Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pron] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should out-point them on the rough stuff , too , for the Range Rover is still king of the wild frontiers . |
| 2 | Buchanan 's Triangles clubmate Mark Tosh pushed hard to try and catch him on the five-mile run but the Derry man won in a time of 1.28.52 . |
| 3 | We read our lines together for the first time — but never as we would do them on the actual recording . |
| 4 | Now they will be scared rigid of stepping up and saying anything which could land them on the same mat upon which Lamb was so unfairly punished at Lord 's yesterday . |
| 5 | It simply did not , and does not , offer a framework on which to hang a convincing story … the geographer , when he analyses the material properties of the man-environment systems , must base himself on the central functions of that system , rather than on the traditional divisions of physical geography . |
| 6 | And at once I could smell it on the tied-on head-cushion — that same elusive , old-fashioned perfume of the towel , of the glove . |
| 7 | Will I do it on the other side ? |
| 8 | We could do it on the National Health . |
| 9 | There are a whole lot of players who can go out there and knock balls in all over the place , score wonderful great big one four sevens and centuries and things of this nature , but what makes the , the good player an excellent player , is the player who can do it on the big occasion . |
| 10 | we want it done in both directions , there 's no way you can do it on the main line |
| 11 | If you need any further information you can contact me on the above telephone number after 4 p.m. most days . |
| 12 | I may see you on the same plane . ’ |
| 13 | From Ainhoa the only road that will keep you on the French side of the Pyrenees runs more or less north-east , back towards Espelette . |
| 14 | She would run around her pen at such speed that the centrifugal force would keep her on the vertical walls like a Wall of Death rider . |
| 15 | Soon it will be Pesach and I think this year I will celebrate it on the correct date . |
| 16 | There are peel-off labels for the long holiday dates , something with which you can amuse yourself on the next bank holiday . |
| 17 | At first we could n't see anything on the white backing but then Eadred brought across a candle , held it near the page , not quite close enough to scorch , and sea-green writing began to appear . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll meet you on the second floor . |
| 19 | We 'd better measure it on the other wall , had n't we ? |
| 20 | Max told me that Smith would meet us on the following Monday , which would have meant waiting around for five days . |
| 21 | She 'll set us on the right track . ’ |
| 22 | Now making these points to and then to go backwards still about what we 've been talking about and that is it 's the same with the opera and what you were saying about Harry Enfield and everything else , that you can an and Billy Connolly , you can bring certain groups of people into areas where they would n't previously have been , but you will not necessarily take them on the next leaf so for example , this is all gon na sound snobby and I 'm sorry but you know I mean a lot of people like Gilbert and Sullivan for example , but will not move on to Bizet or whatever it is and will never do that and I mean I have a problem with that I mean it , to me it 's not we 're not it 's just reality , but we have to understand that I mean we have to understand that in the context of sponsorship |
| 23 | Erm y'know even if it takes them quite a while to fill out y'know go through all eighty items y'know which could be erm y'know kind of , well depending how quickly they work y'know , sort of half an hour or something but if you if you get some er er a sort of type-written draft run off um I du n no , next Tuesday 's quite a quite a short deadline but maybe the Tuesday after that er we can try them on the first years if you like ? |
| 24 | ‘ They wo n't have regular fashion articles , but might have something on the political significance of hemlines . ’ |
| 25 | The other one , could I just correct something on the last line of er , comment at the bottom of the , bottom of page two . |
| 26 | We did n't have one on the last play . |
| 27 | Oh ok , I 'll have it on the little table , but I want you to do it , not me . |
| 28 | She was on about general conversation , you should have it on the whole time . |
| 29 | To save time , he decided to take the bicycle with him across the fields so that he could ride it on the smoother sections . |
| 30 | According to the Court of Appeal in Tagro v Cafane this requires the valuer to assume that he can sell it on the open market to a willing buyer , and in so doing to ignore any covenant against assignment which restricts alienation of the landlord 's interest . |