Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] on the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 2 | Whether doctors should concentrate solely on the clinical aspects of general practice or act in a wider capacity to tackle the underlying causes of ill health is a subject often discussed . |
| 3 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 4 | They can look back on the last years they spent together as some of the best in their whole lives . |
| 5 | It has just announced special tools which will allow developers to write products for the unlaunched Windows NT which can run immediately on the new Windows 3.1 . |
| 6 | The top 20 scorers from last season will miss out on the early stages of the title chase , which begins at Stoke on Saturday night . |
| 7 | He warned that any more favourable rate would have inflationary consequences which would cause the Bundesbank to " step hard on the monetary brakes " . |
| 8 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 9 | Well , I think if you see a good idea , you want to share it , and I think anything that we can do that will cut down on the terrible casualties and the deaths on our roads of , particularly of children , we must do it . |
| 10 | Leaks from Clinton 's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn . |
| 11 | Often house paints need to be delivered to building sites so Taubmans and Cromadex products can also go out on the same vans . |
| 12 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 13 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 14 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 15 | The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America . |