Example sentences of "[vb infin] [vb pp] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 2 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 3 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 4 | As you will have heard perhaps on the radio or TV the Royal Bank of Scotland is to reduce its staff by 3,500 over about three years , mostly by natural wastage . |
| 5 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 6 | A different allocation of resources might also have produced growth , but diverting them merely to the home market would have substituted only on the assumption that resources were already being fully utilised there . |
| 7 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 8 | A tidy desk and behind it a man who might have come in on the Saturday afternoon for extra work . |
| 9 | If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’ |
| 10 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 11 | For Jason , he must have done well on the video excercise , he 's just been told he can follow in his father 's footsteps and join West Mercia Police . |
| 12 | Old Gustav may still have some old-time socialist ideals about the rights of man , but the general feeling is that Manfred would have done well on the faculty at Belsen . ’ |
| 13 | But England could have missed out on the youngster if he had chosen the country of his father 's birth . |
| 14 | On 11 November 1918 bells and cheers rang out all over France on Armistice morning , and Modigliani can not have missed out on the celebrations . |
| 15 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |
| 16 | We may have zeroed in on the difference , but so what ? |
| 17 | Toni gets to work ALEC GILROY may have walked out on the Rovers Return , but 16-year-old Toni Canning is more than ready to take over from Britain 's favourite landlord . |
| 18 | He would n't have walked out on the family . |
| 19 | It seems possible that such a latter unit may well have served briefly on the island at this time , and been involved in this particular combat . |
| 20 | He thought he must have passed out on the grass verge . |
| 21 | Speaking from Sierra Leone , Moniba claimed that under the Constitution he should have taken over on the death of Doe in September , and he called on Sawyer 's interim government to step down . |
| 22 | I could have stood there on the hillside and quoted the whole of Mark Antony 's speech in modern everyday English from beginning to end . |
| 23 | David Damiani set off from here with his family in April 1948 , and it was not difficult to see how clearly the old factory and the church above the city must have stood out on the horizon as the Argentina slipped past the tide bar and steamed for Beirut . |
| 24 | ‘ Or you could have kept down on the platform , ’ Ace added . |
| 25 | If you 're not one of the 3.5 million who have already contracted out you will have lost out on the chance to back date for up to two years the National Insurance Contributions rebate plus the extra 2 per cent ‘ bribe ’ . |
| 26 | Some of them evidently lacked a stem , and must have lain loosely on the bottom . |
| 27 | These must have lain freely on the surface of the sediment . |
| 28 | Er with this instruction , it will get picked up on the quality |
| 29 | ‘ We wholeheartedly support pedestrianisation but I am concerned that our buses could get bottled up on the ringroad , ’ he said . |
| 30 | So perhaps four and a half hours , if we do n't get held up on the M twenty five , four and a half hours would do so that , if we leave here at two , we could be there , you know , well by seven . |