Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 2 | Mr , do you want to come back on the point made on the other side of the room about your arbitrary selection of building rates ? |
| 3 | It 's 7pm and you ca n't wait to go out on the town . |
| 4 | What I 'd like to do is to help them to see that they do n't need to give up on the computer , that they can actually be the master of it , although of course I do n't I 'm not suggesting that they become programmers — that would be to abdicate their function in another way — but certainly they can understand it , and I think of course it keeps coming back to this issue over and over again , an issue about education . |
| 5 | When she dislocated a shoulder while chasing a burglar , and was out of action for another four months , she could n't wait to get back on the beat again . |
| 6 | You can choose to drive out on the Friday and back on the Sunday , so giving yourself eight days ' skiing rather than six if you fly . |
| 7 | It 's not something the average student would expect to come up on the sylabus and Katharine 's still recovering from the shock . |
| 8 | ‘ Would you like to sit out on the patio ? ’ |
| 9 | Would n't I like to curl up on the sofa ? — and mostly I enjoyed the sweaty heaving pleasures of the British Legion do , where the guests galumphed and the men got drunk and waved bottles around — and one thing I noticed through all the ranks of society , no matter what the background , or the income , or the form the party took , was that as the evening wore on women would begin to look pained and patient and longed to get home , but did n't like to say so for fear of being accused of ruining the evening 's fun . |
| 10 | I 'd like to pick up on a point that er that Roy Donson made also right at the outset of of the discussion and that was that there 's no evidence that local authorities have have faced pressure for development in the countryside . |
| 11 | I 'd just really like to pick up on the employment argument . |
| 12 | More to the point , it would cost more to cancel Concorde than the relatively paltry £17 million it would cost to go back on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 13 | The reforms could also mean that the most experienced specialist officers , such as police divers , would have to go back on the beat . |
| 14 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 15 | In case you think I am exaggerating I will try to put down on the page the conversation we held this morning , he in his warm office with his eighteenth century paperweight and leggy shit of a secretary and I in a dirty glass-doored box that might have been entered in an exhibition of unusual refrigerators . |
| 16 | Her thoughts were still so full of Mo : she thought that if she tried to say anything , she would have to lie down on the bed and howl . |
| 17 | ‘ Perhaps , my dear fellow , since you 're some sort of detective , you 'd try to get through on the telephone to the Carabinieri . |
| 18 | Then , when word got out that Hurley again had a drawerful of money to pay for information , everybody in Beirut would try to get in on the act , making things up if they had to . |
| 19 | He talked about the town , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how he had never before been to this part of the country , how one day soon he must try to get out on the moor . |
| 20 | what time do you have to get up on a Sunday morning ? |
| 21 | I am known as Sideways Reynolds and I might have to cut back on the speed on the corners . |
| 22 | What will tend to happen is for example , erm , in my section to deal with public courses , I would have information about the venues that I 'm going to use this year , I would have information about the mailing lists I 'm going to use , and information about the mailing lists of my office I 'm going to use , I would have prospects that I 'm going to call , you know , it 's all stuff that I would tend to plan out on a pad of paper and then insert into the particular data section , and refer to as I need to . |
| 23 | How does she manage to go out on a training run the same day as she has run a major marathon when most other competitors are sitting with their feet up savouring the rest ? |
| 24 | ‘ It was one of the few bits of information we did manage to pick up on the grapevine . |
| 25 | The only point of Mr Baker 's tests that I can divine is that they will serve to check up on the teachers . |
| 26 | Depending on what we get out of him , I may want to drop in on the husband again . " |
| 27 | But he can not afford to sit back on the basis that Everton are too big a club to go down . |
| 28 | Because he 'd missed out on higher education , and because he could seldom afford to go out on the town with the other players , he spent his evenings listening to music and devouring the classics . |
| 29 | Right , the problem is that I ca n't seem to get through on the telephone , I phoned and her secretary came back and said you 've to phone and she gave me a guy 's name like and I got a number for him so I phoned it , ah he works in our Edinburgh office I phoned the Edinburgh office . |
| 30 | But it would take many years before Nordhausen became a green town , many years before it could even start to ease back on the pollution it coughed on to its inhabitants and the surrounds in which they existed . |