Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 2 | French masons were brought in to work on the glorified hunting lodge of Falkland in Fife until it came to resemble a French Renaissance palace in miniature , with the courtyard 's south range richly decorated with Scots thistles , French fleurs-de-lis and pictorial medallions . |
| 3 | Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that . |
| 4 | It was like coming in to land on the wrinkled hide of some sleeping behemoth . |
| 5 | When it got within spitting distance of Mafouz , who was now standing , arms loosely apart , mouth open , as if hypnotized by the thing 's movements , it did a sharp turn to the left , bounced along horizontally for a few yards , and then snarled up and down to land on the unfortunate boy 's head . |
| 6 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 7 | Sit comfortably at the machine and bring the console over to sit on the front bed . |
| 8 | Normally , the owner must take the cassette out of the machine by hand , and flip it over to record on the other side . |
| 9 | If he thought something interesting , he would desert what he was doing and amble off to meditate on the new idea , muttering to himself as he walked . |
| 10 | As early as 1985 the Better Health Commission was set up to report on the current health status of the Australian population and to identify underlying health problems and strategies for dealing with them . |
| 11 | It was envisaged that teachers ' centres would be set up based on the three colleges and that these would combine in-service course work with active experimentation on new approaches . |
| 12 | Even if everyone else is having a good time you tend to end up focusing on the one ASSHOLE ! |
| 13 | Two key objectives : establishing a network and investigator bringing himself up to speed on the French plastic cards and payment systems market . |
| 14 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 15 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 16 | She did see the yachtsman as she trekked back to start on the long walk home , and she went towards him . |
| 17 | Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain . |
| 18 | Holland gained few glimpses of goal after that , although Taffarel failed to hold a hard low centre from Berghuis eight minutes before half-time and was fortunate that no Dutchman was around to pounce on the loose ball . |
| 19 | But mainly she kept on bodyboarding on the quieter waves between Sunset and Backyards , going to parties , hanging out at the Sugar Bar , and talking to her friends on the telephone . |
| 20 | Berkeley in Gloucestershire is about to appear on the nuclear map . |
| 21 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever : it expects to invite 50 to 75 user groups worldwide to participate , get 35 to 50 of them actually involved and circulate 10,000 multiple-choice questionnaires in six languages : English , French , German , Spanish , Chinese and Japanese ; it is now trying to figure out how to get feedback from the non-industrial nations ; results will probably appear in Rome in early December . |
| 22 | X/Open Co Ltd is about to embark on the largest Xtra process ever . |
| 23 | The wolf was about to descend on the little pigs . |
| 24 | Anything else ? because I 'm a , I 'm about to quit on the monthly calendar cards and monthly planning . |
| 25 | Potentially an even bigger bombshell is about to burst on the vexed question of pension rights . |
| 26 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 27 | whether it 's Hornsey Lane he is about to enter on the other side of Highgate Hill , or whether he has confused Highgate Hill with Highgate West Hill once again ; |
| 28 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |