Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late . |
| 2 | In an attempt to cash in on the UK corporate market 's growing appetite for high speed personal computer graphics , NEC Corp has introduced its Image Series of desktops , launched in the US in February ( CI No 2,116 ) . |
| 3 | John Matthias brought the filly with a customary late surge to get up on the line to beat Zadracarta , the Canadian challenger , a head . |
| 4 | This permits the ring to move down on the line under greater tension , and up on the opposite side which would be on the outside of a turn . |
| 5 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 6 | Tim Robbins , it was rumoured , might wish his American publicist to sit in on the conversation . |
| 7 | I opened the shuttered window to look out on a countryside blanketed in snow . |
| 8 | And the RUC is urging for public help to clamp down on the level of incidents throughout the province . |
| 9 | A FAST-TRACK law to clamp down on the carrying of knives in Scotland is to be backed by the Government . |
| 10 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 11 | The political consequences are first increasing loss of control and crumbling of the party apparatus , next the state 's need to fall back on the army and police to preserve its own existence , public order and , it claims , the chance of imposing painful economic reforms . |
| 12 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 13 | no room to walk around on a train |
| 14 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 15 | He felt something like battle-fatigue — a great desire to lie down on the ground with his hands over his ears and take no further part in the war . |
| 16 | It was my job to check up on the flock every morning and on Sundays Uncle Joe would come to the farm . |
| 17 | Lord Aldington , ex-chairman of Sun Alliance Insurance , has told the jury he is the victim of a campaign of harassment by Mr Watts who was annoyed by the company 's failure to pay out on the death of his brother-in-law . |
| 18 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 19 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 20 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |
| 21 | In fact , Kitty was the only one of the three who had enough time off during the day to help out on the barrow , but as she never got up until the sun rose and slipped away long before it had set , she still was n't what Granpa would have called an asset . |
| 22 | Many pilots make use of a VOR station to let down on an aerodrome where there is no published or approved procedure . |
| 23 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |
| 24 | ‘ We would have preferred an earlier chance to get back on the rails , ’ admitted Thompson , whose side 's defeat ended a run of six consecutive wins . |
| 25 | It 's a rather special feeling to stretch out on the bank , with a cup of coffee warming chilled fingers , and to know six months of the season is before you . |
| 26 | TO BE sure of getting value for money in rugby books it is usually good policy to lash out on a yearbook or an expensive work of reference . |
| 27 | After repeated attempts to bring the shadow Cabinet around to his opposition to the ‘ permanent deflation and lack of democracy ’ implied in the Maastricht Treaty , Mr Gould resigned from the shadow Cabinet on 27 September 1992 , saying that his wish to speak out on the Maastricht Treaty was incompatible with the burden of collective responsibility , and claiming that over one hundred Labour MPs supported his position . |
| 28 | Since your viewfinder picture is not in colour ( unless you are one of the lucky ones who have a camcorder with a colour viewfinder to bring along on a shoot ) , you have a rely on your camcorder 's white balance system to get the colour-balancing right for you — and it probably will . |
| 29 | Responding to Labour criticism of the Government 's failure to implement a manifesto pledge on legislation to crack down on the sale and carrying of knives , Lord Fraser said ministers would like to act on this at an early opportunity . |
| 30 | ‘ Do n't you know it 's an offence to lie down on the King 's highway and make yourself a danger to passing traffic ? ’ |