Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of time , I intend to concentrate on the European dimension . |
| 2 | I intend to concentrate on the two subjects of today 's debate , education and employment . |
| 3 | Look , seriously , do I need to get on the next train back to Liverpool Street and go and find her ? ’ |
| 4 | Now , however , I want to concentrate on the 15 years during which the two of them lived and worked together , and Pollock made a bid to change the course of what was then thought of as modern art . |
| 5 | So was Malta 's Harmony I while working on the Kharg-Sirri shuttle , a run on which Iraqi aircraft particularly concentrated . |
| 6 | I enjoy walking on the common land myself , but if I 'm willing to make the sacrifice , why are n't you ? ’ |
| 7 | I guessed I had no more than four minutes before he got back to base , so I began to count on the old one-and-one , two-and-two , and so on principle in order to concentrate on the job in hand without looking at my watch . |
| 8 | I remember running on the rolling lawns of Kikuyu grass before dinner , the night noises of the exceptionally vocal African insect life striking up as it quickly grew dark , night unrolling from the ground upwards ; bullfrogs — in fact all manner of rana and bufo-frogs the size of a pair of roiled-up rugby socks , toads with great horned eyebrows , and tiny , reddish , darting amphibians , starting to howl , shriek , growl , and purr , a backdrop to our dinner on the terrace to which we have been summoned by the stirring , thrilling , beating of a gong hung from a pair of tusks . |
| 9 | The headmaster was getting a little too close to the bone for my liking , so I decided to go on the defensive . |
| 10 | As I was ushered into Mark Shand 's spacious flat in South Kensington I saw lying on the living table a book called Living Dangerously . |
| 11 | I chose to write on the Holy Spirit myself for a very definite reason . |
| 12 | ‘ Why , oh why , do I get mispatterning on the second side of my jumper ? |
| 13 | And the two things that I had noticed on the first day were still left hanging there … |
| 14 | Until now , I had looked on the legendary Frankenstein as a sort of piece-meal dabbler in cadavers , a small-time crank who haunted crypts and graves for mismatched eyes and hands . |
| 15 | But I had left on the five o'clock train . ’ |
| 16 | Well to keep his rope tight , I had to pull on the other , and the other chap would jerk me back . |
| 17 | Only if none of these targets is available will I open fire on the big battalions with cannon . |
| 18 | Faith , her boyfriend and I waited to ride on the same flight as the box . |
| 19 | I 've turned on the other tape there . |
| 20 | But the effect I 've had on the straight world , the fact that they come to me and they feel comfortable , half knowing that maybe I 've been involved in … what to them is alternative sexuality , is a positive thing . ’ |
| 21 | There 's actually another complaint this morning I 've had on the first floor of G P House . |
| 22 | So for the past year , I 've sat on the Labour Party Trade Union Review Group , a working party set up in the heat of an election defeat , to defuse a potentially damaging row about the strange phenomenon in the party of Labour . |
| 23 | Once I 've settled on the right composition , I invite the sitter back and start serious drawings . |
| 24 | This month I 've concentrated on the standard gauge punchcard models , but there are also finegauge and chunky models . |
| 25 | Well you see in an ideal situation of the six people I 've got on the second list there 's better quality people there but they 've got absolutely zero experience but we 're not the sort of company who can take these people on and train them really |
| 26 | That second night in the porch was enough and I resolved to move on the following day , whatever happened . |
| 27 | The SAD paper set out a number of options — I wish to concentrate on the fourth . |
| 28 | I need to come on the pink potty , I need a |
| 29 | Is the Leader of the House aware that , in the past four days , since we returned from the Christmas recess , I have heard more from Conservative Members about Labour party policy than I have heard on the national executive committee in 12 months ? |
| 30 | I have reported on the illegal farming to the CO , and now it 's the turn of the Operations Information Officer . |