Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | While subjects were actually driving around they were required to give risk ratings , this may have caused them to concentrate unusually on the risky situations and think about them to a much greater degree than they would have normally . |
| 3 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 4 | ‘ I got off on the wrong foot , and I 'm never going to get it right now . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm happy ’ , ‘ I 'm settled ’ , ‘ Now I know what it feels like ’ , ‘ I got out on the right side ’ . |
| 6 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 7 | but then on the erm , Saturday , and the , that 's , and then on I say then on the bloody Friday night what happened he fell out the bed I phoned |
| 8 | I came out on the Good Friday and , on the Saturday morning , stitches still in and everything , I got up and thought to myself : ‘ I 'm going to have a smoke ’ . |
| 9 | The cheapest way to go was via Colombo and so I dropped in on the local centre there . |
| 10 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 11 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 12 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 13 | I plonked down on the hard wooden sofa and began musing : was he telling the truth ? |
| 14 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 15 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 16 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 17 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 18 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 19 | I knocked anxiously on the wooden door and waited patiently until the door opened and a small , plump , bearded man greeted me with a cheery hello . |
| 20 | I popped out on the sixth-floor roof and had a cigarette . ’ |
| 21 | At first I managed to get hold of two pictures by Popova , then the thread broke off and , completely by chance , I stumbled back on the right trail . |
| 22 | Yet when I looked back on the last hour or so I could come to only one conclusion . |
| 23 | I lay back on the hot canvas of a recliner and closed my eyes , soaking it in . |
| 24 | I lay back on the empty bed and looked at my watch . |
| 25 | As I lay back on the clean white sheet tucked round the hard mattress of the sick room bed and faded into a temporary oblivion , I thought to myself that perhaps early retirement would be no bad thing to consider after all . |
| 26 | I lay down on the Pennine moors |
| 27 | I think also on the inherent fault situation , I mean when somebody buys a vehicle the vehicle has to be of a standard obviously and if there are problems there then obviously people appreciate the fact that they can go back and this is really the point of dealing with a reputable dealer from the word go . |
| 28 | I think perhaps on the whole people understand that better than they used to . |
| 29 | I leaned back on the young tree that as a sapling had been the Killer . |
| 30 | I said well on the hard shoulder , I said , you ca n't stop nowhere else . |