Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [vb pp] on [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently Ziegfeld spied on rehearsals by watching through a peephole in the wall . |
| 2 | The discussion up to now has focused on employment as our index . |
| 3 | And it 's the sort of the card the jury may well have seen on television in dramas . |
| 4 | We might as well have gone on holiday to the Sahara Desert . ’ |
| 5 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 6 | Obviously you will save on heating bills , petrol , and if you book in all-inclusive holiday , on what you would otherwise have spent on food at home . |
| 7 | Order twen er , rule twenty , eight , four provides that when a party is entitled to costs , and that of course is the case of the plaintiffs , a , fails without good reason to commence or conduct proceedings for the taxation of those costs in accordance with this order or any direction or b , delays lodging a bill of costs for taxation , the taxing office may one , disallow already part of the costs of taxation that he would otherwise would warn about the party and two , after taking into account all the circumstances , including any prejudice suffered by any other party as result of such failure or delay as the case maybe , and any additional interest payable under section seventeen of the judgements act because of the failure or delay , allow the party so entitled less than the amount he would otherwise have allowed on taxation of the bill are wholly disallowed the costs , his provision for an appeal to allow to the judge and chambers and that is the way the matter is coming before |
| 8 | Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time . |
| 9 | Realise that we should never have gone on holiday with Jack and Kate , but with Harry and Chrissie and their child . |
| 10 | Richard 's brothers and sisters would certainly have passed on tales of quiet desperation : but by the time he was seven or eight , things were easier . |
| 11 | Technical and financial improvement saw the virtual elimination of live performances ( regretted by some people ) ; immeasurable increases in the quality of settings , costumes and production generally ; the commissioning of plays written specifically for TV ( much encouraged by Sidney Newman 's ITV ‘ Armchair Theatre ’ in the 1960s and BBC series such as ‘ Play for Today ’ and ‘ The Wednesday Play ’ ) ; and the discovery , with the Forsyte Saga , that audiences would happily get hooked on serialization of literary classics ( and not-so-classics ) . |
| 12 | Unemployment was proving to be an intractable problem ; the successful Russian Revolution was not long passed , and although the police were controlling mass demonstrations of the unemployed , using violence on occasion , they too had gone on strike in August 1918 . |