Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [to-vb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's true that the show has to go on but if such behaviour caught on I 'd be bound to go on and say , ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , so-and-so is n't coming ’ because they not only want to appear on the show , they want to produce it as well ! ’ |
| 2 | A leader can only achieve results through other people and in doing so needs to draw on a range of different styles such as Directive ( see page 53 ) , Consultative ( see page 38 ) , Collaborative ( see page 32 ) , and Delegation ( see page 49 ) . |
| 3 | A lot of the best-looking Waafs on the station had acquired Australian boyfriends , and two of the Met girls had recently married them and were impatiently waiting to get on the ship for Aussie-land to join their husbands . |
| 4 | Attention has hitherto tended to concentrate on the significance of the higher ranks , for both the Kent and South Wales coalfields show successive zones progressing to anthracite grade . |
| 5 | Watkin would have pride of place as St George while Ranulf the rat-catcher eagerly agreed to put on a costume and act the role of the dragon . |
| 6 | Very frequently counsel will only begin to prepare on the night before the case is to be heard and will only meet with the client on the morning of the hearing . |
| 7 | The 12-strong board of governors meets on Thursday , and although most have diplomatically refused to comment on the row , estimates are that in the absence of any further evidence against Mr Birt in the next few days , he will survive any vote on his future . |
| 8 | The employer is only allowed to discriminate on the basis of personal merit and suitability for the job . |
| 9 | I thought we both looked pretty good : rich enough to have all the trappings , oiky enough to want to come on an Action Man course . |
| 10 | But look at it this way ; if we give them the exclusive we only have to go on the merry-go-round once . |
| 11 | Er then to er put er against the background as the District Council last last week were being told our budget will cost us er to er accidents and of course what this exercise would cost us , three hundred and fifty thousand is the amount very close that some of you just want to spend on the doing traffic calming over the next year year . |
| 12 | If you just want to work on the length of pipe between the cistern and the taps , shut the gatevalve first ( if there is one ) opening the taps will drain the pipe . |
| 13 | All three landing gear legs were torn off shortly after ground impact and the aircraft finally came to rest on the belly of the fuselage . |
| 14 | I 'm just going to comment on the lady over there . |
| 15 | I 've just got to put on a swimsuit , ’ she muttered , taking a nervous step backwards . |
| 16 | The one where you are forced to have a group photo of the three acts you have separately promised to put on the cover that week |
| 17 | I 've actually seen them only once — Lawrence and I wandered in there one morning– the torch beam just happened to fall on a clutch of them sitting tight on the wall , right by my ear . |
| 18 | So you 'll just have to hang on a bit . |
| 19 | They 'll just have to hang on a minute , . |
| 20 | The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables . |
| 21 | ‘ Just try to stay on the ball in future , ’ I told him . |
| 22 | Hundreds of protestors have already started to converge on the area around Horton General Hospital . |
| 23 | You can spend practice setting-up the bike rather than just trying to get on the pace . ’ |
| 24 | for the sake of , for the sake of a few bands that we do , I mean most of the bands on the local level are used to playing in pubs so they just had to play on the floor anyway and the rest of it |
| 25 | They had only just managed to get on the vessel in time . |
| 26 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 27 | ‘ I desperately wanted to go on the circuit — I still find the life terrifically exciting . |
| 28 | At least financial agencies have some pressure to provide funds at competitive rates , and builders to guard against pricing themselves out of the market , but landowners just have to sit on the land until they get the price they demand . |
| 29 | Duncan Shearer just failed to get on the end of the youngster 's cross . |
| 30 | Commentators still tend to remark on the informality of industrial tribunal procedure ( Farmer , 1974 ; Walker , 1985 ) , but the industrial tribunal 's rules of procedure are no longer informal , and it has become an adversarial forum ( Dickens et al. , 1985 ; Genn and Genn , 1989 ) . |