Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Terry and I tried to cut back on the silly stories by not doing anything at all , but then they attacked the fact that we were n't doing anything , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 3 | WHEN THE Generating Board had tired of its investigations in the Dorset hinterland and its tussles with the Cornish protesters , it decided to fall back on the one site in the West Country where it felt confident it could successfully build the second British Pressurized Water Reactor . |
| 4 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 5 | So , paradoxically , private enterprise in its most unrestricted and anarchic period tended to fall back on the only available models of large-scale management , the military and bureaucratic . |
| 6 | Yet within Whitehall there was a marked reluctance to accept the implications behind such evidence ; officials tended to fall back on the convenient explanation that the ‘ problem evacuees ’ revealed in September 1939 were a product of poor-quality home life among some sections of the working class rather than highly exaggerated cultural differences or poverty . |
| 7 | Then hearing the padlock rattle , hurried to lie down on the makeshift bed again . |