Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among a series of films designed to cash in on the success of Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , for example , was Seth Holt 's The Nanny ( 1965 ) , made with the visual flair of his earlier Hammer picture , Taste of Fear ( 1961 ) , and telling the powerful tale of two sisters , both dependent in their own way on the woman who brought them up , who pay no attention to the declarations of their son and nephew that it was nanny who killed his sister and now wants to kill him . |
| 2 | However , things are apparently still up in the air and OEMs are expected to gang up on the doorstep to get their two cents in . |
| 3 | In that case , our malevolent might have decided to wait around on the off-chance that he would go to the kitchen or bathroom . |
| 4 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 5 | By eschewing the obvious solution of a differential dividend payment , the group has had to fall back on the option of endowing the chemicals company with additional cash by way of a rights issue from Zeneca . |
| 6 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 7 | Cicely Hamilton commented in the course of a debate with G. K. Chesterton at Queen 's Hall in 1919 : ‘ Do you suppose that forty or fifty years ago a woman would have dared to stand up on a platform and say , without the slightest shame , that she was over thirty and unmarried ? |
| 8 | This camera is being used to crack down on a crime explosion that 's made victims of people like 91 year old Beatrice Wakefield , burgled of her savings as she sat in the garden . |
| 9 | Used to walk around on a camel 's hump . ’ |
| 10 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 11 | But when I enquired about the location of the Waaf Site , I was told to climb back on the wagon . |
| 12 | Jakki had just returned from an idyllic holiday in America ( more of which in a moment ) when she was told to get back on a plane because the Material girl had finally agreed to give an interview on Radio One . |
| 13 | S so th th there 's a variety of different skills involved in there , the the mechanical the till and the knowing what to do with cheques , credit cards , er , have you got a sense of when you 've got to check up on a card , or something like that . |
| 14 | You 've got to push down on the bike to get your seating right so when you 're on the throttle it 's all hooked up together . |
| 15 | Yeah , they 've been told to cut down on the spending . |
| 16 | Terry Venables has been keen on the 23-year-old for months and armed with over £2million from the Stewart sale , is set to move in on the £1.2m-rated player . |
| 17 | Co-ordinated Land and Estates , which bought the Milngavie course from Stakis for an undisclosed sum last year , believe Dougalston , only minutes from Glasgow city centre and within easy reach of Glasgow Airport , is ideally placed to cash in on the golfing tourists . |
| 18 | Ken played Julius Caesar in a picture that , with no apologies , was intended to cash in on the fame of the Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton fiasco of the previous year . |
| 19 | The two understudies were asked to come back on the Friday afternoon , when there was going to be a complete run of the play for the producers and Malcolm Harris . |
| 20 | The work was not easy — manufacturers , for example , sometimes had to be asked to ease off on an item of plant in a fairly advanced state of completion ( but for which the site was not yet prepared or the boiler installation delayed ) to press on with others at an earlier stage of manufacture which could be installed earlier . |
| 21 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 22 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 23 | At one extreme , the editors could be given total licence to film anything they liked and to show the House in their own way ( as when covering a football match , or as in some American state legislatures where camera and microphone men are even allowed to wander around on the floor of the House ) . |
| 24 | B While the legends of the First Age are a ‘ calque ’ , then , their resemblance to a known pattern directs us primarily to difference from that pattern ; the elvishness of the elves is meant to reflect back on the humanity of man . |
| 25 | Despite an obvious desire to hold out against its bigger competitors , Phillips have been forced to give in on the issue of increased buyers ' premium . |
| 26 | that people are are forced to live in the flats , and are forced to live in on the minimum |
| 27 | Arriving in Cyprus ahead of Othello , an understandably nervous Desdemona is forced to hang around on the quay and , in an effortful charade of lightheartedness , swap bawdy banter with Iago and company . |
| 28 | All teams , though , have much ground to make up on the Samoans , who in the course of their four ties at the weekend , scored 23 tries . |
| 29 | The authorities in Hainan in southern China have begun to crack down on the hunting , selling and buying of protected animals in the province . |
| 30 | SINCE artworks began to flood out of China in the early 1980s — mostly smuggled by sea to Macao or Hong Kong — extraordinary rarities , hitherto unknown in the West , have begun to turn up on the market . |