Example sentences of "[vb base] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 2 | Now they get knocked down on the roads . |
| 3 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 4 | So you 've given up on the town park idea ? |
| 5 | These are n't just people I 've picked up on the street and thought , Ooh let's show some kooky S&M now ! |
| 6 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 7 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 8 | If anyone feels they 've missed out on the award and that they know someone they fell ought to have been nominated , then they should do so next year . |
| 9 | They 've got in on the shelves there . |
| 10 | ‘ Because New York were giving me hell about employing you and I 've gone out on a limb . |
| 11 | And something 's changed in the intervening time , I mean I know there 's aggravation and times are hard , I know we 've cut back on the hours and the rest , but there 's a lot of things that are n't good . |
| 12 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 13 | They 've cut back on the number of trainees ; they 've cut back on the number of occasionally used specialists ; they 're really down to the bedrock now . |
| 14 | Well , in actual fact we 've cut down on the boxing bit |
| 15 | Can I explain all those booklets that I 've put out on the table ? |
| 16 | THE Tories have fallen back on a quack cure for the economic ills they are forcing upon our country — even higher prescription charges . |
| 17 | Insecure Christian men feeling threatened have fallen back on the Scriptures with authoritarian tunnel vision , while Christian women are learning Greek and Hebrew in order to find a loophole to invalidate this ‘ yoke of bondage ’ . |
| 18 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 19 | This is the first test we have carried out on a garden blower vac . |
| 20 | You no doubt have picked up on the typos etc. but it is sometimes useful to have another ‘ eye ’ . |
| 21 | THOUSANDS of pensioners have missed out on the prosperity brought about by Margaret Thatcher 's administration and remain caught in ‘ massive poverty traps ’ , the conference was told yesterday . |
| 22 | I have got back on the adrenalin and enthusiasm for these first few matches and hopefully in the next six weeks you will see the best of me . ’ |
| 23 | They have washed up on a shingle strand beside a lonely and barely habitable estancia . |
| 24 | The lion 's share of Singapore 's exports is produced by the 3,000-odd foreign companies that have set up on the island . |
| 25 | A TRIO of Cleveland pensioners have set off on the trip of a lifetime to the bulbfields of Holland . |
| 26 | The Football Supporters Association have set out on a project to democratise the game , taking control of the clubs and institutions that so ruthlessly exploit their support . |
| 27 | In the club atmosphere of La Cigale , the spark was always there , the reason why so many have gone out on a limb to should their name from the rooftops , but the Mondays are in danger of slipping into routine . |
| 28 | The others have gone out on the town . |
| 29 | But with falling profits many employers have cut back on the perk . |
| 30 | In the past , too many tunnel schemes have ended up on the surface because of the cost implications . |