Example sentences of "[subord] [v-ing] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is it necessarily fatal if you give notice to terminate your contract and work that notice out , rather than walking out on the spot . |
| 2 | Do you think perhaps the problem is that , through no fault of their own , they spend far too much time in the police station doing other work perhaps , than going out on the beat ? |
| 3 | It 's much better than standin' out on the cobbles like we used ter do . |
| 4 | Freud 's hypotheses are not upheld : if the child is father to the man it is for reasons other than missing out on the breast and a too early acquaintance with the potty . |
| 5 | Senior ministers and officials are urgently considering cutting back on the number of nuclear warheads carried by Britain 's powerful submarines . |
| 6 | Lady Bell wrote of women in Middlesbrough in 1907 being ‘ curiously devoid of public spirit or interest in outside affairs ’ , and some 40 years later , Slater and Woodside described their female respondents as looking out on the world from their homes ‘ as from a beleaguered fortress ’ . |
| 7 | As well as cashing in on the publicity , Hughes hoped the judge might be persuaded to grant Mitchum parole or postpone his jail term — if it came to that — until he had finished the film . |