Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the process we may fall back on an idealized view of our own society , or take our cue from generalized impressions of ‘ Western ’ experience . |
| 2 | Curiously enough , it appears that there is no question at all which fits the adjective of a sentence like ( 59 ) closely , so that one must fall back on a metalinguistic one such as ( 60 ) : ( 59 ) the sharks remain dangerous ( 60 ) what did you say about the sharks ? 5.7 Since the property of the postverbal is one which the speaker deliberately chooses to clothe in the guise of an adjective rather than an adverb , it must , as we have already remarked , be one which is capable of being ascribed to the referential locus of the subject phrase . |
| 3 | It is for these reasons that Woolwich is not enabled or required to seek its remedy through the statutory framework , but must fall back on the common law . |
| 4 | Their main argument is that the World Cup should move around on a rotational basis , but having staged the first three tournaments , other countries have some catching up to do before it returns to these shores . |
| 5 | ‘ Must cut down on the bloody fags , ’ he told himself . |
| 6 | You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old ( Ptolemaic ) cosmology . |
| 7 | We must get off on the right foot . ’ |
| 8 | And , needless now perhaps to say , such situations should mount up on a progressive scale so that they make an ongoing story . |
| 9 | Dan 's questions were annoying Kate and if he was n't careful he just might end up on the receiving end of her tongue . |
| 10 | And they 'll get back on a winning streak by putting the ‘ Ell back in Elland Road — just like it was in the glory days of super manager Don Revie and hard-man skipper Billy Bremner . |
| 11 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 12 | The slow version has the most depth , and maybe it 'll turn up on a 12-inch some day , but I really opted for the fast one , because it seemed a really nice way to start the album . ’ |
| 13 | I say , I 'll pop in on the old . |
| 14 | Last month I expressed the hope that , as the autocratic system of government in South Africa is replaced by a more democratic one , this might rub off on the new rugby bureaucracy . |
| 15 | At worst , one could fall back on the immediate family of brothers and cousins to protect the individual , if only by helping to pay up to meet the demands of the tax collector . |
| 16 | From the third floor offices of the NME you could gaze down on the clueless hordes below . |
| 17 | I 'd ease up on the hard stuff if I were you . |
| 18 | You could splash out on a kingsize Strata waterbed costing around £2,800 . |
| 19 | The church used to talk about the ‘ natural law ’ and if that was in full force you 'd get up on every good-looking woman within sight . |
| 20 | I 'd come out on the simple camera-fetching errand without the complete zipped pouch of gadgets but I did have with me the belt holding my knife and the multi-purpose survival tool , and on the back of that tool there was a mirror . |
| 21 | ‘ Are n't you and Charles due to go off on holiday soon ? ’ she queried , when tea and biscuits were duly dispensed to Lucy and she could sit down on a wicker-backed chair and sip her own . |
| 22 | Leaks from Clinton 's team suggest Democrats may clamp down on the massive amounts executives can earn . |
| 23 | Watford is erm when you used to come out on the old |
| 24 | She used to ride over on a white mare she borrowed and tether it somewhere over there by that tree . ’ |
| 25 | I shall home in on the social action programme and the declaration on racism and xenophobia , which was separate from the main treaty , but was signed at Maastricht . |
| 26 | Fearing that Greece and Turkey would end up on the other side of that iron curtain the American President Truman declared that their security was vital to the Western powers and began a substantial programme of aid . |
| 27 | trying to turn the tables again so that he would stop feeling uncomfortable and Starke would go back on the defensive . |
| 28 | Norwood-born , Nick was our tenacious , skilful and hard-running midfield man , ( though occasionally he would play out on the right wing for us ) who had first caught the eye of Malcolm Allison . |
| 29 | Although no note awaited her on the doorstep , no letter came and there were no phone calls , Anna knew the cat woman would come back on the following evening . |
| 30 | ‘ It is , of course , no accident , ’ he said out loud , testing to see if the words would come out on a printed page in a bound volume , ‘ that redundant theological speculation about the death of God should run parallel with an equally tedious literary preoccupation with the death of the novel . ’ |