Example sentences of "we [vb mod] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 Nothing would do but we must go out on the river .
2 We must get off on the right foot . ’
3 We 'll go up on the roof , ’ John said .
4 Then we 'll go out on the road .
5 Give me a moment or two to change my clothes and leave a note for Jules , then we 'll go out on the town . ’
6 And we 'll drop in on the way home to watch a few election results or do you think if I start having a party tomorrow night it 's gon na get out of hand ?
7 Yes , I spoke to Mo Magill , he 'll see us tomorrow morning , we 'll fly up on the shuttle , I do n't know what we 'll get , but … and I 've got a line into St Louis : there 's a thing called the Western Manuscripts collection at UMSL — ghastly word , but they use it themselves , it means University of Missouri-St Louis — that latches on to the papers of operations like CCOAC , and they 've got them .
8 That one we 'll hang up on the
9 We 'll tie up on the island and stretch our legs a bit .
10 Erm so it 's worth doing that we I , cos I was gon na go I was gon na go Thursday and just come back on the Monday but as it is now we 'll go Wednesday and have Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday , Sunday night , so we 'll come back on the Monday .
11 I think we might miss out on the er stimulant today Lynda .
12 We could go up on the railway sidings . ’
13 Then we could go down on the line and wave it , ’ said Peter .
14 Only the score and what we could work out on the piano and what we were able to hear in the opera-house from singers like Mayr .
15 We 'd go out on the town , hit a few cocktail parties , go dancing , and I 'd drop a few hundred quid on a weekend . ’
16 Instead , we shall zoom in on the ‘ new boys ’ two of which are far from new and have not seen the light of day for many a long year .
17 And so erm we did n't wan na put them off and I like to be here because erm Bob likes to go on the Moor as well , so we shall go out on the Moor with the dog a couple of times
18 ‘ We made a pact , that even if we split up , we would meet up on the bridge again one day .
19 So then you we can tighten in on the site to not only a place actually on the site but how far down they came from as well .
20 ‘ He is being given rations of hay which will slowly be increased and hopefully we can cut down on the drugs .
21 When we have breakfast , on the 8th floor , we can look down on the river , and watch all the river traffic , including large passenger vessels , big merchant ships belching smoke , strings of wooden barges , and big and small old-fashioned junks , which look as if they have been sailing for a 100 years at least .
22 Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 .
23 We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here .
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