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Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.

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1	Unlike GM , the young company had no car-making base to fall back on , so it started afresh .
2	They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late .
3	Encouraging each governor to adopt a class and giving them an opportunity to report back on their visits helps governors to have a sense of purpose and enables them to frame general reports and LEA/DES regulations in the context of their adopted classes and children .
4	The first is a request for the pleasure of their company while the second implies slight patronage , and highlights their inability to go out on their own and their need now to be ‘ taken ’ .
5	She made the decision to go out on her own because she wanted more freedom to pursue her many interests .
6	We had centuries of contacts to fall back on .
7	To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings .
8	The transition back to work is easier , however , if individuals have worked previously and have skills to fall back on .
9	She , she was off , off sick and er so for the last six months I did sister 's duties which was very useful because er it , it , it gave me that little bit of independence , working on my own whereas before you 'd always got either the staff nurse or the sister to fall back on .
10	you , if there 's any money to come back on that
11	Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own .
12	Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are .
13	I waited an hour for you to come , and , from the look of it , I 've got quite a bit to catch up on .
14	IF you have ever wondered whether or not you would enjoy a canal holiday , a Cheshire boat operator is offering the opportunity to find out on short cut-price ‘ taster ’ breaks .
15	They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town .
16	‘ It 's a psychological boost to go back on top but we have been there before and we wo n't be getting too carried away . ’
17	So if you 're a parent and you 're allowing your kids to go out on er trick or treat night or Halloween , then you do n't deserve to have children .
18	In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports .
19	Now he had the nerve to go back on his word .
20	In the negotiations in which the King now attempted to play off Parliament , Army and Scots against each other , he acted with a degree of duplicity which might have been justified by success ; it was disastrous , however , when his intercepted correspondence revealed the irreconcilable offers which he had made and his intention to go back on his agreements .
21	People like daddy have to hold the ring , they 're a sort of bedrock , to make sure there 's always some civilisation to fall back on .
22	True , he still had the Korda minimum deal to fall back on , but this new offer was in a wildly different category .
23	There is no attempt to zoom in on solo instruments , and indeed not signs of unwelcome engineering anywhere ; one is left with the most natural impression of a fine concert as heard from about Row S.
24	38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise .
25	to remove existing 80-metre fence at west end and replace with new fence to allow full 2-metre width ( old fence to be removed at start of works ; new fence to go in on completion , to allow dumpers to manoevre while work is in progress .
26	Here are some suggestions ; Invite the most junior person in your department to sit in on your executive meeting .
27	And just think , Barbara , you 've got all of their other songs to catch up on . ’
28	As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control .
29	Well I I think I 'll wait for H B F to come back on that one .
30	Private steel companies sought injunctions against the Iron and Steel Trades Confederation who were calling on workers in the private sector of the steel industry to come out on strike to support workers in the public sector who were striking over pay .