Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AMA a magical realist adventure story is set in London , drawing successfully on African traditions . |
| 2 | Obviously some supply would would occur because housing associations will build wholly on some sites . |
| 3 | The conflict is between an essentially moral stance which prizes consistency and uniformity in the application of standards ( similar discharges should be similarly controlled in degree and kind ) and a utilitarian approach concerned with effect on water quality , regardless ( again , in theory , at least ) of the means of the discharger or the demands fortuitously being placed unequally on similar dischargers ( see generally Ackemman et al , 1974 ) . |
| 4 | Not surprisingly , therefore , most marketing efforts concentrate predominantly on satisfying people 's wants . |
| 5 | The IBOA negotiators argued forcibly on many points giving reasons as to why the Banks should concede a significant salary increase to our members . |
| 6 | If none wins outright on first preferences , the bottom name drops out , and his backers ' second preferences go to their recipients ; then , if need be , the next-bottom drops out ; and so on , till somebody gets over 50% . |
| 7 | So he ungloved , and rummaged with his fingers , sucking vigorously on those till the lower half of the skull , still attached to the spinal column , was quite empty . |
| 8 | The reception area had obviously been designed to impress , with its mushroom-coloured Anton Plus carpet imported from America , its three-tiered Czechoslovakian glass crystal lights , its brown leather armchairs and its crushed velour curtains draped ornately on either side of the plate glass window facing directly out on to the car park . |
| 9 | Sit in on one of my lessons . |
| 10 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 11 | Now again if you take a good look round the retired people in town there is , you just sit down on one of those benches in town and watch people for a bit , and you 'll see that a lot of them are deteriorating physically and that is making them , making it difficult for them to get about socially , shopping- wise and so on . |
| 12 | ‘ Sit down on that not very comfortable stool , and listen to what I have to say regarding your future , if you choose to accept it . |
| 13 | Now in fact that 's not what we like our stewards to do , what we like our stewards to do is actually to help people to enjoy themselves , to help people to erm to enjoy the house and to sit on things and and and actually say , no please sit down on that if you like to , it 's perfectly alright , that 's what it 's for . |
| 14 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 15 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 16 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 17 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 18 | Rincewind got down on one knee , the better to arrange the picture , and pressed the enchanted lever . |
| 19 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 20 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 21 | By the time ‘ Cobweb Soup ’ grinds in on thin guitar it 's already too late , as curiously gets the better of you . |
| 22 | Who actually sits in on these video meetings . |
| 23 | Wordsworth did not comment much on these matters in the first edition of his Guide but they are clearly set out in the second edition ( 1820 ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 25 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 26 | Zoom in on this bungalow |
| 27 | ‘ If Lennox does n't learn to crouch and get his right hand up more , Ruddock will zoom in on that and it is going to be all over . |
| 28 | Can you zoom in on that window then ? |
| 29 | You can zoom in on any area of the design by positioning a BOX around that area . |
| 30 | Here senior police officers sit in a windowless room , facing a bank of video-monitors and operating , by remote control , TV cameras which can zoom in on any area of the terraces or stands . |