Example sentences of "[verb] on [pers pn] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 2 | He was drugged on it all , just like many GIs who were dead to the world they were killing ’ . |
| 3 | And I have to talk on it all the time . |
| 4 | Show on them all the possible lines of symmetry . |
| 5 | This election , is a clear choice between over spending , and over zealous ideas , resulting in an unnecessarily high Poll Tax being levied on us all by a Labour Council out of control , up to its eyes in debt , overspent and overstaffed — or a sane , reasonable planned Conservative Council of common sense . |
| 6 | The first Plan identified twenty action points and progress has been made on them all . |
| 7 | Neither man liked the other , but they had strewn eggs in their own pathways towards each other and they walked on them all afternoon . |
| 8 | ‘ It needs money spending on it all the time to keep it going and in a fair state of maintenance . |
| 9 | She had pondered on it all night — that and the image of his laughing eyes and the way his full , firm lips tipped so readily into that wickedly sexy smile . |
| 10 | Now that cape , it would be raining on it all night , and we had no means of drying it so that cape was left on a hanger in the house and the next coat was taken and that was worn but for some reason it seemed to be always raining on nights and you had coat wet and you came to go out it was still damp . |
| 11 | She plays on yours all the time about her , your Dynamike |
| 12 | Sit on it all night . |
| 13 | The all-woman crew were bringing the launch in , leaping with fearless agility to the jetty and tying up efficiently , as though they had been born on boats and lived on them all their life . |
| 14 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |
| 15 | Grimly he started to sing an old war-song , to lift the weight that lay on them all . |
| 16 | Counting on us all , either to celebrate or drown our sorrows , are the big brewers as they embark on a results reporting season . |
| 17 | They 're gon na be late now because we insisted on them all coming . |
| 18 | I call on you all to line up … ’ |
| 19 | — That night , a perfect night for Manjiku , when he goes prowling in his hunger , under a moon that 's big as the sun , Amadé slides her body into the sea and feels chilled with terror , though the water 's not really cold , the sun shines on it all day . |
| 20 | going this far then the doctor put on it that going it had on it all that he hates which he takes it means either osteoarthritic |
| 21 | If we play many games — you can reflect on them all , ca n't you ? |
| 22 | ‘ We must check on them all , ’ he murmured . |
| 23 | This was meant to be the moment of her greatest satisfaction , when she unleashed on him all the bitterness and resentment that she had carried inside her over the years . |
| 24 | It er it comes on you all at once ! |
| 25 | The delays and frustrating disappointments of trying to keep to an eighteen-month construction schedule in the Caribbean were beginning to tell on them all . |
| 26 | Yes , Tuesdays , the accounts manager , I think if everybody wants to get that reaction , if that 's the regular reaction that they get , you know , people dumping on them all the time , it is water off a duck 's back , you take it more , you take it more on board if it is an occasional thing , . |
| 27 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |
| 28 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 29 | Not only was he working on it all day at home , but he had to travel about the country collecting information . |
| 30 | So however And then you start you 've got to start and use very little polish and very little methylated spirits and what we call to work out the the all that oil has to be lifted out and it 's you dra it 's you work in circles and work in circles cos that fills in the pores and then near when you 're on maybe bout the last th th takes about three or four coats you know , working on it All depends just how how how long it takes to get it filled up . |