Example sentences of "[verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ he said finally , helping her to walk with Matey 's assistance , ‘ I have heard of the ladies ’ sewing circle accused of many things , but never of bringing on a swoon . |
| 2 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 3 | Well , she went and got the Deputy Head and she was a bit upset about it , and then after that our biology group was chopped right down , more or less cut in half , and most of the boys went somewhere else to do their biology while the rest of us stayed with that teacher and we got on a lot better then , you know . |
| 4 | He goes on a bit … ’ |
| 5 | Goes on a bit thick . |
| 6 | So you 've got the children tomorrow lunchtime , you 've got the band tomorrow evening , but the library exhibition goes on a bit longer ? |
| 7 | It goes on a lot better than Amy 's . |
| 8 | Goes on an hour |
| 9 | it goes , it goes on an hour |
| 10 | Booz , Allen & Hamilton was forced to close down its executive search division in 1980 , when serious problems surfaced as a result of trying to carry on a recruiting business whilst at the same time having 3000 management consultancy clients on their books , who were more or less off-limits from the point of view of providing candidates for headhunting . |
| 11 | When she first begins to talk , she uses two different types of speech : egocentric speech , a kind of monologue , when she chatters on without bothering to know whom she is speaking to or even whether they are listening ; and socialized speech , a sign of growing maturity and decentring , when she tries to carry on a conversation , reacting to what the other person says . |
| 12 | It is pretty difficult to carry on a conversation like that , let alone write a scientific paper . |
| 13 | Once authorisation to carry on a banking business has been granted by the home member state to a bank in accordance with the Community 's essential requirements , the Community legislative approach is to require the host country in which the bank may wish to provide cross-border services or establish a branch to recognise the validity of that authorisation , and to allow it to do so without making additional ‘ authorisation ’ requirements to the bank . |
| 14 | The benefit of planning permission to carry on a business from premises is normally lost by a subsequent change of use of those premises . |
| 15 | Treaty , freely to carry on a business . |
| 16 | He faced a prison sentence , and in his eagerness to keep his client out of prison , defending QC Mr Christmas Humphreys claimed that Trevor had been overworking and was drinking ‘ to give him the energy to carry on a task that was almost more than he could bear ’ . |
| 17 | If they were found worthy they were given help , including cash and the tools to carry on a trade , help in finding a job and regular visitation and advice until they could ‘ stand on their own feet ’ . |
| 18 | This argument was rejected on the basis that , from its formation , Newco 's wider purpose was to carry on a trade and that was why it was acquiring the business . |
| 19 | It 's a peculiar way to carry on a war , is n't it ? |
| 20 | It begins to sound from this description that it 's I twelve which is a bit of a dinosaur , a a dodo , that this is a county trying to carry on a thing which has probably passed its sell by date , that er it is n't fair to say that I five is primarily for industry , erm that is n't what the law says it is . |
| 21 | Before making an order the SIB must ensure , inter alia , that the members of the SRO are ‘ fit and proper persons ’ to carry on an investment business , in particular , that they meet the standards of ‘ honesty , competence and solvency ’ , and that they operate fair and reasonable admission , expulsion , and disciplinary procedures . |
| 22 | His best friend did not go to the funeral because he had already decided to go on a day trip to France ! |
| 23 | Keen mountaineer Thomas Hargreaves , 39 , left to go on a day 's hiking in an area frequented by grizzly bears last Thursday , but friends only reported him missing at the weekend . |
| 24 | ARSENAL manager George Graham has been given the green light to go on a Christmas spending spree . |
| 25 | Yeah because he 's got to go on a month 's course for a start , for just general and then we 've got to try and find him a a week 's course somewhere as A L O , I do n't know where but er in that time . |
| 26 | Intruders frequently find the spare keys all neatly hanging on a keyboard : front door , back door , garage and car keys . |
| 27 | A few days later we passed the desiccated corpse of another brigand hanging on a gibbet beside the track . |
| 28 | The pair of travellers slept in a somewhat makeshift room , where a woman 's dress hanging on a rope acted as a partition between two beds . |
| 29 | In its varied type-faces , its symbols of mourning — lilies , the reaping sickle , the portrait photograph framed in lines as if hanging on a wall — and its verses from Longfellow , this seemed an almost Victorian celebration of death . |
| 30 | She checks her appearance in a mirror hanging on a tree . |