Example sentences of "[verb] on the thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do you try out new things , move on and try out something else if it is not successful , build on the things that go well ? |
| 2 | you know kind of build on , build on the criticism as it were and build on the things that people say could improve it erm |
| 3 | Yes , it says on the thing that you can attach a job description to the back , but I should say that probably they want it appraisals that you get back , there is n't a job description attached and there 's nothing written on the board . |
| 4 | She said it was br it was , I did n't think it was but it wa it was really good fun and also I was going out with Carl at the time and so , you know , in our big like little group big little group , our big group , that was a bit of a erm contradiction , erm in our big group and erm we knew masses of people and there were lots of there and there were lots of Felixstowe people there and it was just a really good laugh and erm Right Said Fred were there and some other sort of ravey group , ca n't remember what now and then , no some techno group , and then erm so we all thought oh let's go for this , let's go , la this time last year we thought oh well let's go over to this one for a joke , you know , for old time 's sake let's just go along and have a joke and we went and it was full of erm like they were all about fourteen , I suppose when we went we were all fourteen too but last year well most of my friends are sort of you know sixteen erm we went and it was n't , it was n't , it was n't full at all and the place is huge and it says , it says on the thing , you know , two thousand people go and there must have been about four hundred at the most and it was really , and I , also I ha I was ill that day and it was really shit so if they said it was brilliant last year it probably was n't the stockings because it was , nobody I met said it was , and also yeah the stockings and the feathers were put on the same day and there 's competition between the two companies does stocking and I 've forgotten what feathers is , there 's competition and so lots of people went to the feathers instead and the feathers had like too many people and the stockings had too lit too few . |
| 5 | A few lights moved on the Thing 's surface . |
| 6 | We are it said on the thing . |
| 7 | Ogden and Richards , in contrast , stress that words are used to ‘ point to ’ things , and that their meaning does in the last analysis depend on the things they are used to point to , their referents ; language may be different from reality , therefore , but it nonetheless reflects it . |
| 8 | Thank , thank you Mr Mayor I I 'll be very brief because I think that there have been a number of very good points made from all all sides of the chamber tonight and I think really er councillor er touched on the thing that that worried me so much about the creation of ghettos . |
| 9 | He rapped on the Thing with his knuckles . |
| 10 | There is no reason why Tanzania should not combine an examination , which is based on the things we teach , with a teacher and pupil assessment of work done for the school and community . |
| 11 | Now what is God saying to me through this passage ? … and you find yourself ruminating on the things you are anxious about , and you start to relate this to the person you are . |
| 12 | I said , the prices are marked on the thing |
| 13 | A small red light started to flash on the Thing . |
| 14 | Concentrate on the things you can do well within a reasonable working day , establishing the priorities as you go along . |
| 15 | Lookout you get you better get on the thing . |
| 16 | Like I say that 's what they will put on the thing is n't it ? |
| 17 | More radical is the move towards ‘ object orientation , ’ which focuses on the thing being worked on instead of the application package , on the document , for example , instead of the word processor . |
| 18 | And , it said on the thing someone in the Spotter 's Wood , she lived in Spotter 's Wood at one point , but she said that was an old house . |
| 19 | Since he had , like them , done all these things , it was an easy step for ageing trendies — who hated the cultural conservatism of Ronald Reagan and George Bush — to believe that he was going to act on the things that most concerned them . |
| 20 | Warning of the dire peril IBM faced at the hands of Unix , we suggested that so many parties were working on the thing that over time it would accrete to itself all the missing features that commercial users demanded , and that instead of simply trying to muddy the Unix waters as IBM did for so long , it should recognise that its most convincing answer to Unix was right there under its nose in the form of VM . |
| 21 | All you do turn on the thing |