Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could discourse at great length on the history of Europe , illustrating how little I knew on this vast subject ( having ducked out of history lessons at the age of thirteen ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sorry I pounced on you before , ’ the dog told them . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was 12 I won the one length freestyle , backstroke and breaststroke events at the local schools gala , but after that I concentrated on the backstroke most of the time . ’ |
| 4 | Soon after this I embarked on another essay , under what stimulus I do not now remember ; but I had formed the habit , not of revising or tinkering with an unsatisfactory piece , but of writing something else instead . |
| 5 | my Lord I think so yes , erm if I can just say this I understand on the structures that a letter has been , er , an offer has been made by a letter erm of the structure and obviously there would be and that , that was done I think some time ago , erm and it might be my Lord how to what sort of structure is , but , but , erm I think from our side , erm we , we 've taken the first step and we 're going |
| 6 | In 1985 I stood on the quayside , shivering in the cold drizzle , to watch Arthur Hutton plant the hedge , closely watched by his grandson Martin , who hopes one day to follow his grandfather in keeping up the custom . |
| 7 | I have a few which appear on my living room carpet whenever I watch certain TV programmes . |
| 8 | The bomber attacked would seem to have been an aircraft ( 4D+CT ) of 9/KG 30 which crashed on return , Lt. Albrecht Irion and all his crew being reported lost . |
| 9 | And er eventually he came er an engine which er there were some which started on petrol and then you turned on to paraffin but most of the work , just going on petrol , with a plug and a magneto . |
| 10 | At this she turned on Karelius a look of such desperate gratitude that his selfish irritation was quite vanquished . |
| 11 | Roxburgh explained : ‘ In a situation like this you act on three factors ; medical opinion , the player 's attitude and your own gut feelings . |
| 12 | As was pointed out in the previous chapter , the plan of the Victorian house and the Victorian city have this in common : that both are so designed that the few who live on the privileged side of the divide need know nothing of the many who are crowded beyond it into a fraction of the space . |
| 13 | Some who enrol on a course may also find managing their work load and domestic arrangements traumatic and feel guilty , undermined by lack of support from partner , parents or children or emotionally blackmailed . |
| 14 | Gold shares , though far dearer than they recently were , are still attractive to some who reckon on rising prices . |
| 15 | Cedomir Biga , a Serbian who died on 2 September while detained by Croatian police in Dreznik , was said by police to have died from a heart attack . |
| 16 | equations this one go on the top or the bottom of the fraction or what ? |
| 17 | Unlike the contortions in books by Jane Fonda and others , this one concentrates on shaping the top half of the body . |
| 18 | This one leapt on me at the exact moment that Junior unloosened his arms and thrust himself into his father 's crying : ‘ Daddy , Daddy , I like this nice man . |
| 19 | In contrast to the glamour of television stars featured in the earlier story , this one focused on the alleged exploits of a family living in a council house in rural England . |
| 20 | Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson therefore decided that it would be vexatious ‘ to pursue this one matter on its own in these proceedings ’ . |
| 21 | Her Divine Evil dwelt on witchcraft , this one dwells on magic and magicians . |
| 22 | This one focuses on underlying developments in accumulation . |
| 23 | Perhaps , like all good debates , this one relies on confusion , with participants writing about different aspects , for its sustenance . |
| 24 | And this one works on its own this purple chemical is more powerful and works on its own . |
| 25 | But , he warned , ‘ when we recover from the present recession , we had better be aware than another one lurks on the horizon ’ . |
| 26 | Another one killed on the main road as well . |
| 27 | Is this another one leaping on the fashionable let's-destroy-the-party-from-within bandwagon ? ] that — for years — to assert these facts has been heresy . ’ |
| 28 | My understanding is that the decision by British Airways was a commercial one based on the traffic , but I shall discuss that , too , with my hon. Friend the Member for Wiltshire , North when he returns . |
| 29 | In Chapter 2 we embarked on the task of building a house for the writer-self , a beloved abode where the writer in you can live . |
| 30 | Mr Jardine was another 'oo insisted on the 'ighest standards . ’ |