Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let them think on this . |
| 2 | Your chairman was kind enough — before he let me loose on this most patient audience — to say that my attitude , for an historian , was very unhistorical and I took it that that was meant as praise . |
| 3 | Er nothing to report on that . |
| 4 | A number of documentary collections , some of them drawing on Soviet publications , were compiled by western scholars , but they tended to bear the strong imprint of liberal editorship and to concentrate on political rather than socio-economic material . |
| 5 | Everyone agreed on that . |
| 6 | Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains . |
| 7 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 8 | On the glass is drawn the triangle , and also some of the biomorphs whose genetic formulae entitle them to sit on that particular flat plane . |
| 9 | They wanted me to go on casual . |
| 10 | He was warned in advance , but , as a former soldier , felt ‘ God has chosen me to go on this forlorn hope of preaching his Blessed Gospel in his country , and I should discourage those who are coming after me if I should be afraid and fly . ’ |
| 11 | In in the inside so nothing goes on that . |
| 12 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 13 | This element is lacking in another group of cases , where nothing turns on any prior act of the potential defendant but rather on the delivery of the document to the official of the forum state or its publication at some prescribed place . |
| 14 | There is , however , no need for a precise definition of ‘ large ’ since nothing turns on any particular size threshold being crossed . |
| 15 | Nothing turns on this . |
| 16 | Again , nothing turns on this point . |
| 17 | ‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’ |
| 18 | Do you want me to comment on that as we go through or |
| 19 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 20 | I myself am going to take only a very few minutes that are left to me to comment on some of the points that were raised in the debate . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's really not professional of me to comment on these things . |
| 22 | Mr Baker , who said society had become more violent and more selfish , made an indirect attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , and other church leaders , calling on them to concentrate on juvenile crime instead of the European Social Chapter on workers ' rights . |
| 23 | Right , if there 's , if there 's gon na be , if there 's gon na be looking a bit iffy , if you 'll let me know on any item , and then I 'll get , I 'll , and then I 'll box . |
| 24 | This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time . |
| 25 | I asked on that occasion for considerably more information . |
| 26 | My right hon. Friend will recall that I asked on 18 July for an inquiry , and my constituents will welcome what my right hon. Friend has said today . |
| 27 | I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over . |
| 28 | And er so that 's er I stopped on six months , being an orderly , because I could n't go back into tailoring , obviously , because er it might have aggravated it all again . |
| 29 | ‘ Now work out the profit I made on each of the five cars and add up the total . |
| 30 | In addition , it will be eligible for up to £3.66 million under the urban crime fund initiative that I announced on 26 November . |