Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , oh dear , in antithesis Freud , Jung , Fromm and the women 's movement slowly crept up on us . |
| 2 | Stand with the feet together and slowly raise up on tiptoes , then lower the heels down again . |
| 3 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 4 | There was n't nothing wrong with it — it was just a little bashed up on one end , that 's all . |
| 5 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 6 | In an aftermath when the relentless and remorseless inhumanity of the mill owner and his magisterial friends passed into local lore , an attempt was made to assassinate Cartwright and one was successfully carried out on another mill owner , William Horsfall , who had boasted his intent to ride up to his saddle girths in the blood of Luddites . |
| 7 | ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted . |
| 8 | And though it had struck her as a slightly odd remark for a man on the brink of marriage to make , she most probably would n't have thought any more about it if he had responded to the way she had light-heartedly picked up on it with his usual unassailable self-assurance . |
| 9 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 10 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 11 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 12 | I found I wanted to support Sam , even though he 's old enough to sit up on his own now . ’ |
| 13 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 14 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 15 | HP appears to have pretty much given up on its own object-oriented New Wave environment for Unix . |
| 16 | I think legislation is merely catching up on some policies . |
| 17 | The idea is very possible , but would be better carried out on a factory produced four door ( which should be available soon ) as adding extra doors and pillars will increase the cost of conversion enormously . |
| 18 | Or they can be plotted against the fitted ( here smoothed ) values , to look for indications of non-constant variability ; if the residuals get bigger as the smoothed values get bigger , this usually means that the the analysis would be better carried out on another scale . |
| 19 | The Dodge mounted the kerb , headlights suddenly stabbing out on full beam . |
| 20 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 21 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 22 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 23 | ‘ Howard is a hard-liner who has been put in to bear down on us . |
| 24 | He had better catch up on Elinor 's latest batch of instructions . |
| 25 | Sent off for my tickets for the aforementioned match on Monday , only to find out on Tuesday that it 's been postponed ( effin Bright ) . |
| 26 | Jackie agreed , so I asked him why constructors like Mayer and Ecclestone so looked down on drivers . |
| 27 | I do n't think I 'm good enough to set up on my own . |
| 28 | It had been so vivid it seemed real , yet had she really been idiot enough to set out on a rough sea in a mere dinghy ? |
| 29 | This is a service free to producers , but one we can only carry out on members ' music . |
| 30 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |