Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [noun pl] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strip grazing is used widely for cattle on kale , but is less popular with mixed stock or sheep on grass . |
| 2 | Such changes enabled junior partners to be taken on without initial capital contributions and to buy their way in effectively through restrictions on their drawings . |
| 3 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 4 | A dentist is now paid by the National Health Service only for materials on an approved list . |
| 5 | Although clear guidelines were set down for teachers on the minimum time commitment and core content of each of the projects , the organisation and management of the projects were at the discretion of the teacher . |
| 6 | Turnip salad with capers is no shock today and raw choucroûte salad , an idea Pomiane had picked up in Moscow — buy very fresh choucroûte from the charcutier and stop at the village pump to wash it thoroughly , he told those of his French readers who went in for picnics on canoeing and automobile excursions — should be the joy of vegetarians . |
| 7 | The South African whistled tunelessly for hours on end , and always the same tune , ‘ Sarie Marais ’ . |
| 8 | She went on : ‘ They would go off together for days on end on their bicycles . |
| 9 | buyers and dealers at the really smart sales thrown together for days on end in the sales rooms are keen observers of who paid how much for what , who 's selling what and why . |
| 10 | It is an utter delight all the way , especially for travellers on foot with time to linger , but perhaps not for nervous motorists . |
| 11 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 12 | ‘ After their disappearance , all the records of their influence speak only of effects on the minds of their followers . |
| 13 | Hard-edged , smelling distastefully of banknotes on snow , they sketched for her , faster than light , a helix of numbers . |
| 14 | In future , companies joining a group with such losses will be allowed to use them only against gains on other assets owned at the time it was acquired . |
| 15 | The manner of the capitalization was that the shares would not be publicly quoted and dealt in like ones on the Stock Exchange , but would be offered to investors who would have faith that the company would grow and their shares would increase with it . |
| 16 | She sat her on a towel and they had a cup of tea , huddled together like conspirators on the edge of Carolyn 's bed . |
| 17 | Bachelors strung together like pegs on a line on lower panel . |
| 18 | And yet the drama lies in this , wrote Harsnet , that perhaps the Bride really wishes to remain only a bride , at the moment of her bridity , and the bachelors only bachelors , at the moment of their bachelorhood , dangling together like pegs on a line , boys together at eternal stag party , as the bride a virgin forever in her dream of giving herself up to something else , crossing the threshold to another existence . |
| 19 | Then , as always , various ‘ catchphrases ’ were strung together like shells on a necklace to form a complete view that was repeated over and again and formed men 's attitudes . |
| 20 | ‘ I love you ! ’ he said shakingly , and bent his dark head to kiss her , desire flaring between them , relief mingling sweetly with it , their mouths clinging and their arms round each other obsessively , twining together like bindweeds on that hot terrace with the scarlet bougainvillaea trailing down the dusty cliffs and the sea glittering turquoise beyond . |
| 21 | We sat with our backs against the trig point and gazed down like Gods on the coastal plain of Thassos . |
| 22 | They do n't look much like delinquents on the run . |
| 23 | The fact that the First Directive was formally concerned only with restrictions on foreign exchange transactions did not prevent the court , in Brugnoni v. Cassa di Risparmio di Genova e Imperia ( Case 157/85 ) [ 1986 ] E.C.R. 2013 , 2030 , para. 22 , from applying it to any kind of obstacles constituting a ‘ hindrance ’ to the widest liberalisation of those capital movements which the First Directive sought to liberalise in full . |
| 24 | The party 's first object was the prosecution of the war , and this could be linked convincingly enough with attacks on malingerers and deserters ; long after 1902 Unionists had continued to revile radical Liberals ( including Lloyd George ) as pro-Boers , and this view was easily adaptable to the Labour party in the new war . |
| 25 | Either going or coming one should cross the Athos peninsula and look down into monasteries on the Holy Mountain that no female eye may otherwise see . |
| 26 | The Green Party is pitching in with policies on Rubbish recycling and transport . |
| 27 | People were coming in with questions on our first little bit hesitant debate . |
| 28 | ‘ A few minutes later two guys came running in with masks on they were both shouting and swearing and told me to lie on the ground . |
| 29 | We invited colleagues to sit in with students on our classes . |
| 30 | He is the Rock God with an ever-expanding kingdom , a man ambitious and flagrant enough to throw his lot in with punks on ‘ Rust Never Sleeps ’ and rekindle hippy homilies without sentimentality on ‘ Harvest Moon ’ . |