Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the passengers were on their way home to Dublin or off on holiday in Amsterdam , Paris or Jersey . |
| 2 | But rats sent into space by Wesley Hymer of Pennsylvania State University showed that readapting , whether on Mars or back on Earth , may not be straightforward . |
| 3 | Civil Engineering offers an exciting and well-paid career with opportunities to work either both in an office or out on site both in the UK and overseas . |
| 4 | He was , after all , proposing to jerk up and down on top of a naked woman not more than three or four strides away from a sleeping child , her child . |
| 5 | When you have experienced past disappointments , hardship and disillusionment , you know you have been up and down on life 's waves . |
| 6 | I went there pretty regularly on and off on shore-leave during the early and middle fifties . |
| 7 | Periods of observation were spent in the control room , at the front desk and out on patrol with officers in each subdivision , and police records of messages received analysed . |
| 8 | This is also the only way for motorists who have been refused permission at Killilan to use the private road , or who did n't like to ask , and are fit enough to do eight miles there and back on foot . |
| 9 | On the Glomar Challenger , and back on shore , Hall met others who shared his enthusiasm for the ocean floor . |
| 10 | He had travelled sixty miles to Liverpool and back on business , and was very tired . |
| 11 | some days will be spent in the office , others out and about on site . ’ |
| 12 | OUCH : Mel 's grazed but back on set Picture : STEVE KING |
| 13 | ‘ Angel — as in on top of your Christmas tree , ’ I said before anyone else could say it . |
| 14 | Police are targetting known thieves with a special burglary squad to catch the culprits , some of whom are still breaking into homes when out on bail . |