Example sentences of "[be] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This original small port and fishing village had been down on the marshes adjoining the Rother , not far from Rye , and given to Fécamp Abbey by Cnut . |
| 2 | → Sorry to have forgotten about the Pacifica , Graham — although , come to think of it , Charvel/Jackson might also have been in on the act back in the mid-eighties . |
| 3 | Well it 'll been in on the table . |
| 4 | At the time of this Report , knitters ' order intake volumes for Autumn 1993 are down on the previous year , in part as retailers delay ordering and in part reflecting recessionary conditions in key export markets in Europe and Japan . |
| 5 | Sexual offences are down on the same period last year by 31pc . |
| 6 | Even car towaways are in on the act . |
| 7 | A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid . |
| 8 | The western American states are in on the act , too — Oregon , California and Alaska are growing at seven per cent — twice the rate of the remainder of the country . |
| 9 | We plod along for two or three decades with the occasional recording of individual sonatas and then along comes a centenary year and all and sundry are in on the act at the same time . |
| 10 | ‘ It goes on to explain how the geneticists and the neurochemists — neurotransmitters and all that — are in on the act = ’ His red eyes searched mine once more , then turned away to stare at the solitary lamp . |
| 11 | You are in on the ground floor of something very , very exciting ! ’ |
| 12 | Now the Chinese are in on the act : The Nanchang company are exporting their mopeds and motorbikes to Britain . |
| 13 | The Portuguese , Greek and Italians are in on the same thing too . |
| 14 | Erm investment banking and fine china in the market circumstances er performed well , erm although they 're down on the previous year . |
| 15 | Julian 's changed his shirt again and we 're off on the most challenging trip of this home recording trilogy . |
| 16 | lets hope old Syd is back bowling very soon … we 're off on the trail to South America now for one of the most demanding and torturous sporting trials of all … |
| 17 | That was , that was the only thing I , I thought well if I get off to the wrong start , you 're off on the wrong start completely so yes I , I concede that I was nervous at the , at the beginning . |
| 18 | We 're up on the third floor here . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're out on the line . ’ |
| 20 | After a short thoughtful silence Doone said , ‘ You 're out on the bank . |
| 21 | Not only do you get to know your friends much more intimately when you 're out on the hill , the true test of character is how they behave when they come home . |
| 22 | But what if — well , what if you 're out on the floor at some gay club , thrusting your valuables at all and sundry , and you spot — or ( CALAMITY ! ) are spotted by — some workmates who are injecting a buzz of decadence into their boring night out by visiting a queer disco — what then ? |
| 23 | Sure , I tell them that when they 're out on the field I want them to forget that they 're Momma 's little girls and project ! |
| 24 | ‘ They 're out on the plain , Khan . ’ |
| 25 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |
| 26 | here we are articifial snow it even makes snowballs … hope you 've enjoyed our ski-ing this afternoon next week we 're out on the River Thames for the Boat race |
| 27 | If you 're out on the roads this weekend , there 's a chance you could see a squashed beetle . |
| 28 | We 'd lived there three years , decorated it and everything and then bang we 're out on the streets . |
| 29 | They 're out on the twenty of March or something . |
| 30 | Sentences and words also require interpretation — indeed they would seem to require this more obviously than pictures — and so we 're back on the circle of infinite regress . |