Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | You got ta get on them have n't you ? |
| 2 | That was the compliment I got for putting on red nail varnish . |
| 3 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 4 | Both sides were fired up — too much so — in some cases — and a spiteful start brought warnings for David Speedie and Keith Alexander before the third-minute incident which saw Rees dismissed for stamping on Downs with the full-back prostrate and helpless . |
| 5 | Since this is a family newspaper , one shrinks from recounting the things he bounded round doing on Capri . |
| 6 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 7 | on the other hand , in Patullo v. Dundee Corporation , 1969 S.L.T. 31 , MacIntyre v. Elie and Earlsferry Town Council , 1967 S.L.T. ( sh.Ct. ) 78 , and MacGregor v. Berwickshire County Council , 1967 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 13 , appeals were refused where the decision appealed against proceeded on general policy . |
| 8 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 9 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 10 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 11 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 12 | Although London 's Oxford Street topped the list when it came to spending on fashion and footwear , Aylesbury beat both Oxford and the West End as far as spending on food , furniture , electrical goods and D I Y items was concerned . |
| 13 | A game of chance played by betting on the order appearance of certain cards . |
| 14 | The twisted snakes that acted as ferrules on ceremonial staffs are amongst the less elaborate objects fashioned in this way . |
| 15 | In a separate section of the statement , France joined in calling on the Libyan government to " prove by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism " . |
| 16 | He missed the tournament because of a knee injury , so he turned to commentating on television . |
| 17 | He celebrated by embarking on a fishing trip to the Bahamas where he reinjured a knee and was subjected to micro-surgery to remove a floating hunk of cartilage . |
| 18 | The workshop opened by focusing on particular aspects of social security . |
| 19 | In that same year he returned from studying on the Continent and began to exhibit work in the Royal Academy and with the New English and the London Group . |
| 20 | At the end of this necessarily lengthy examination of the decided cases I have found nothing which causes me to depart from the view I expressed before embarking on that examination as to the appropriate procedure to be followed under section 7(3) and section 8(2) considered simply on the basis of the statutory language . |
| 21 | Perhaps he should have watched Robert Bresson 's A Man Escaped before embarking on the picture . |
| 22 | He began by commenting on the dramatic progress that has been made in the understanding of both tropospheric and stratospheric chemical processes during the past 20 years . |
| 23 | A staff nurse who began by working on an elderly care ward part-time from 9am to 2pm is now working virtually full-time , despite having five children . |
| 24 | Giolitti also harnessed the nationalist fervour that still existed by embarking on a colonial war for Libya . |
| 25 | Erm I must get in touch with Wendy because we vaguely talked about running on Monday night . |
| 26 | Bill went broke after bingeing on booze early in his TV career and after tax bills he ended up with all his worldly goods in four packing cases . |
| 27 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 28 | Because the discussion of these criteria is associated with a fresh and more promising period in the history of memory research , and also symbolizes the point in my own research trajectory at which I switched from working on imprinting to an even simpler form of learning in the young chick , they can appropriately form the starting-point for the next chapter . |
| 29 | When they persisted in calling on Iraq 's Shia majority to rise up and overthrow his Sunni-based regime , he was forced into war . |
| 30 | And I were I was doing the job there th that 's how I started on working on shore . |