Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expected me to live on supplementary benefit so I was having to work the street , trying to get my house together . |
| 2 | The whole crew landed safely at Aberdeen at the end of August 1882 , having survived the winter because lack of provisions led them to live on fresh meat , thus avoiding scurvy , and because of Smith 's quiet leadership . |
| 3 | One of the less well-known consequences was that , when the companies who wrote unit-linked business wished to introduce personal pensions , they found that their natural mode of operation led them to return on death the fund which had built up for the policyholder , rather than any specific guaranteed rate of return . |
| 4 | Their increasing interest in the New Testament and the Life of Christ led them to concentrate on poverty and preaching — which previous authorities had seen to be dangerous . |
| 5 | But you asked me to comment on potential weaknesses , and this is one area which you may consider to be worthy of some serious attention . |
| 6 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 7 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 8 | And erm it was ex ex it was great having Chris along because erm he went out and grabbed everybody in the street , pulled them in onto the stall and er and got them got them to sign on the dotted line so to speak . |
| 9 | I can not resist the admission that I was profoundly flattered when a telephone call from Harold Wilson at Downing Street invited me to mediate on the basis that , so far as they could see , I was for the moment the only tolerable candidate . |
| 10 | On another occasion when I was involved in the tense process of bringing prisoners into the charge room in the central bridewell in Newcastle , a very precise ex-detective colleague ( by then a neat , uniformed chief inspector ) stopped me to exclaim on my appearance . |
| 11 | He is no respecter of titles : when the Daily Express queried his ability , he sent a lemon to Lord Stevens , the paper 's proprietor and invited him to suck on it . |
| 12 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 13 | I waited there for what seemed ages , and then they put me in a room on my own and told me to put on a paper gown . |
| 14 | My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Told me to sit on his knee . |
| 17 | Nobody told me to become a stand-up comedian and nobody told me to go on the fucking telly . ’ |
| 18 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 19 | And there , the tailor , he 'd been trained in the war , and he he only had one la leg , and he seemed very nice , but er he told me to start on the Monday and then I got a letter . |
| 20 | Of course , from a strictly scientific viewpoint these individual biographical studies can be criticised on the grounds that they are biased towards rather special cases ; added to which , as Becker points out , such accounts were usually written by clinicians whose professional interest in the abnormal inevitably caused them to focus on signs of pathology . |
| 21 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 22 | On the third evening of the first week he sent one of his assistants into the dining hall and told him to get on the mike and chat to the campers/diners . |
| 23 | The shock wave deafened the Doctor , and caused him to stumble on his way . |
| 24 | Modi told her to put on a tightly fitted black silk dress . |
| 25 | I did n't have much faith in him when I first spoke to him , but apparently he told her to stand on her own two feet . |
| 26 | They told her to get on her bike . |
| 27 | Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s . |
| 28 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 29 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 30 | The suppression of the tax on soap in 1852 encouraged him to embark on soap manufacture . |