Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dustin , with darkened eyebrows , oily black hair smoothed down on either side of a central parting , dark sunglasses and Italian gestures , wastes much of his talent in this frenzied , intermittently funny satire on Italian customs . |
| 2 | The youth of Port Talbot were broken in on great drama and fired , from the beginning , to reach for the sky . |
| 3 | So people have rung in on this direct line to find out what 's going on and things appertaining that could be useful to them . |
| 4 | I mean my impression is that the resource has come in on this , I mean extra staffing , I mean you need it you ca n't do it without , |
| 5 | Having sat in on many lessons , he produced a list of ten categories of interaction . |
| 6 | My mother had social pretensions and candidly looked down on most of our neighbours — feckless social casualties like Mary Haslam who picked coal on the slag heaps and was endlessly pregnant by a series of different partners ; like the Races , one of whose children my father caught drinking paraffin . |
| 7 | They travel great distances , carried along on floating pack-ice . |
| 8 | I 'm not saying that I would 've picked up on all those points because |
| 9 | I assume that Crilly has been picked up on one of his many ‘ wanted ’ charges and that the police are calling to confirm the address he has given . |
| 10 | So I 've picked up on one . |
| 11 | The Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on Intel Corp iAPX-86-based machines ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 12 | Meantime the Wall Street Journal has now picked up on that story we reported last month that Apple Computer Inc and Novell Inc are working together to build the Macintosh System 7.1 look and feel atop Novell 's MS-DOS-compatible DR DOS to run on iAPX-86-based machines ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 13 | I thought you did n't like your German , are you a bit picked up on that then ? |
| 14 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 15 | It 's nice to have but it remains a novelty : only IBM and Epson have picked up on this new format with any degree of enthusiasm . |
| 16 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 17 | The people at the back may not be picked up on this so erm |
| 18 | I think probably the implications and a lot of people have er picked up on this as the policy has developed , is that er well they 're they 're concerned that the policy is in fact too flexible now because of how it is being interpreted by other people . |
| 19 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 20 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 21 | There was not a great deal to see , as he was curled up on one side with his thumb jammed in his mouth , and four chubby fingers obscured that part of his face not pressed deep into the bolster . |
| 22 | The Battalion was finally wound up on 7 August 1946 , and the Works lost its close association with the 1st Bucks , of some 69 years ' standing , for in 1947 , in the new TA formation , it became a Light-Anti-Aircraft Regiment , no part of which was raised at Wolverton . |
| 23 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 24 | From an early stage the atmosphere was electric , and as the match progressed the Irish players were caught up on one big -ENG roller coaster of unrivalled passion and emotion . |
| 25 | I 've caught , I 've caught up on most of it I 've got to copy up some maths but I 'll , I 'll borrow someone 's book this weekend . |
| 26 | Similarly , readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill-informed about polls before the campaign but caught up on highbrow readers later : the effect of reading a highbrow paper declined from 33 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to only 15 per cent in the closing stages of the campaign . |
| 27 | He could have come back on that one , if he 'd really tried , but sometimes it was much easier to lie on the floor and watch the lights on the ceiling and listen to the count going on . |
| 28 | I 've I 've just come back on that D two stop three . |
| 29 | But I , I , I know that I missed out on the , the private education one because I should 've come back on that . |
| 30 | one of the criticisms that has come out on this one book was that because the , these child adults are skilled and put into education , they maybe still illiterate , but they are street wise , they are literate of the street |