Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In order to be sure that our data would be as reliable as possible a decision was made to report only on those countries from which we had received at least three questionnaires among which there was a high level of agreement . |
| 2 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 3 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 4 | ‘ I just thought it was a shame to go inside on such a night as this , ’ he continued , ‘ so I persuaded Will to partake of my company for a while . ’ |
| 5 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 6 | With this kind of work in mind , I obtained permission from the headteacher and the governors to sit in on all appointments that occurred in Bishop McGregor School during my fieldwork between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 7 | Consultants are bound to fall down on one of these . ’ |
| 8 | They can be easily manoeuvred , but tend to slip downhill on any pronounced slope . |
| 9 | But if we can turn , because , because Derek did , did request to come along on this specific item , er , and it 's the , the yellow papers , er , on Oak Farm . |
| 10 | Are you going to come in on that ? ’ |
| 11 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 12 | people to call now three four three four three four if you want to come in on this . |
| 13 | If you want to come in on any of this three four three four three four you can call now . |
| 14 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 15 | When facing an opponent , it is essential to concentrate only on that man or woman and not on our fear . |
| 16 | The promised agreement between Apple Computer Inc and Microsoft Corp calls for the two to work together on future technologies to help ensure a smooth and long-term evolution for customers of Microsoft applications for the Apple Macintosh — Microsoft has committed to doing versions of its Macintosh applications for the PowerPC RISC . |
| 17 | obviously we 've got to work together on all , are you listening to me ? , on all the different parts of the body , you want them all to come alive , okay , so , this week as I say we 're gon na concentrate on sound , sound , sound , sound , you 've got to play on sound that is the painting , I mean the , the pictures do you , alright that 's fine , at the same does n't matter we 've still got to work on different things , yeah , okay ? , erm , so , as I say we 're going to make a sound machine in different groups , now to give you an example , what I what you to do is be , I 'm going to give you a situation , give , choose a profession , okay , let's say we are in hospital , now I want you each and everyone of you in this group think of the situation , think of a sound that one might hear in a hospital , everyone to themselves just think of a sound , could be a patient screaming , it could be a heart machine , it could be , er exactly , could be that , could be absolutely anything , it could sirens , it could be anything , okay , for everyone I want you to have the sound in your head okay , everyone 's got a sound in their head ? |
| 18 | One way of ensuring a fairer distribution of additional resources is for schools to work together on joint fund raising . |
| 19 | Some children may need to experience the pleasures and benefits of collaboration before they will spontaneously choose to work together on joint activities . |
| 20 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 21 | job to get out the house for a little while and she usually gets granny up , cos granny have to come down on one of those chairs . |
| 22 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 23 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 24 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 25 | Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission . |
| 26 | If necessary more than five trials can be used if the level of anxiety fails to come down on any one specific target . |
| 27 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 28 | The gentoo is a large penguin , standing over sixty centimetres tall and is more like the king penguin in its habits , preferring to come ashore on sandy beaches and establish ‘ rookeries ’ up on nearby hillsides . |
| 29 | The speaker 's failure to comment overtly on syntactic structure here can not of course be interpreted as reliable evidence that he habitually uses and understands the construction . |
| 30 | In this short talk , I propose to concentrate just on two things . |