Example sentences of "[to-vb] [indef pn] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what we 'll do , we 'll try to find someone on the way who knows the counter-spell and send him back to wake the Gnomes up . ’ |
| 2 | You ought to find someone on the same wavelength , who knows your mind , your love of freedom , who thinks of you the same instant you think of him . |
| 3 | Once again it is up to the pilot to insist that this wing is held and not to accept someone on the upwind wing-tip . |
| 4 | ’ To give examples , he suggests that a kayak should have a jettisoning pod to prevent entrapment situations without making it clear that the buyer is unlikely to find one on the market . |
| 5 | Sometimes you may want to reach everyone on the list , but more often you will only be using certain sections or even picking out a dozen or so specialist outlets . |
| 6 | Then we 'll have to tip someone on the floor . |
| 7 | It 's no good looking at the cigars available and attempting to choose one on the basis of certain criteria . |
| 8 | The very first thing which they do is to destroy something on the island , which shows their masculinity . |
| 9 | Stretch up as if you are trying to reach something on the top shelf of the kitchen at home and you know you are going to succeed . |
| 10 | His father objected that the police had arrested him unlawfully , because the law lays it down that no-one is allowed to do on Sunday the work by which he earns a living , and the police were therefore not allowed to arrest anybody on a Sunday . |
| 11 | ‘ The announcement would n't even reach half the city in that time , ’ the young officer protested hesitantly ‘ You 'd be ordering us to shoot anyone on the stree — ’ His speech ended with the full stop of a heavy bullet in the face . |
| 12 | You were n't supposed to stick anything on the walls , but Jamila had pinned up poems by Christina Rossetti , Plath , Shelley and other vegetarians , which she copied out of library books and read when she stretched her legs by taking a few steps around the tiny room . |
| 13 | It is unwise to erect one on a grassed area unless you use scaffold boards to spread the load |
| 14 | It is also advisable to float something on the surface of a concrete pond to help absorb some of the pressure produced by the ice patch , an empty , sealed lemonade bottle , plastic football , large piece of cork or even a tennis ball will do the job admirably . |
| 15 | I reckoned that I needed to chance everything on a — well , it 's a bit like roulette , when you feel an inexplicable urge to stake everything on one number … |
| 16 | There is implied permission to tap someone on the shoulder to attract their attention . |
| 17 | Okay , erm I 'm a littl I 'm a little bit I 'm a little bit worried about er this er exploitation of people and security because they 've got no proven record and no medical evidence , if he was that good this guy will be a millionaire and people will be growing hair all the time , to put somebody on the chair , without knowing if that person 's got blood pressure or heart problems , they could suffer from a s a stroke erm have er or be partially paralysed , so I I think I like to see this man here maybe in ten fifteen years time with proper proven er medical evidence . |
| 18 | Now , the number of quiffs raised is not an indication of how well that job went through the companies or erm , because quiffs could be raised quite minor things like one person forgetting to put something on a form or a form not being photocopied , or procedure changes or others |
| 19 | I mean I 'm , I 'm , I 'm only going on the fact that I I tend to do everything on the cheap so I tend to get if I can find somebody who does photocopying I can do it then we 'll do it . |
| 20 | So you 'd better be prepared today to do everything on the move . |
| 21 | God had to do something on the cross , in Christ , in order that his love which he has for us as sinners might become forgiveness for us in reality . |
| 22 | Are you going to do one on the potty now ? are n't we ? |
| 23 | You 've got to do one on the slip off and one on the slip on , at the same part |
| 24 | When making maps you might start simply by asking the children to draw something on a sheet of paper that they want represented on the map — a house , a shop , the well , the woods … |
| 25 | Yeah , yeah , cos our , our be inclined to leave something on the front door step and go . |
| 26 | The mirror image of a helix is a precise replica of it except that no amount of turning will allow you to superimpose one on the other . |
| 27 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've learnt from our past mistakes in approaching Thurrock and Nottingham and we 'll use the experience we gain from Southwell to the full at Telford to build something on a far grander scale , ’ Muddle says confidently . |
| 29 | When he moved in the house had five bedrooms , so he decided to convert one on the first floor into an en suite bathroom . |
| 30 | However section 19 permits the constable to seize anything on the premises if he has reasonable grounds for believing either that it has been obtained in consequence of the commission of an offence or that it is evidence in relation to an offence which he is investigating or any other offence . |