Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 2 | He had had to stand her up on their second date . |
| 3 | The best test of hay is to buy a bale before you buy a truck-load , and to try it out on your horse or horses . |
| 4 | We have still to try it out on relations between persons . |
| 5 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 6 | You 've got to work it out on the basis of ten miles not on the basis of five miles . |
| 7 | So , sure , we do need rote-learning , we do need to be able to say ‘ Three times four is twelve ’ , we must n't have to work it out on our fingers . |
| 8 | At each end are two women : young one , lying on front and side , half-wrapped in her mantle as a blanket and beginning to pull it up on her shoulder as a dress while she lifts herself to look towards the centre ; and an old one with cropped hair , a slave , fully dressed , beginning to get to her knees . |
| 9 | She felt Adam 's ribs swell suddenly as he took in a huge breath ; he thrust her away from him , seized hold of the roof slab as if to pull it down on top of them ; and screamed . |
| 10 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
| 11 | Since no detailed register of these existed at the point of emancipation , one of the main purposes of the post-1861 charters was to set them down on paper . |
| 12 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 13 | It 's just to pick you up on a couple of points . |
| 14 | It sets out , by example as well as by direct command , the differences between right and wrong , so that the man who measures his conduct by Bible standards gains from it both " reproof " when he is in the wrong and " correction " to set him back on a right course . |
| 15 | Looking back at his forlorn figure as the car had accelerated away , she 'd wondered if there might be some way to set him back on his rails . |
| 16 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 17 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 18 | It is easier to bring off if you have an assistant to hold the camcorder , otherwise , you have to set it up on a tripod or some other suitable support and switch it on with a remote control or time-delay . |
| 19 | No you do n't want to tip it out on there cos you get germs darling |
| 20 | He were a remarkable man in his way : he went down a well to clean it out on the day he died . |
| 21 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 22 | And we 'd dredge 'em up and they and they used to pick 'em up on a bucket , go in there , pick 'em on a bucket and of course instead of them going over , the tumbler , into the harbour , we used to have to put a chain round and 'em off , cos if not they 'd have gone over them , tumbler and damaged the chute . |
| 23 | Simon would you like to lead us through on your document ? |
| 24 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 25 | David advised me to sound you out on it . |
| 26 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 27 | I said now you can shut that up right away , cos I said you know it 's not I said er now if you want us to try to help you out on this you just tell us what you did . |
| 28 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 29 | But say the figure had been erm fo he 's travelling at forty eight point three miles an hour , and you want to know how far he 's gone after twenty seven minutes or something , it 's a bit more awkward then so it 'd be easier to look it up on a graph . |
| 30 | Ed snatched it up and tried vainly to stick it back on . |