Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 3 | As he wrote years later in his long unpublished memoirs , ‘ hazard or Providence made me knock on the door of the Hôtel Terminus of the Gare du Nord . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone drives on the left , the traffic lights are red , green and amber and people still wait until the lights turn to green before signalling that they 're turning right , leaving you stuck behind them . |
| 5 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 6 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 7 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 8 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 9 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 10 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 11 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 12 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 13 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 14 | Nothing turns on the procedure adopted in this case and it suffices to say that when , on 8 April 1992 , the matter came before Mr. Simon Goldblatt Q.C. , sitting as a deputy High Court judge , the application for an order under the Act of 1975 was made by those who are the defendants in the United States action and it was opposed by the Treasury Solicitor , although purists might perhaps have expected that any opposition would have been made by or on behalf of the Attorney-General , the objection being one taken on behalf of the Crown . |
| 15 | A witness says she saw them knock on the door . ’ |
| 16 | But then , most of them relied on the head men , we used to tell them you see , to keep their mouth shut . |
| 17 | However , I only put a few dozen sheets of paper through the machine , and two of them caught on the wire loop , which creased the paper and caused ink smudges where the machine was still printing . |
| 18 | They have every right to be different — it 's very presumptuous of us to invent personalities for them simply because we 've seen them act on a cinema screen , but it can still be a shock when they 're not as you 'd hoped . |
| 19 | Filled with a need , a hunger that was as much spiritual as bodily , she wanted them to meet on every level , be one in every sense of the word . |
| 20 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 21 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 22 | And she was reported to have er have said when they when they took her out , that there would be nothing nothing grow on the site of the house but runcho And I do n't know the they were awful hungry for land in that day you ken and there was quite , there was more than one occasion there was old folk just putting up with the house just to get the land that it stood on . |
| 23 | Those things do n't sound fearsome — till you see them used on a man 's body . ’ |
| 24 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 25 | Nothing moved on the land . |
| 26 | Nothing moved on the ice . |
| 27 | Nothing moved on the road now except for a man driving eight cows from one pasture to another . |
| 28 | Nothing moved on the bank nor on the catamaran . |
| 29 | Nothing moved on the bank or out on the water . |
| 30 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |