Example sentences of "[pron] [adv prt] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it became darker , the trees denser , thicker , hemming them in on all sides as Thomas guided their horses along some secret path known only to him . |
| 2 | And and and of course now that er now that we 've got the total business beginning to operate as one , the chances of letting them down on standard bearings is very much smaller than it ever was before . |
| 3 | Kathy Rooney , who worked with Barry Cockcroft for many years at Yorkshire Television , escorted me down on both occasions . |
| 4 | I have seen your temper help you out on several occasions . ’ |
| 5 | It 's two nil to Notts , it 's stuff here because Tony scored and he had n't scored previously this season when he banged one in on eight minutes . |
| 6 | Others want first editions from greed for rarity and will pay almost any price to secure it , and yet others because they want to put one over on other collectors . |
| 7 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 8 | When the children were older , Green took them out on longer walks , when he was painting or drawing in the hills , and occasionally took one of them on one of his excursions , when he would stay away from Ambleside for a week or more . |
| 9 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 10 | While he was there he learnt to fly with the University Air Squadron and was in despair when , on the outbreak of war , the RAF initially turned him down on medical grounds . |
| 11 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 12 | Men had beaten him up on several occasions , for no apparent reason . |
| 13 | Er I do n't know how many of you made wills but er draw him out on other things if you 've got any problems I mean we we had quite an interesting session at one of the power station talks on a er tenant er tenancy agreement that a chap had been bothered about for some years . |
| 14 | I noticed that Lizzie was more ‘ laid back ’ with her than with her first daughter , lending her out on many occasions to Kim and Annie , females who , as yet , have n't become mothers themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ Anything could happen to her out on those hills alone , anything … ’ |
| 16 | Plumbing it in on most sprayers involves running a supply pipe from between the pressure relief valve and tank return line . |
| 17 | I 've pointed it out on many occasions . |
| 18 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 19 | Swindon hauled themselves back on level terms after 22 minutes , when defender Shaun Taylor forced in a storming header following a corner . |
| 20 | Adcock almost netted again with a header barely a minute later but Swindon hauled themselves back on level terms after 22 minutes , defender Shaun Taylor forcing in a storming header . |
| 21 | He 'd suddenly take us off on crazy weekends . |
| 22 | ‘ You mean in case Blenkinsop 's successor puts us back on short rations ? |
| 23 | The clans are gone and we stray about , waifs in our own homeland , letting government suck us in and swallow us and spew us out on foreign shores . |