Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fought a terrifying battle , only perhaps to drown on the sea floor . |
| 2 | Fair enough not to decide on the phone on the basis of my say-so , but — ’ He did n't finish . |
| 3 | The only difference was that most of them had finished long enough ago to sunbathe on the terrace , not trudging off the mountain at 9.00 o'clock . |
| 4 | Just before half-time , Doherty had a strong header well saved , while Johnston nipped in well to get on the end of a Beatty cross only to be forced wide by the keeper . |
| 5 | Depth is half the game in lock-picking ; the other half is getting enough leverage for the turn , since even a proper pick has no shaft going right through to rest on the end ward like a real key . |
| 6 | Its not right to experiment on the saturday . |
| 7 | She stares straight ahead , but she has opened the window just enough to eavesdrop on the interview taking place on the pavement outside , between Rainbow and the little dove . |
| 8 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 9 | ‘ But when you go on telly there has to be some compromise , like I swear all the f—ing time , but that does n't bother me , I do n't feel like I 'm selling my life away just to get on the telly . ’ |
| 10 | It began to prove its value when the members of pupils ' own groups helped each other and came not always to rely on the initiative or instruction of the teacher-tutor . |
| 11 | We reject the compulsory route that is favoured by the Labour party , which will never understand that the way forward is to motivate and to encourage and to give people the incentives that they need to make the most of the opportunities that are available to them , not simply to rely on the dead hand of compulsion . |
| 12 | Mr Deputy Speaker I 'm just about to come on the South Wales police but I will answer the point directly , er I and my honourable friend the parliamentary secretary are always willing to discuss with local government , matters relating to local government finance and we have done so over the months leading up to this settlement and my honourable and right honourable friends in the Home Office are always willing to discuss matters on the police er where they are important and warrant a ministerial meeting and that again has happened recently with the Home Office min minister discussing this very issue . |
| 13 | ‘ Only a rose — ’ I began as I held out my offering to my husband and I was just about to start on the second line when a Yorkshire pudding with onion gravy flew past my head and stuck with a plop on the ceiling . |
| 14 | But the greatest advance in regularity was soon about to descend on the world in which I found myself : the introduction of a complex railway system which depended on exact and uniform timing over whole countries , not on the vagaries of a church steeple or a parson 's watch . |
| 15 | Recalling Marshall McLuhan 's dictum that ‘ the medium is the message ’ , the novel posits the possibility of an obligatory shift in the primary medium of communication from oral and cybernetic forms to a ‘ secondary literacy ’ in which the world is required once again to rely on the written word . |
| 16 | A GAMBLE on Omidjoy , backed from 66-1 to 14-1 for the opener at Leicester yesterday , failed by the narrowest of margins when odds-on Fair Maid Of Kent got up again to lead on the line . |
| 17 | The station and train staff are always very courteous and helpful ; quite often the guard takes the trouble to help me on or off with the bike ; and station staff are good at guessing in advance what part of the train will take the bike , hence where to stand on the platform . |
| 18 | They also pointed out that there was no room service and Maggie sank back down to sit on the bed and nurse her aching face . |
| 19 | When I 'd had a bite and patrolled the area , I went back home to sit on the garage roof and have a leisurely wash . |
| 20 | Make it a loose fit over the frame and deep enough to rest on the base-board . |
| 21 | As you do so , take your arms up and then down to rest on the floor above your head . |
| 22 | The Government is currently reviewing all the laboratories to identify how best to build on the progress made by each of them towards becoming more commercial and cost-conscious organisations . |
| 23 | They took great care and were concentrating on a small area , trying hard not to tread on the bones . |
| 24 | Enthusiasm largely fizzled out when the delay in implementation was announced , and the ad hoc , laissez-faire government approach of letting authorities decide for themselves how fast and how enthusiastically to move on the proposals is exacerbated by a lack of ministerial drive and an absence of central government leadership in the mental health field . |
| 25 | The sparkle of spray , the glassy mist hanging over the water were pretty enough to taste on the tongue . |
| 26 | The health authorities say it is too soon to comment on the implications of the figures as yet as they still have to be assessed in the light of the type and ages of the people who responded . |
| 27 | The health authorities say it is too soon to comment on the implications of the figures as yet as they still have to be assessed in the light of the type and ages of the people who responded . |
| 28 | It tended too often to falter on the issue of provision , and it seriously underestimated the extent to which professional attitudes and understanding are vital factors in the improvement of practice . |