Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [v-ing] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd like to welcome you all , and thank you very much for coming on time . |
| 2 | In fact , plans to slow down before going on maternity leave went out of the window when C&R became involved in its most significant transaction to date — the rescue and restructuring of another quoted property company . |
| 3 | It is also a real lesson in how to avoid the obvious without being freakish , how to start with the stimulus of a hot vegetable dish , how to vary the eternal purée of potatoes with your meat ( lacking chestnut flour we could try instead a purée of lentils or split peas ) , how to follow it with a fresh , bright , unexpected salad ( that excellent mixture of corn salad and beetroot — how often does one meet with it nowadays ? ) and since by that time most people would have had enough without embarking on cheese , de Pomiane is brave enough to leave it out . |
| 4 | For years she 'd sympathised hugely with those performers who 'd become stricken with nerves just before going on stage — she even knew one world-famous name who regularly had to rush back to the dressing-room from the wings to be ill . |
| 5 | Rather like mainlining on toothpaste , we are told . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm going to treat them all , ’ he vowed yesterday after winning on No 87 in Game 223 . |
| 7 | ‘ He always whacks off before going on TV , ’ says Fred . |
| 8 | He did come close to going on pension once at the age of 75 he sent off a perfunctory letter asking for retirement . |
| 9 | The recovery of the economy was already under way by the spring of 1961 , and probably owed less to the steps mentioned and more to spending on defence and space exploration . |
| 10 | ‘ We started off by concentrating on hardback fiction and mass market paperbacks because we wanted to build a paperback backlist as quickly as possible to get regular sales going through each month . |
| 11 | One Sunday I was so fed up with living on Kit Kats that I called my mum . |
| 12 | Perhaps because my own PhD , many years before , had been taken up with working on protein phosphorylation without fully realizing its significance ( Chapter 3 ) the temptation to explore it in the chick proved irresistible . |
| 13 | The London Philharmonic could , for instance , perform at the Festival Hall without the boring necessity of tuning up before going on stage . |
| 14 | ‘ I get the biggest buzz out of getting on stage . |
| 15 | Shadow Education Secretary Ann Taylor accused the Government of cutting back on spending on school repairs but spending £6.8 million — almost three times its original budget — on education publicity . |
| 16 | Having been reduced now to travelling on foot , he could not make the return journey to Bristol in a day , and Sara too often found herself left lonely and uneasy in a cottage whose attractions were not increased by the coming of winter , or by neighbours who were ‘ a little too tattling and inquisitive ’ . |
| 17 | ON ONE hand the Government is concerned about the vocational needs of children while on the other it wants to turn the clock back by insisting on paper and pencil testing instead of exploring what children really need . |
| 18 | I doubt if we shall get far by concentrating on opportunity ; it 's motive that matters in this case . ’ |
| 19 | Industry analysts say long term growth in technical areas could wither without the lure of profits tomorrow for spending on research today . |
| 20 | The potential here for passing on information , and selling RBGE products , is almost limitless . |
| 21 | Dury 's reputation as something of a hellraiser has been sustained by a couple of recent incidents : what he describes as his ‘ bit of bother at the opera ’ ( a minor fracas enthusiastically reported by the tabloid newspapers ) and an appearance on Nicky Campbell 's Radio 1 show , when Dury , who had dined well before going on air , spoke with unusual frankness on a number of subjects . |
| 22 | But even by relying on biomass , Sweden will not meet its targets unless its overall energy needs are reduced by efficient technology . |
| 23 | Wytch Farm managers have also been on a teambuilding exercise — but instead of sailing on water , however , they went to ground ! |
| 24 | But instead of working on Varsity , the established undergraduate paper , he was already determined to be different . |
| 25 | There were other alleged cases when guards were playing scrabble instead of going on patrol and one was said to be unfit for work through drink . |
| 26 | Instead of suffering on behalf of that poor betrayed girl , she should be fighting for all such children . |
| 27 | When the man in the wallpaper shop was he was tried flogging floor tiles instead of concentrating on wall coverings and so on . |