Example sentences of "[adv] on [pron] [vb mod] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it 's a pity cos I mean if we put , if , if Billy went away on I could use it |
| 2 | It is not surprising , therefore , that the main thrust of the anti timber-frame publicity has concentrated more on what could happen , rather than on what has actually happened . |
| 3 | But looking at some still pictures of it I reckon I made a mistake early on which could have denied ‘ Obbo ’ of scoring a more orthodox try . |
| 4 | But as the plane taxied along the runway at Praia airport and I looked out on what could have been a simulated view from a lunar module , I sensed how daunting the task would be . |
| 5 | They turn the water off , and then when they say do you want the water back on you can have a meter , but they do n't tell you , you pay thirty five pound a quarter for the meter , and that 's without a bit of water going through it . |
| 6 | However , this carries the risk that what is being implemented may need to be later unravelled because of second thoughts and if the original putting together of a change costs effort and resentment , going back on it may create further difficulties of relationships . |
| 7 | By the time when he began to work most intensively on what would become The Waste Land , Eliot was neither god nor martyr . |
| 8 | If I 'd told you about the entry earlier on it might have lulled you into a false sense of complacency . |
| 9 | Bartlett 's recall may be elusive , while the popular Roland Lefebvre is left pondering sadly on what might have been if he had not suffered that pre-season arm injury in a misplaced prank involving Sussex 's Brad Donelan . |