Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Inspection shows that whereas the clock has pulsed 12 times , X1 has pulsed on 6 times and X2 only 3 . |
| 2 | Her mother said she 'd fallen on hard times . |
| 3 | This Welcome break restaurant has suffered such a drop in trade that staff have agreed to work on short time , with a cut in wages , to try and keep it going until the bridge reopens . |
| 4 | ‘ I took a plumbers apprenticeship when I left school , ’ he said , ‘ But after I 'd worked here for a while , I decided to stay on full time . ’ |
| 5 | Much the same might be said of David Capel , another member of that 1990 Caribbean party to have fallen on hard times . |
| 6 | The old building seems to have fallen on hard times , for on September 13th 1976 at a meeting of the owners , the A.P.C.M. , and the Health Dept. it was decided that No. 3 Chapel Houses tenanted by Mr T. Hawkins , was not suitable as living accommodation and the Housing Services Committee placed a Closing Order on the premises . |
| 7 | overlap with auction house chatter in that aristos are always selling the contents of the servants ' hall if they 've fallen on super-taxed times , or buying things if their grandfathers went offshore . |
| 8 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 9 | The aim is to raise money for any former resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times and to say thank you for the help they gave to our servicemen : |
| 10 | They 're raising money to help former Belgian resistance workers who 've fallen on hard times . |
| 11 | She was not impressed when her spouse informed her there was a member of the gentry below , for the only visitors of that sort to frequent her humble hostelry were those who had fallen on evil times . |
| 12 | It was in the summer of 1959 that a man with untidy hair , a crumpled suit and pens clipped to his outside breast pocket , looking like a schoolmaster who had fallen on hard times , boarded a plane at London Airport for East Berlin . |
| 13 | Racking the brains because a friend had fallen on hard times — the engine of his old VW has dropped a valve . |
| 14 | He had seen Hugo from time to time in the intervening years ; he knew from Hugo 's cousin Christian that his former tutor had fallen on hard times . |
| 15 | The club had fallen on hard times , and the arrival of a travelling circus of the long hairs , trainee freaks and happening performers seemed like a good idea . |
| 16 | ‘ Many are perfectly normal — except that they 've hit on hard times . |
| 17 | One of the factors common to businesses that have fallen on hard times is an inability to adapt and change and a failure to recognise that the market place is changing around them . |
| 18 | But there will be pressure on the company to produce ‘ quick fixes ’ for traditional industries that have fallen on hard times . |
| 19 | At 21 she is set for stardom , but she still finds time for people who have fallen on hard times . |
| 20 | In ‘ The Real Thing ’ a painter is offered the services of an extremely genteel couple who have fallen on hard times and are willing to act as models for his illustrations of aristocratic life . |
| 21 | Now these in their turn have fallen on hard times at a time of agricultural rather than industrial recession . |
| 22 | It is a time when those who have fallen on bad times have their freedom and property restored . |