Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although you may not want to go on a course , or can not afford to , it is a good idea to ask a friend or relative you feel comfortable with to play the part of the interviewer and let you have a dummy run . |
| 2 | I do n't really want to go on a Saturday . |
| 3 | If the former involves drawing on a richness of tacit knowledge the latter is necessarily concerned with reversing this process , ie with making explicit the tacit richness of design activity . |
| 4 | Alright er Stephen do you want to sit on a stool son T V ? |
| 5 | When they got out they were taken inside a building and made to sit on a stone floor that was gritty and unswept . |
| 6 | Former Queensland Premier and National Party leader Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen walked free from the Brisbane District Court on Oct. 19 after a jury failed to agree on a verdict in his trial for perjury . |
| 7 | They failed to agree on a design , but the ‘ modern ’ image of electric cooking , particularly among young housewives , led to a gradual expansion of cooker sales . |
| 8 | Thus deadlock can occur if and only if the environment offers to communicate on a set of channels disjoint from one of the sets represented by the |
| 9 | Apart from that they could 've sat on a wall and done exactly the same thing , she was in the street . |
| 10 | It follows an incident in which a horse became trapped on a gate . |
| 11 | There are frequent occasions in a drama session when children are divided into groups and asked to work on a task . |
| 12 | Whistling to himself , Henry laid the table , while , in the corner of the kitchen , Maisie finished her last chocolate bar and got to work on a packet of crisps , a tube of Rollos , half a pound of jellybabies and a jumbo bar of Turkish delight . |
| 13 | They each fall utterly under his spell and promise to obey him in everything , whereupon he tells them that he has to go on a journey and gives them the keys of his magnificent house but forbids them to enter a room which is opened by a particular little key . |
| 14 | I 've got this friend who is slim , and she keeps saying she has to go on a diet , so you think : well , if she had to go on a diet , what must I be like ? |
| 15 | Every Strathclyde pupil is expected to go on a school trip involving an overnight stay at some point during their schooling , though their parents would have to give their consent to this . |
| 16 | And I said I ca n't wait to go on a diet , ! |
| 17 | One of his pupils , Roger Lancelyn Green , has commented on a letter which Lewis wrote to Warnie describing the ‘ English binge ’ at Christmas 1931 . |
| 18 | Designed to sit on a table or beside your bed , it contains a pad impregnated with natural oils that are warmed and released into the air ; three heat settings control the rate of vaporisation . |
| 19 | Neither has the polarity between Male and Female which we so take for granted ever been based on rock-solid foundations , but has depended on a variety of shifting meanings . |
| 20 | In many cases the granting of such credits has depended on a country 's general creditworthiness . |
| 21 | When you want to borrow on a mortgage , the prospective lenders will have the property valued at your expense . |
| 22 | It was Vietnam wrongs and civil rights more than scandals that rained down on Lyndon Johnson ‘ like a Longhorn steer pissing on a rock ’ , as less delicate Texans were wont to put it . |
| 23 | Four youngsters were plucked to safety yesterday after becoming trapped on a cliff ledge at Seaham after the tide cut them off . |
| 24 | The hon. Gentleman is so distinguished that it may be some time since he has sat on a Standing Committee . |
| 25 | Quigley leaped into the air like a monkey that has sat on a bunsen burner and gave a sort of primal grunt . |
| 26 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |
| 27 | South Buckinghamshire district council has objected on a number of grounds . |
| 28 | If you are using a lot of roses in your pressed flower pictures , you may find it worthwhile making up a small stock of finished roses in different colours to save time when you are in an inspired mood and want to concentrate on a design rather than the various techniques involved . |
| 29 | Brown has come on a kind of pilgrimage to the heart of urban blight . |
| 30 | At a subsequent season they were less keen when they found they were expected to work on a raft near the famous Sporting Club . |