Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 2 | So , as villagers sadly began to dig up bluebell and primrose roots from the soon-to-be-flooded little woods of their pleasant countryside and to plant them elsewhere on safer ground , the Anglian Water Board asked Dame Sylvia Crowe , the landscape architect , to take on the challenge of turning the proposed 3,000-acre inland sea , with its 27-mile perimeter , into an ‘ environmental asset ’ . |
| 3 | What they believe in is that everybody out there is out to grab as much as they can for their own private interest and they 're prepared to meet them halfway on that . |
| 4 | However , the numerous formal international agreements on the laws of war actually say nothing directly on nuclear weapons . |
| 5 | None of these writers produced research evidence to back up their claims , basing them exclusively on clinical practice and theoretical projections . |
| 6 | Water lay in the ruts and in some places marshy muddy patches had developed where water-grasses grew and the track had spread to pass them now on this side , now on that . |
| 7 | they 're very brave Can dry them off on that |
| 8 | I 'll buy you out on that Ga . |
| 9 | Moreover , Picasso obviously had a more forceful and dynamic personality than Braque , and this had impressed itself strongly on influential critics such as Apollinaire , Salmon and Vauxcelles , with whom he was more friendly than was Braque . |
| 10 | Cos I 've caught you out on that before , yeah . |
| 11 | ‘ I want you in on this . |
| 12 | Place one round on another to make four piles . |
| 13 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 14 | He said , I 'll catch him out on this one . |
| 15 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 16 | The problem the reason we 've let her down on standard bearings is because of this changeover . |
| 17 | Badoglio lost no time in advancing on the capital , Addis Ababa — from which the Emperor , Haile Selassie , had already fled to Britain — and entered it triumphantly on 5 May 1936 . |
| 18 | Its one and only race was 1966 British Grand Prix where Trevor Taylor lined it up on 18th place on the grid and retired during the very first lap . |
| 19 | It was a world he had relinquished with small regret and he had not expected to find it again on Larksoken headland . |
| 20 | We wanted to check the accuracy of an intelligence test for horses , so we tried it out on six horses of known intelligence : three stallions and three mares . |
| 21 | Rufus had propped himself up on one elbow , watching . |
| 22 | Get a bit of brown sauce and tomato sauce , heat them up on that . |
| 23 | Yeah , she do n't give them away on that |
| 24 | ‘ Cost me nigh on that again to restore it back to its original beauty , but it was worth it . |
| 25 | I put them down on that floor . |
| 26 | A word from Graham Gooch soon put me right on that count . |
| 27 | ‘ … so long as you let me in on all the details . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Let me in on this mystery that surrounds Corosini . |
| 29 | How might the book have been different if Liebow had met someone else on that day at the ‘ carry-out ’ ? |
| 30 | Betrayed by that shit Sarah Walker who was once his landlord 's daughter , plunged into crippling debt , mocked by polite society and dinner-table assassins , tortured by a cancer of the stomach , he could still prop himself up on one elbow in a room as shabby as this one and say exultantly ‘ Well , I 've had a happy life ! ’ |