Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You run the UK end and I 'll branch out here in Majorca … that 's if Maria Luisa wants to go on living on the island . |
| 2 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 3 | The dual carriageway is just of the motorway and people are gearing up to go on the motorway . |
| 4 | FRONT COVER : Jonathan Tomlinson 's home-built 250hp tractor has speeded up silaging on the family livestock farm at Holt , Wrexham , and for contract work . |
| 5 | There are various ways in which this can be carried out depending on the age of the child and level of control of the parents . |
| 6 | After further discussion , a similar exercise was carried out based on the RI category , with the results also indicating that most internal information storage and transfer needs were met within the EPH in an effective manner . |
| 7 | Regression analyses were carried out based on the results of both otoscopy and tympanometry but only those for otoscopic findings are reported to avoid repetition . |
| 8 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 9 | I mean you mentioned the tennis club which was great , you know you went back there but you know that was a , a wee thing to pick on depending on the company |
| 10 | While the so-called ‘ superminis ’ — cars like the Peugeot 205 and the new Ford Fiesta — grow larger and more expensive , the Eastern bloc car makers have quietly crept in to capitalise on the market for more affordable transport . |
| 11 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 12 | His parachute was caught by turbulence as he came in to land on a school playing field . |
| 13 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 14 | John and wife Pam had written off to appear on the programme only to discover there were 10,000 applicants . |
| 15 | She made me coffee , gave me hugs , and at one point I fell asleep , and was at peace for a while , and woke up sprawled on the floor , my head on her lap , one gentle hand stroking my head . |
| 16 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 17 | Remove and spread out to dry on a rack in an airy place ; if not thoroughly dry , it becomes mouldy later — then store in airtight containers between greaseproof paper . |
| 18 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 19 | Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain . |
| 20 | Unless she 's been fiddling the books — and my accountant does n't think so — the profits your Miss Philimore has been turning in seem on the low side for a site like that . |
| 21 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 22 | The reasons for this phenomenon is as follows : firstly , each lender has its own system of calculating gross interest and secondly , when base rates rise or fall , lenders are at liberty to delay or hurry up passing on the benefits/bad news to their customers . |
| 23 | On each occasion the fish ends up lying on the tank floor breathing heavily until it dies . |
| 24 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 25 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 26 | Charlie 's going out to check on the territory and strike up a deal . |
| 27 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 28 | Central sensitisation and wind up depend on the activity of N -methyl-D-aspartic acid ( NMDA ) receptors in the dorsal horn . |
| 29 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 30 | How much to put in depends on the population of fish , including other species , for you can not prevent roach , perch , tench and carp etc. , from feeding on your offerings . |