Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you see I sit down on a I sit down on a fairly regular basis with now and try to give her direction and er point out , and I do make the point , about every time and , right ? |
| 2 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 3 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 4 | While most thoughts are still on London , RUNNING Magazine 's Publisher Nick Williams looks back on a very different kind of marathon at Lanzarote 's Club La Santa |
| 5 | Until fairly recently , forestry has often been carried out on a very big scale , with tens of thousands of hectares being covered and public access made difficult . |
| 6 | The instances of large numbers of birds having been shot or trapped for food , or rare specimens collected , is well documented , and in Sussex was often carried out on a very considerable scale . |
| 7 | To one of those , Taddeo Ugoleto , Matthias gave the care and control of the library : ‘ Ugoleto sought out Greek codexes for the library and copying was carried out on a far greater scale than ever before . |
| 8 | This review process needs to be carried out on a fairly regular basis , perhaps every six months , and it should include looking at the current state of the market to see if there are any new developments that can be applied . |
| 9 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 10 | However , BIG BEAT , 9-2 with Hills and Ladbrokes , could well have crept in on a very lenient mark . |
| 11 | But it will be harder to crack down on the really powerful and harmful culprits in the shadow economy — the state bureaucrats who use their privileged access to goods heavily subsidized by the state to make fat profits for themselves . |
| 12 | It was as though everyone had dashed off on a far bigger , far better story than they had covered in their lives . |
| 13 | And it was able to set off on a totally different , and more professional , tack . |
| 14 | Looking back on the almost thirty-year-long era of the series , one does not automatically think of these essential mammerial features of the femme fatale when talking about Miss Sims . |
| 15 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 16 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 17 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 18 | I 'm going out on the not a special exit but a normal exit tomorrow yeah ? |
| 19 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 20 | To coin a phrase by John , I live in a very small house said Confucius , but my windows look out on a very large world . |
| 21 | From the Hotel Cavalletto you look out on the most typical of Venetian scenes , as here the public rooms are bordered by a narrow waterfront where gondoliers come and go with their passengers . |
| 22 | A year from now , in all likelihood , the world will look back on a merely disappointing year of little or no growth in Britain and America , of solid progress in Germany and Japan , of catastrophes skirted in the Gulf and the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | A police car streaked by on the relatively traffic-free side of the M4 , its siren 's wail mournful , and the flashing light replaced the sodium yellow filling the car taking my mind to another time . |
| 24 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 25 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 26 | WHEN Ronnie Moran was first thrust into the Liverpool manager 's chair 14 months ago , the team he inherited from Kenny Dalglish proceeded to lose three successive matches before getting back on an even keel to prepare for the arrival of Graeme Souness . |
| 27 | A few years later in 917 King Edward added a vast planned town to the south , laid out on a slightly skewed grid and with a massive open market place on its east . |
| 28 | It is n't good enough to fall back on a somewhat arbitrary list of subjects without specific aims . |
| 29 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 30 | The limb is no exception , which means that the basic pattern of the limb is laid down on a very small scale . |