Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 2 | The employer said it had been attempting to tighten up on the very widespread practice of employees going for tea immediately after clocking on . |
| 3 | Lighting , heating , ventilation have all been carried out on the most approved modern principles . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And then I came back on the forth to start off with the stocktaking which is not on the agenda I think . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | I 'm going out on the not a special exit but a normal exit tomorrow yeah ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 14 | I was flying back on the 9am British Airways shuttle from the EC Summit on Saturday morning . |
| 15 | Here 's a tough but effective way of honing in on the most meaningful elements of your life . |
| 16 | Sitting with the curtains open and the moon shining in on the barely begun big glass , he wrote , sitting keeping vigil with it all night after my walk with Paz , I was afraid . |
| 17 | When I arrived , the village was deathly quiet ; a few fishing boats were pulled up on the shingly beach but there was no activity . |
| 18 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 19 | Ignoring this , the present Government has cut back on the already poorly resourced Youth Training and Employment Training programme . |
| 20 | Certain men have been trying to get in on the politically correct act for a while . |
| 21 | They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces . |
| 22 | Could always be relied upon to break down on the most dangerous stretch of the motorway . |
| 23 | Those who had previously found part of their income from ironmaking were thrown back on the less adequate resources of Wealden farming , although a small number of nomads continued to burn charcoal for the London market , camping in branch and sod hovels as they migrated from wood to wood . |
| 24 | The Sunday Telegraph ( February 1961 ) cashed in on the rapidly expanding quality Sunday market , built up most effectively by the Sunday Times ( whose colour magazine started in the same year ) . |
| 25 | She sat down on the heavily bolstered arm of a brocade chair opposite her hostess . |
| 26 | Any book with an American look on its cover , a trilby , a turned-up collar , a gun and a mean expression , is snapped up on the rapidly growing street markets . |
| 27 | Gannon was an odd choice although few people picked up on the seemingly obvious fact that he was a rhythm guitarist and not a bass player . |
| 28 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |