Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 2 | We do most humbly refer our cause and ourselves to the Goodness of your Honor and the Company beseeching you to consider favourably of our unfeigned hindrance beside the great loss of our own stock laid down on these mines . |
| 3 | Garages cash in on chipped windscreens |
| 4 | Three cash in on bright ideas |
| 5 | Syrian troops allegedly crack down on pro-Iraqi demonstrators in eastern Syria . |
| 6 | Under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 the NCC must offer a management agreement to any farmer on an SSSI whose application for an agricultural grant it turns down on conservation grounds . |
| 7 | With this kind of work in mind , I obtained permission from the headteacher and the governors to sit in on all appointments that occurred in Bishop McGregor School during my fieldwork between 1983 and 1985 . |
| 8 | They can cash in on good ideas from staff and benefit from many small improvements and occasional large leaps forward . |
| 9 | And if you want to collect ready made salad type things from M&S I am sure you can eat in on some evenings by arrangement , depending on our social plans . |
| 10 | Walsh , chugging along on two cylinders for most of the match , suddenly sparked to life , making the ball cut both ways and always liable to produce one that scuttled through . |
| 11 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 12 | The man , it was the bald one with the glasses , knelt down on both knees and grabbed the bottom and began to kiss it ardently . |
| 13 | Chinese to bear down on environmental lawbreakers |
| 14 | Some weapons home in on infra-red sources , some on radar , others just go where they are told . |
| 15 | Having sat in on many lessons , he produced a list of ten categories of interaction . |
| 16 | This leaves a nice little ladder which I zig zag down on both sides with my sewing machine , then cut up the centre of the ladder . |
| 17 | How the Queen is cracking down on young Royals |
| 18 | He has attempted to come off on several occasions and at the time of interview was undergoing methadone withdrawal and has been heroin-free for two months . ‘ |
| 19 | To sum up on private dispositions . |
| 20 | Briefly , cryostat sections were picked up on poly-L-lysone-coated slides and dried at 37°C for 2 h . |
| 21 | After each flight we were picked up on little points , such as our positioning or the way we were holding the glove : too high or too low , the wrong angle . |
| 22 | Similarly , readers of lowbrow papers were relatively ill-informed about polls before the campaign but caught up on highbrow readers later : the effect of reading a highbrow paper declined from 33 per cent in the Pre-Campaign Wave to only 15 per cent in the closing stages of the campaign . |
| 23 | It was then the moment for old colleagues to catch up on old times . |
| 24 | I want to live — just a few more months , just to have time to catch up on old times . ’ |
| 25 | Diana now looks back on those days at Coleherne Court as the happiest time of her life . |
| 26 | MARY BAILEY looks back on seven years as the cichlid-keeper 's agony aunt . |
| 27 | I do not think , Sir Leonard , that you will need to distribute your I B M questionnaires to calculate the satisfaction level of this session this morning , I think the c rapt attention , the erm , interest and the cl clarity with which you have answered our questions , the ideas I think , which we shall take from your address , some , I might say , to ad to try out on other companies , perhaps , whose record is not as good , I think all of this is of the most enormous value , and as I said at the beginning , I feel very pleased myself , that I live in in a part of the country where we have an I B M presence , and and er , we we value that relationship . |
| 28 | It can moreover lead to endless trouble : there are always children who will opt out on parental instructions or with parental permission , or who may be thought to need alternative provision . |
| 29 | Jan 's pure voice rings out on quiet tracks such as Denim , Blue and Going Nowhere , accompanied either by fellow songwriter Tony Kirkham on acoustic guitar or by herself on piano . |
| 30 | Much ill-feeling was vented out on former collaborators , many of whom faced summary execution before government authority was fully established . |