Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much actual , constructive or imputed knowledge does an exchange have of what goes on on its own trading floor ? |
| 2 | I get on with it most of the afternoon , and I 've still got a stack of unopened buff envelopes in my hand as I head doggedly back up the little twisting staircase and sit down on my hard box seat to get on with it again up here , a task which now looks likely to keep me here after everyone else has gone home . |
| 3 | He sort of got down on his back legs . |
| 4 | They had been briefed to report in on their mobile telephone at certain checkpoints en route , and to inform the Ops Room of any suspicious incidents , but their main task was to stop and talk to locals , in order to make their presence known in as friendly a way as possible . |
| 5 | The big lattice-patterned bed in Guy 's room brought back the moment when he 'd marched in on her unannounced that first night . |
| 6 | Escape to the magic of Camelot and cash in on our fantastic offer . |
| 7 | Italy left the counter to the very last seconds with their scrum-half touching down on his own kick through . |
| 8 | Rufus would n't have wanted to go and he would have had to go down on his own by train . |
| 9 | Jilted pilot drops in on his old love |
| 10 | ‘ The next day , ’ says Futch , ‘ I drove out to the course , which was covered in snow , to find Riddick chugging along on his own . |
| 11 | This is a different Switzerland , an area where places to play and places to relax somehow live side by side with that never-to-be-suppressed Swiss past , which looks down on it all , smiling benevolently but quietly insisting that the twentieth century must keep its place and show respect . |
| 12 | Her flailing palm cracked down on his eager butt , turning the skin a bright pink . |
| 13 | ‘ No doubt why you honed in on me that night . ’ |
| 14 | Branches clawed at her hair and she felt like she had done years ago , waiting for Jezrael to catch up , knowing she was going to be late for school , but she could n't leave her sister to struggle in on her own . |
| 15 | Rincewind turned in his saddle and glanced as Twoflower 's Luggage , which was currently ambling along on its little legs , occasionally snapping its lid at butterflies . |
| 16 | Suddenly , she had a new set of memories , crowding in on her own . |
| 17 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ He was just a bloke walking along on his own . ’ |
| 19 | She rarely goes out and has never been beyond the street she lives in on her own . |
| 20 | They were carried along on their gently-moving conveyor belt at a speed of about one and a half kilometres an hour , while they made determinations of the viscosity of the lava beneath the rubbly crust , and eventually hopped off again , none the worse for wear . |
| 21 | There is no loss of liberty in being carried along on our strongest desire , even when , because of the external circumstances of physical threat , that desire is to turn away from satisfying some other desire . |
| 22 | ‘ On Saturday the 14th , I was carried off on my reserve team debut at Arsenal with ruptured anterior cruciate knee ligaments . |
| 23 | Dorothy had glared phlegmatically around and said that would teach the silly little wretch to wander off on his own ; it was Helen who had rushed to and fro and eventually found Edward , white with shock , cowering beside one of the tills . |
| 24 | The social worker seemed to be dangling that last word before Gilly 's nose , as if expecting her to jump up on her hind legs and dance for it . |
| 25 | And I think perhaps it 's it lacks a bit of importance , you know , it has n't got the strength erm to stand up on its own . |
| 26 | ‘ The clothes were fit to stand up on their own , they were that stiff with dust and grease . |
| 27 | does have the right to stand up on his hind legs again . |
| 28 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 29 | It was downright sinister and the fact that Glyn had picked up on her uneasy feelings left her more uneasy still . |
| 30 | Basically , it was a late surviving example of 19th century employers ' attitudes towards their staff : checking up on them all the time or they 'd have their hands in the till , It was straight out of H.G. Wells ' Mr Kipps . |