Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gentoo is a large penguin , standing over sixty centimetres tall and is more like the king penguin in its habits , preferring to come ashore on sandy beaches and establish ‘ rookeries ’ up on nearby hillsides . |
| 2 | They can be easily manoeuvred , but tend to slip downhill on any pronounced slope . |
| 3 | If , also like me , you have a weakness for stockpiling past copies of nursing journals because you intend to catch up on such and such an article , then it is worth investing in some proper journal binders . |
| 4 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 5 | " Well , then , " she continued , with what seemed to her to be the very height of aware sophistication , " why ever did you want to come here on this sort of trip ? " |
| 6 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 7 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 8 | Do you want to come back on that ? |
| 9 | Mr do you want to come back on that ? |
| 10 | Do you want to come back on that Mr or do you want to wait a few moments ? |
| 11 | Mr , did you want to come back on that one ? |
| 12 | Now in Oxford erm we actually do n't have any land like that , and the problem was that , even if we had self-build houses on the land which is available at the moment , on which we want to build council houses but we have n't got the money to build council houses , if we were to allow self- build to go ahead on those sites because of the value of the land then the sorts of people who would actually be able to afford them would not be people on low incomes , or even sort of low to medium incomes , they would actually be people who were fairly well off and therefore not the people that we would want to be directing our resources at . |
| 13 | If your equipment has to go outside on open roads or gravelled surfaces , remember castors are not always suitable . |
| 14 | Other companies in sectors such as oil and communications must also have way-leaves for work they want to carry out on private land . |
| 15 | The problems are not all one-sided , however , as it may be that a supplier of equipment or software has to fall back on contractual remedies . |
| 16 | Mr , you want to come back on that . |
| 17 | people to call now three four three four three four if you want to come in on this . |
| 18 | If you want to come in on any of this three four three four three four you can call now . |
| 19 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 20 | Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’ |
| 21 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 22 | You do not have to continue with stage 1 exercises if you find no further need of them or you want to concentrate fully on these harder exercises ! |
| 23 | In this short talk , I propose to concentrate just on two things . |
| 24 | Restoration of the Asylum Bill , designed to crack down on bogus refugees . |
| 25 | Right , I want to pick up on I 've started looking at your tests , the history of language ones and I 've actually marked only the section where you actually re-wrote the er , early modern English extract , and I want to pick up on that instantly , and talk about that and the ways you you , the way you can go around , no I 'm not gon na give you that . |
| 26 | The Brent now appear to feed mainly on these plants . |
| 27 | Although the worms appear to feed entirely on mucosal material the incidental damage to blood vessels can cause considerable haemorrhage . |
| 28 | ‘ Ninety-nine percent of vampires are real nice people , ’ he said , ‘ But we want to crack down on phoney vampires who are getting us a bad name . ’ |
| 29 | Anyway , if you want to chip in on that . |
| 30 | After an examination procedure lasting on average 13 months , only about 9 per cent were found to be genuine political refugees , but many others stayed on illegally or were permitted to do so on humanitarian grounds . |