Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe he did splash out on exotic ‘ boilermakers ’ — beer with a Jack Daniels chaser — while the rest of us supped halves of Guinness , and his hands shook a little . |
| 2 | And once in a while Elvis did dash off on some divine business or other . |
| 3 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 4 | It 's attractive , and it 's better , but Borland did miss out on some obvious improvements . |
| 5 | erm one did take up on public individuals if they made a profit have the board not considered perhaps teaming public individuals to run the theatre ? . |
| 6 | Well , I 'm sure John did pick up on certain mannerisms that Malcolm had , not deliberately but because Malcolm did that to people . |
| 7 | yes , do come back on that . |