Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 2 | When Catherine died , she was all I had left , but you ca n't hang on to young people … they 're not an insurance against loneliness in old age . |
| 3 | But if you do n't mind this cinema verité approach to pornography and you get turned on by freaky-looking people , then the amateur video could introduce you to some interesting new bedtime pals . |
| 4 | All the happening was going on for other people miles away . |
| 5 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 6 | As I mentioned in the chapter on ‘ Teachers ’ , the Bible has got a lot of things to say about how we get on with other people . |
| 7 | To pursue one aim , such as employment , in isolation from the others , such as the ability to travel to and from work and get on with other people , is ineffective . |
| 8 | How you get on with other people . |
| 9 | You will also experience playing as a member of a team in various sports , and how , by co-operating and getting on with other people , you can make a team more successful . |
| 10 | But despite the death the rowing at Oxford went on as normal today. , with crews competing in the traditional college races . |
| 11 | ‘ Some firms have reduced their staffing levels substantially , but people in the industry are generally trying to hold on to experienced staff . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Some firms have reduced their staffing levels substantially , but people in the industry are generally trying to hold on to experienced staff . ’ |
| 13 | Psychoanalysts have talked , for example , about the process of ‘ projection ’ , in which aspects of oneself of which one is fearful may be projected on to other people . |
| 14 | In addition , there are other ways in which property can be passed on to specific people without a will . |
| 15 | For some of us , meeting people is difficult but you do not have to be an outgoing , free and easy character in order to learn to meet and get on with new people . |
| 16 | During 1976 the Firefly 's Rolls-Royce Griffon XII was worked on by local aircraft engineers and they managed to get it running again . |
| 17 | May we learn to get on with other people . |
| 18 | The exercise of cooperating with the other people , even though they 're in the same relative area than in this case it may be use of facilities for leisure , is not very easy and there may be a very very good cause to have a proper course in how to get on with other people , in these sort of cooperative ventures , so thank you for , for drawing our attention to it , it is an interes would be an interesting exercise to . |
| 19 | If the information is n't available ‘ locally ’ , move on to secondary data from overseas sources . |
| 20 | He stood up on his chair all the way through lunch , with the gravy running down his great red face on to his bib and flying off the spoon he was waving on to other people 's clothes ; and in his loud , pharyngitic voice he kept up a perpetual background noise of questions and comments . |