Example sentences of "[verb] on in the [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 2 | I 'd watched Motown and the blues catch on in the Sixties and the roots of all that stuff was laid in the Forties , so the funk was always going to catch on and stay . |
| 3 | According to the DoE 190 square miles of countryside a year were built on in the 1980s ; the CPRE study , however , puts the figure at 460 square miles . |
| 4 | Happened a lot with Cantona too — the famous Chelsea goal came shortly after Cantona came on in the 8 ? th minute . |
| 5 | Both processes are going on in the two locales , sometimes with a single agency carrying out both simultaneously . |
| 6 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 7 | Yes , and an astute decision by Milton 's manager , Keith Stocks , saw substitute Brian Marlan brought on in the sixty eighth minute and two minutes later he was all smiles as he headed home Nigel Mott 's cross to break the deadlock . |