Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [to-vb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
| 2 | We had centuries of contacts to fall back on . |
| 3 | ‘ Fifty to win is a lot of money to lay out on an untried filly . ’ |
| 4 | An attempt was made to take advantage of the morphological structure of words to cut down on storage space and search time . |
| 5 | As Glisseuse emerged from the Swale channel at the Queenborough end , she was picked up by Vigilant and followed to the upper reaches of the Medway while Venturous made all speed round the outside of Sheppey to catch up on the operation which was now well under control . |
| 6 | Braverman 's view is that work-study engineers are not contributing knowledge by their analysis of others ' work : they are acting as eyes and ears of management to find out on their behalf how quickly a job can be done . |
| 7 | One fourth-year student at C explained to me that several experiments conducted in the lab in the first term of the year could not be written up until the second term , after the theory had been presented in the lecture course , which obviously meant a tremendous backlog of work to catch up on . |
| 8 | Often , when I was cycling through the camp after coming off duty , I would spy Thursby in the distance beavering along , head down against the gale , full of eagerness to get back on the job and spot any mistakes we had made during his absence . |
| 9 | Erm , quite how we arrange cos this , as Margaret says there 's a lot of business to get through on occasions , but er , this , this meeting seems to had a lot , but , you know , er whether we could alternate er a business meeting with a , a , a speaker so I thought functional meeting every two months and a speaker attending er , er the other month , erm , I 'm really sussing it open for ideas , what , what do other people feel and |
| 10 | Most subjects have an established body of knowledge to fall back on , but the subject of Earth Mysteries , though rapidly evolving , is still in its infancy and is alive with ideas and speculations on forms and energies in the landscape . |
| 11 | People say Microsoft Corp is making sure there 's a back door in the Alamo : in case Windows NT ca n't cut it , they claim there 's an internal research and development effort up in Bellevue making sure the company has a 32-bit multi-tasking version of MS-DOS to fall back on . |
| 12 | But whenever something does not fit his " spirit of Greek art " , he has a notion — and for eighteenth-century aesthetics it is a disturbingly new notion — of development to fall back on . |
| 13 | Well , Oxfam week 's principally aimed at a house , house to house collection Jane , so we shall be asking a whole lot of people to get out on the streets and to put envelopes through the doors in their neighbourhood and then to go back later on and collect money which we hope people will kindly give us . |
| 14 | We jostled our way through the multitudes until we found a patch of grass to sit down on . |
| 15 | However , it also reflects the desire of government to cut back on spending initiatives . |
| 16 | Somebody stayed in my room all night and , whether it was my father , Diggs or anybody else , I kept them and me awake all night by lying quiet for a while , feigning sleep , then screaming with all my might and falling out of bed to thrash about on the floor . |
| 17 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 18 | I have n't read either , but I think it is smart of HarperCollins to cash in on the classic revival vogue . |
| 19 | Basically , yeah , if I want to , I 've always got a couple of boys to fall back on . |
| 20 | The overhaul of trams to catch up on wartime neglect was taking longer than anticipated and it was decided that Purley depôt , still standing out of use , should be cleared of the war damaged cars collecting dust in its interior and be brought back into use as an annexe to Charlton Works where painting and certain other work could be undertaken . |
| 21 | Ipswich3 Newcastle2 IT IS still mathematically possible for Ipswich to miss out on a place in the Premier League next season , but with five games left against teams from the bottom eight only a fool would bet on it . |
| 22 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 23 | I drove via Barking to call in on Duncan the Drunken before the traffic built up , but his garage was locked and that meant calling at the house . |
| 24 | Synod members were under pressure to crack down on gay clergy , who were portrayed as leading lives of wild abandon ! |
| 25 | Erm And let me remind everybody because I do n't intend erm erm er waiting for for people to cough up on this so I would like to remind people to get , it it 's the thirteenth today . |
| 26 | Alternatively , and in the long term , plan building in cities to cut down on travel overall . |
| 27 | 38 , 51 , afford a sufficient basis for saying that a party would not be allowed in equity to go back on such a promise . |
| 28 | The Chief Constable was also asked to launch a major operation in Wirral to crack down on suppliers . |
| 29 | He postulated that the first step in the differentiation was our ancestors ' adoption of an upright posture in order to move about on open plains instead of in trees . |
| 30 | mode of argument ( g ) : Exemplify theories , terms or approaches , or use a classificatory system to describe a text ( usually in order to reflect back on how suitable or effective the descriptive system is ) . |