Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BY NOT PUTTING YOUR BINS OR SACKS OUT ON THE STREET EARLIER THAN THE EVENING BEFORE COLLECTION DAY |
| 2 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 3 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 4 | Then lie or sit down on the nearest piece of furniture , try to keep warm and wait calmly for help to arrive . |
| 5 | ‘ So there was no need to have anything highly scented or smelling strongly on the table , ’ said Henry at once . |
| 6 | The extreme elaboration of the proceedings is intended to emphasize that , in contrast to the kind of marriage which can be entered into or broken off on the spur of the moment , this is a contract which is intended to endure . |
| 7 | The heat shields were still intact and the computer assured him that they would not crack or fall off on the journey through the atmosphere . |
| 8 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 9 | Whether they are jamming the bustling streets of Kowloon , elbowing their way on to ancient trams or leaping about on the terraces at the races , Hong Kong people are enthusiasts . |
| 10 | They are particularly concerned that the poor , elderly and sick will be forced to run up debts or cut down on the amount of electricity , coal , oil and gas they use . |
| 11 | These go on every day in a Home — they wo n't be planned beforehand or written up on a board , they are the little things of everyday life : |
| 12 | Essential for sets , you can sit back and relax with your favourite mag or catch up on the gossip with the girl under the next dryer ! |
| 13 | You can control the amount of ‘ sink ’ by either pulling up , as I am doing here , or pushing down on the boom . |
| 14 | Now of course you may not be able to do anything to change the basic situation — you ca n't very well turn the children out onto the street or walk out on a job just because it is tedious . |
| 15 | If you are a countryman , you may sit by a stream and contemplate a may tree just coming into blossom , or climb up on the ramparts of an iron age hill fort and let your soul soar with the wind . |
| 16 | Robert Jones sparkled , Tony Clement was constantly in the thick of things at fullback , whether kicking long and meaningfully or surging through on the counter-attack . |
| 17 | His mother would find him slumped across the keyboard or face down on the carpet where he had collapsed . |
| 18 | Nor did Mme Guérigny visit the cinema or theatre , or drop in on a neighbour . |
| 19 | Renew contacts with old friends Saturday or drop in on a parent or much loved relative . |
| 20 | If an authority misdirects itself in law , or acts arbitrarily on the basis of considerations which lie outside its statutory powers , or so unreasonably that its decisions can not be justified by any objective standard of reasonableness , then it is the duty and function of the courts to pronounce that such decisions are invalid when these are challenged by anyone aggrieved by them and who has the necessary locus stand I to do so . |
| 21 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 22 | Other horses were sitting or lying comfortably on the floor , on clean blankets . |
| 23 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 24 | Everyone inside knows or speculates endlessly on the politics of power implicit in the most minute gradations of change . |
| 25 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 26 | Sometimes such material is simply tipped-in or stuck down on a blank ; the professional may prefer to inlay it on paper to match the size of the volume , which will often be fairly large . |
| 27 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 28 | Sub-contracting works fine most of the time but if you want something done urgently and the typesetter is broken or tied up on a job for its owner then guess who 's work is going to have to wait . |
| 29 | Other options open to the council include reducing the opening hours of all libraries or cutting back on the money it pends on books . |
| 30 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |