Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nor did Mme Guérigny visit the cinema or theatre , or drop in on a neighbour . |
| 6 | Renew contacts with old friends Saturday or drop in on a parent or much loved relative . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Before settling an agreement or starting out on a particular course of conduct , a number of fundamental factors have to be taken into consideration . |
| 12 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 13 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 14 | No books left lying about , no newspapers scattered or folded untidily on a table , no dirty cups or glasses . |
| 15 | here you can take a gentle stroll around the lake , or start off on a more strenuous hike . |
| 16 | Give yourself a massage either standing up or sitting down on a towel . |
| 17 | Adults eat to excess to ease depression , turn to the bottle for comfort or suck contentedly on a pipe . |
| 18 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 19 | By wiping the screen with a special tissue every couple of months the electrostatic field that builds up on a monitor screen can be discharged . |
| 20 | After the contestants hit their tee shots to the splendid par-3 that sits out on a bluff high above the boiling Pacific surf , they take their leave of the gallery until they return to the contiguous United States via Cypress ' par-4 17th hole . |
| 21 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 22 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
| 23 | Except ride round on a horse and pen a few articles when the mood took her . |
| 24 | I think one of the things the American companies often do is that , rather than set up on a green field site , they often buy into an existing company , erm , and therefore it 's , it 's , it 's a , it 's a somewhat different form of investment to the |
| 25 | But quite clearly this is a more expensive use of beds in residential establishments , when people simply come in for a matter of days or week or two weeks , rather than coming in on a permanent basis . |
| 26 | With a natural , sculptural quality , it can outshine any number or works of art or ornaments and , what 's more , at a fraction of the price if you buy and nurture a smaller plant rather than shelling out on a large , expensive specimen a nursery has grown on for you . |
| 27 | and my heart went some where else and I think erm , the , the marriage erm , the love in my marriage was definitely killed by an act which my partner did and I would fall into the crimes of passion I think because I mean to , to me he committed the deadly sin of all and that was adultery and I could never forgive him for that and I think that picks up on a lot , many issues which have been raised tonight about you have to have trust in a partnership , you have to give and take and people change and some people can accept all that but I was not willing to do so . |
| 28 | artwork on a film , changing it as required , rather than scratching away on a piece of copper clad board ! |
| 29 | There 's nothing worse than setting off on a day 's walking after a cold sleepless night when you feel as though you 've been trussed up in a straight jacket . |
| 30 | It works with standard audio input devices like microphones , disks and cassette tapes , and plays back on a variety of devices . |