Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps Mr Paxman would at last achieve what we have always been waiting for him to do in one of his interviews : either fall fast asleep or choke to death on one of his own jokes . |
| 2 | If my wife and I both go then the car is cheaper by £10 , but that is not a lot to pay for the increased safety of rail travel , the convenience of not having to take a car into London and indeed the fact that we can read or go to sleep on the train . |
| 3 | The ones who do object , and with reason , are those whose land has been trampled over without care , whose stock have got loose because gates have been left open or walls broken down , or whose sheep have cut themselves or choked to death on the bottles and plastic bags thrown away by the Wandering Wallies of this world that have as much common sense and appreciation of the countryside as a toad has feathers . |
| 4 | Each life is a game of chess that went to hell on the seventh move , and now the flukey play is cramped and slow , a dream of constraint and cross-purpose , with each move forced , all pieces pinned and skewered and zugzwanged … |
| 5 | The major changes affecting reporting accountants are the introduction of rules bringing controlled trust accounts within the scope of the accountant 's report , and changes to one of the rules that relate to interest on client money . |
| 6 | by distracting the teachers from issues of the quality of delivery to administrative , bureaucratic issues , with priority given to meetings , form-filling and planning of a kind that fails to impact on the quality of the classroom . |
| 7 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 8 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 9 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 10 | This is because speakers of these German dialects look to German as their standard language , read and write in German and listen to German on radio and television . |
| 11 | The offence took place between July 15 — the day Rachel , 23 , was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the common in front of her three-year-old son — and July 24 . |
| 12 | He mentioned the ‘ war games ’ : such as the capturing of a fire-engine ; the cutting of telephone wires ; the jape of climbing unseen into a baker 's van and reconnoitring the town as the baker innocently made his rounds ; and penetrating the docks and going to sleep on a submarine . |
| 13 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 14 | I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face . |
| 15 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 16 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |
| 17 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 18 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 19 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 20 | Minton took him upstairs to his studio , where his portrait of Nevile Wallis was in progress , and set to work on a small canvas . |
| 21 | She sat down and set to work on the files . |
| 22 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 23 | Er , those in favour of the amendment standing in the name of Councillor and submitted to Council on the twenty third of April ? |
| 24 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez was arrested on 5 April 1990 in Havana and brought to trial on 12 October on charges of making ‘ enemy propaganda ’ . |
| 25 | The Observer commented that ‘ apparently network controller Michael Green thinks books are well enough covered in programmes such as ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Nightwaves ’ , and plugged to death on Melvyn Bragg 's ‘ start the Week ’ ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I do my housework , and look after Matthew , and go to church on Sunday . |
| 27 | He tidied up , damped the fire down , undressed down to his underwear , took a cushion from the armchair to use as a pillow , used his overcoat to cover himself and went to sleep on the rug beside the hearth . |
| 28 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 29 | I put the pressure-cooker back and went to bed on the sofa . |
| 30 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |