Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv prt] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well can the divisional quality managers be prepared to report back on this next Monday . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 3 | Good referees are quick to pick up on this and impose penalties for persistent offenders . |
| 4 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 5 | The rise of ‘ put-and-take ’ fisheries has paralleled a great explosion of interest in game fishing ; and as more and more people discover the delights of angling , tackle manufacturers have been quick to cash in on this growing demand . |
| 6 | Schoolboys are very conventional and quick to gang up on any boy who in behaviour or dress does not conform . |
| 7 | Three-quarter-inch cassette formats : U-matic Low-Band — widely used in industry and in institutions ; U-matic High-Band — acceptable for broadcast , better quality than low-band , needs to be transferred to low-band to play back on that standard but will playback on low band equipment as black and white picture of variable quality . |
| 8 | I was able to come back on that and add up the figures perfectly competently , but I can imagine that other people might not have been able to , and |
| 9 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 10 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 11 | I am now wondering what possibilities are available to pick up on these again at this stage or in the future . |
| 12 | I would like you all to try to remember the stages of the process because you 're going to have to do , as I said to you last lesson , a small write up on this in order to get your unit of accreditation for this work . |
| 13 | More surprises will come , because Wall Street has proved slow to pick up on such clues . |
| 14 | Now Michael Portillo is one of the Tory high flyers , for anyone that do n't know who he is , he 's a Tory high flyer who finds it very difficult to look down , very difficult to look down on those but he should look down before he makes a such statements . |
| 15 | For Max , it was perfectly normal , just the way one expected to start out on such a chequered route through life . |
| 16 | Without a victory for over four years and bitterly disappointed to miss out on this month 's Ryder Cup , Brand Jnr held a four-stroke lead over Swedish rookie Olle Karlsson , with struggling Welshman Phillip Price a shot further back . |
| 17 | She sat down awkwardly on one of the chairs , feeling highly incongruous in her black dress , which she had been obliged to put back on that morning , and looked down at her stiletto-clad feet . |
| 18 | Anyway , keen to cash in on this burgeoning demand , the car manufacturers are offering a range of pick-ups aimed smack at the jugular of America 's youth . |
| 19 | Now they are keen to get in on any cross-subsidisation themselves . |
| 20 | Her cheeks were pink with excitement , her eyes shiny and bright , as though she was getting ready to go off on some adventure . |
| 21 | When he let it go the ram trotted off , barging through the other sheep with the lukal bulging out on either side across its ribcage . |
| 22 | As a result , Brown reckons that the two companies are eager to cash in on such a base to generate interest in their own products . |
| 23 | Eager to cash in on this sorry state of affairs , big telecoms firms are scrambling to offer all-in-one ‘ global ’ telephone services to multinationals . |