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Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Since the work is covered by Building Regulations , you will need to inform your local authority ; they may well tell you the type of trench necessary , the ways the drains have to be laid in them depending on local soil conditions and the material to be used for the drains .
2	Technological improvements allowed them to capitalize on that wealth in the 1920s .
3	‘ My boss hinted this afternoon at asking me to work on another case . ’
4	Mr Baker , who said society had become more violent and more selfish , made an indirect attack on the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , and other church leaders , calling on them to concentrate on juvenile crime instead of the European Social Chapter on workers ' rights .
5	Right , if there 's , if there 's gon na be , if there 's gon na be looking a bit iffy , if you 'll let me know on any item , and then I 'll get , I 'll , and then I 'll box .
6	This intake of information from several sources at once is a complex process , and the value to learners of silent viewing is that it lets them concentrate on one element at a time .
7	I asked on that occasion for considerably more information .
8	I lost it in 1963 on the A30 west of Salisbury when I skidded on some diesel oil and rolled over and over .
9	What did I build on this foundation ?
10	so he j , now he does make an effort in some of his books and , I mean they say write small , I mean on one page if he wrote any smaller I need a ma
11	Well they were , they were really dependent on , I mean on each other , they were a unit even though they were two families in a way
12	Later , when I consulted on another matter a British doctor who has been in Kampala some thirty years , he stated that he ‘ never advises patients to take mefloquine .
13	When I insist on that priority , as I can tell you I most certainly will — with the full support of the Prime Minister in doing so — then I 'm sure my colleagues will see the point of that .
14	I sit on that bench for quite a while — till it starts getting dark .
15	I sit on this platform fifteen minutes waiting for a train .
16	and this kind of thing it 's getting er I just think I 'm going to end up more confused by trying to do it all at once than if I concentrate on one thing at a time .
17	‘ Many people tend to specialise in a certain topic such as sport or pop music but I concentrate on general knowledge . ’
18	‘ Have I stumbled on some dark and desperate secret ? ’
19	The only wheel I found on this trip is still very much in business , grinding corn on two pairs of stones .
20	Not as good as yesterday evening when I dined on roast chicken , not very well cooked , but certainly much better than this homely fare .
21	The R/T was bad and I thought he said ‘ below you ’ so I concentrated on that section of the sky almost exclusively , leaving it to Dick to watch above us .
22	Yet if I concentrated on each footstep , I should soon be safely home .
23	‘ Right , Piper , we 'll forget the bloody left , right , left , right , routine , ’ snarls the Sergeant , ‘ When I knock on this door and you hear someone say ‘ come in' ’ , you go in , turn right , and salute .
24	Er yes , wh yes , I came on full rate then .
25	I put on one kilogram .
26	What I done on that night was no more than any other police officer does or would do in the same situation .
27	I cite as an example the urban areas of the city which I partially represent — I speak for all of Birmingham when I speak on this issue , and I am trying to raise an important matter in which there may be some common cause .
28	Can I touch on another thing , which I think , has n't been mentioned in the notes , but is very much in our minds .
29	Here is evidence , I read on one card , that the Pagan Mysteries were instituted pure .
30	And erm , the other aspect , the last aspect that gave us er anxiety was something I touched on this morning when I joined in at the end of the Selby discussion .