Example sentences of "[pers pn] [to-vb] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that my slimmers felt so much healthier encouraged them to continue on the diet while they were losing weight and it became clear that they had no intention of falling back in to their old habits . |
| 2 | But some , such as the Portuguese man-of-war ( Physalia ) and the velella , have sacs full of gas , which enable them to float on the surface , trailing their poisonous tentacles to catch fish that come to browse in the surface water . |
| 3 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
| 4 | He took their cloaks and told them to sit on a bench which he pushed towards the heat of the fire . |
| 5 | He did not bother to look up when Corbett and Ranulf were ushered in but made a gesture for them to sit on the bench alongside the table while he continued noisily with his meal . |
| 6 | ‘ They want me to go on a course , the company runs it , so 's I can demonstrate the new machine . |
| 7 | When did you ever know me to go on a diet ? |
| 8 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 9 | They 're telling me to go on the stage and act , but I ca n't do it , it 's the one thing Mum and Dad are dead set against . ’ |
| 10 | It 's why Uncle Vernon wanted me to go on the stage . ’ |
| 11 | The idea was for me to go on the high-wire sixty feet above ground — on the shoulders of a Czechoslovakian circus performer . |
| 12 | Filled with a need , a hunger that was as much spiritual as bodily , she wanted them to meet on every level , be one in every sense of the word . |
| 13 | Billeting allocation was frequently chaotic : host families could be hostile ; children might be selected according to their good looks and manners ; in rural areas , farmers often gleefully snapped up the strongest boys and set them to work on the land . |
| 14 | Permit me to rap on the table and murmur ‘ Pass ! ’ |
| 15 | Oswiu seems to have taken them by surprise and brought them to bay on the banks of the River Winwaed , now swollen by autumnal rains , and probably to be identified with the River Went , a tributary of the Don . |
| 16 | Community-based nurses have understandably been feeling nervous and unsettled at the prospect of an uncharted future , and late last year , in order to allay these feelings , the UKCC distributed a consultation document to all members of the profession , inviting them to comment on the proposals . |
| 17 | This will take place in five stages : — orientation interviews , to select the texts and to establish the communicative context ; — initial analysis of texts which will focus on linguistic features likely to indicate relations between disciplines ; — directed interviews with the participants which will allow them to comment on the details of the analysis ; — comparison of texts from different locations and situations to show if a pattern of features is merely peculiar to one writer or if it may have general social significance . |
| 18 | In addition , work which has been prepared on a word-processor and presented to teachers or assessors encourages them to concentrate on the content without being prejudiced by the presentation . |
| 19 | A creative use for a pair of extension microphones used for recording location sound in stereo is to position one of them to concentrate on the foreground sound , leaving the pick-up of more general background sound to the other microphone . |
| 20 | Th they told me to default on the mortgage that I 'm paying for the property that my wife lives in , because the assessment does n't take into account that I |
| 21 | The band formed a friendship with NME journalist Neil Taylor , and he asked them to appear on a label he was starting called City Slang . |
| 22 | Officials did n't even want them to appear on the track as they stage-managed another two-hour show for the audience at home . |
| 23 | He was thus naturally concerned when , in 1696 , sitting in a London tavern , he was informed that a ship , the ‘ Constant ’ , was the second of his to founder on the Eddystone Rocks off Plymouth Sound . |
| 24 | The German gunners reply crashing in a couple of minutes later caused pat and I to get on the floor fast . |
| 25 | Reading the article in this issue on Remembrance led me to reflect on the statement in our Royal Charter which says that one of the objects of the Association is to : |
| 26 | he encouraged me to embark on a book , intended to be published in a new series he was editing with Longman Group Ltd. ( then Longmans Green ) . |
| 27 | No , no , no , no you could only do that , I want you to go on the Orient Express , yes . |
| 28 | ‘ I want you to sit on the step and watch out fer yer Mum and come in and tell me when you see her . ’ |
| 29 | Quality standards also require you to report on the progress of the case but this is not likely to be standard advice . |
| 30 | I want you to concentrate on the way the rooms themselves bring about certain kinds of behaviour . |