Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The seagulls have long since given up on this ferry . |
| 2 | ‘ Though will you be all right driving back on your own ? ’ she fretted . |
| 3 | Official energy pronouncements , whatever their other shortcomings , have hitherto always fallen back on ‘ national security ’ as their ultimate justification . |
| 4 | He had never made any bones about it , and , to be honest , he was much more use out on the slopes , chatting people up , showing off the exclusive styles they sold and being a general advertisement for the place . |
| 5 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |
| 6 | He came so often to check up on Faye that his presence was hardly cause for special comment , let alone celebration . |
| 7 | It 's a challenge all the more remarkable for the fact that not so long ago jetting off on holiday made her weak at the knees … |
| 8 | But it struck me then how very wise he was to keep his sexy side so firmly battened down on duty . |
| 9 | Although public awareness of the Third Reich is probably greater in Germany than in the US , the organisers were right not to cut down on the documentary material . |
| 10 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 11 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
| 12 | For general purpose pads 2.4mm o/d are quite adequate and again special shapes are available for integrated circuit pin-outs which are already conveniently laid out on the correct 0.1″ pitch . |
| 13 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 14 | The Justices of the Forest were once more sent out on eyre to hear pleas of the Forest , , and to re-establish the Forest system in any districts which had been lost . |
| 15 | It must have been with some degree of cautiousness and a heightened sense of responsibility that Gould once more stocked up on shot , caps , and powder on his way back through Launceston for the journey home . |
| 16 | After a lapse of more than a century , the Forest justices were once again sent out on eyre in the southern forests , armed with articles of inquiry for local juries to answer . |
| 17 | When considering why the DLV underwent this very swift and conspicuously awkward change of heart , we are once again thrown back on the resources of the imagination . |
| 18 | Named after Argentinian Independence Day , the group have attracted most attention for their confrontational political stance , most pertinently summed up on their recent mail order-only single and the LP 's strongest track , ‘ Fuck The Right To Vote ’ . |
| 19 | Town 's top scorer , Paul Bradbury was also not missing out on the action and came close on three or four occasions , but Simmons was playing excellently to deny him . |
| 20 | The story also repeatedly reflects back on the nature of temptation and of the Ring . |
| 21 | Erm it 's really just coming back on the issue of concealed household earlier . |
| 22 | ‘ Believe me , my young friend , there is nothing — absolutely nothing — half so much worth doing as simply messing about on floats . ’ |
| 23 | Now please sit down on a chair , sit on that chair , please sit down . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , it 's a funny old thing , actually I must tell you I feel an awful lot better since I 've passed my I suppose , last Friday I saw a Solicitor and the divorce is now actually sat up on it 's merry way rejoicing , and |
| 25 | ‘ I was about ter give up on yer . |
| 26 | Its not so bad now either way , it was years ago always look down on people like that but not so much now |
| 27 | The figures were released as Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor , warned that interest rates could climb even further to clamp down on rising prices . |
| 28 | Gordon Grant , for example , suggests that CMHTs play a crucial role in assisting the development of voluntary sector services , although he is cautious about the ability of teams to unlock " an unlimited capacity for care amongst voluntary groups or family carers The developmental function here clearly picks up on the prominence given to the involvement of voluntary groups and parents in the service planning process in Wales , where Grant and his colleagues are monitoring aspects of the All-Wales Strategy . |
| 29 | As the best PR people try to understand their audience before they try to sell something , we must assume that Mr Heseltine is even now reading up on anti-nuclear propaganda . |
| 30 | In the past few years Broderick has been faced with a similar , if less epic problem : simply how to grow up on screen , how to graduate from the early ‘ smart kid ’ roles in War Games and Ferris Bueller 's Day Off which have so far intended to resort to a tour of duty in a Vietnam movie or wearing a false moustache in a cop drama to prove their ‘ maturity ’ as actors . |