Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Ah was out where the poppy grows so Ah started on hashish and stuff like that . |
| 2 | And so we sailed on south for some days . |
| 3 | Erm we also know that base five formwork is up so we started on base five as soon as we can , put as many resources into it as we can we mentioned earlier that er having five hundred people in there made life quite congested but we decided the more people that helped in there the better and er our objective was to get the er wall steelwork up . |
| 4 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 5 | Perhaps he lives on newsprint , like a little hamster . |
| 6 | So it went on day after day , night after night ; we were out for a month . |
| 7 | The publicity the film attracted in Cannes followed Nicholson back to America where it was due for New York opening in July which , as Karen Black told me later , was an odd time : ‘ It was a college film and so it goes on release at exactly the same time as the colleges are closing down for the summer and everyone is going home . ’ |
| 8 | So it arrived on time … |
| 9 | Then while I was away she went on holiday straight after . |
| 10 | Line up the shot in the viewfinder as before , press the camera button again and away you go on shot two , still keeping the camcorder as steady as you can . |
| 11 | Gradually I put on body weight , a lot of it muscle bulk , and took to daily weight training . |
| 12 | Blonde Michelle says : ‘ My boyfriend Fisher Stevens will have to drag me kicking and screaming out of the house , but once I get on holiday I 'm sure I 'll enjoy it . |
| 13 | That 's your ace in the hole ; the more you concentrate on note choice , the more quality you 're gon na get . |
| 14 | In general as the Royal Commission on the Distribution of Income and Wealth noted in 1980 , ‘ the more you earn the more you get on top of pay ’ . |
| 15 | The more you have on top , the more it lifts you ; the more you have on the bottom , the more you 're pulled down . |
| 16 | As he explains to us his brilliant plot to tell Othello that Desdemona wants Cassio recalled only to satisfy ‘ her body 's lust ’ , we see that the more she strives on behalf of Cassio the more she will damage herself . |
| 17 | Later she worked on merchandising and public relations for Estée Lauder in England for ten years . |
| 18 | Five minutes later he flopped on top of me . |
| 19 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 20 | Just over three weeks later he won on Physicist at Fontwell Park . |
| 21 | Now I Goggles on time folks . |
| 22 | ‘ Now we concentrate on research and exporting technology . |
| 23 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 24 | Now it says on average for , and then essentially we looked at the three main support of erm protectionist powers , like the E E C , U S A and Japan right , and they said that on average alright for every one dollar benefit alright for every one dollar benefit , one agricultural support , right it actually costs right one one fifty dollars of the general statistics in order to give a pounds worth of support to domestic farmers , we er have to find one pounds fifty right . |
| 25 | But that was 20 years ago , now he concentrates on executive recruitment . |
| 26 | keeps a cushion of air under the vessel so that really it hovers on top of the water and the air propellers drive it like an aeroplane |
| 27 | Well I started on farm work . |
| 28 | Some years ago I saw on TV a most splendid series by a marvellous writer called Brian Clark . |
| 29 | Ages ago I saw on television someone using a special space with a lever action behind it , to help people with bad backs to be able to dig the garden . |
| 30 | Well she created on Christmas |