Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv prt] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 2 | Some were veterans of News on Sunday 's many faction fights but now , for once , they stopped ganging up on each other and ganged up on Sutton . |
| 3 | She tried to get up on all fours , and bumped her head on the underside of the bed . |
| 4 | I was uncomfortable talking about the poems and Rory 's papers ; the bag lost on the train coming back from Lochgair at the start of the year had stayed lost , and — stuck with just the memory of the half-finished stuff that Janice had given me originally — I 'd given up on any idea I 'd ever had of trying to rescue Uncle Rory 's name from artistic oblivion , or discovering some great revelation in the texts . |
| 5 | I seemed to miss out on all the fun in those days , my spells afloat were few and far between , while ashore at Felixstowe I was very busy as trade in that port was building up rapidly . |
| 6 | He imagined opening up on these feeble wretches . |
| 7 | He 'd missed out on all that because of the war , and he never tired of dropping references to ‘ noughth week ’ and ‘ encaenia ’ and ‘ schools ’ and May Balls . |
| 8 | Betty Friedan , who was to give the whole phenomenon of fulfilment-through-motherhood a name — The Feminine Mystique — also made a revealing admission when she came to look back on those unliberated years in a later book ( It Changed My Life ) : |
| 9 | Her left hand was curled down under the hem of her skirt , which she 'd pulled up on that side . |
| 10 | I definitely could n't afford that , so I took it back to the Oxford Used Car Centre and erm what happened , the mechanical breakdown service — now this is where I thought they were very good — they reimbursed me all the money that I 'd paid out on those repairs plus they did the repairs and put me a new gearbox in and the car 's running perfectly . |
| 11 | But later , from the end of the Triassic onwards , certain species within the genus began to drop down on all fours , although this does not mean that the quadrupedal forms descended from bipedal forms — or merely got tired of walking on two legs . |
| 12 | After only four months at home , Leopold decided to set out on another , longer tour , this time to Paris and London . |
| 13 | maybe Wilko called to check up on another player , or he was returning Souness ' enquiry about Rocky ( saying no ) . |
| 14 | Patrick escaped from the party on the excuse that he needed to check up on some security arrangements . |
| 15 | They kept peering about on all sides as though they knew that he was not far off but they seemed reluctant to leave the path . |
| 16 | Curious thing — she who held on to so many grievances , never spoke twice about the money she kept pouring out on all of us . |
| 17 | Pity about Agnes Algar could have gone a long way in the Service but went charging off on some unauthorised stunt in America typically female in the end trying to save the career of some soldier who 'd got himself … |
| 18 | He said he liked to stroll about on such evenings , and was scarcely aware of the place he had reached in his walk . |
| 19 | Daniel told me he liked to stroll about on such evenings , discovering these momentary beauties which accidents of light or shade or unsuspected angles of perspective brought back untarnished from former days . |
| 20 | And once in a while Elvis did dash off on some divine business or other . |
| 21 | This undermined any pre-ordained police logic we might have employed to define them , so that pressures to produce a unidimensional model of ‘ polis — prig ’ were simply unable to be maintained , although we did home in on such facets as their long hair and frequently unwashed state to polarize them as binary ‘ animals ’ , in contrast to our human status . |
| 22 | It 's attractive , and it 's better , but Borland did miss out on some obvious improvements . |
| 23 | I had to fall back on that many time . |
| 24 | Back in Manchester a glossy fanzine called Muze had picked up on this story and published a naively frivolous article which dared to question the somewhat confused ethical position of the band . |
| 25 | Long afterwards , when it was over , when he could finally bear to think of it all , he understood that , deep down , Laura had not expected to live beyond thirty and that , without realizing it , he had picked up on this and joined in the relentless , exhausting determination to sample life to the fullest . |
| 26 | Somewhere , affection had crept in on both sides . |
| 27 | And if he had to set out on this nonsensical journey to the Fire Court with the Humans , it would be as well to just stock up a bit for his return . |
| 28 | I would like to have discovered what had become of Mr Graham , for although we had not known each other well , I would say we had got on on those occasions we had met . |
| 29 | It was possibly the first time the BBC had had to take other equipment out of service because someone ( Voigt ) complained of its bad performance , which had shown up on this speaker . |
| 30 | The smell excited her like a pheromone , even now , three years after she had walked out on all that madness . |