Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd hired a smart car for their visit ; he joked with Mary Rose about driving on the right side of the road . |
| 2 | He concentrated on staying on the front foot , took few risks and made 35 from 45 deliveries with seven fours , then played Morrison on . |
| 3 | Martha delighted in turning on the taps in the bathroom and watching water pour out at her command , and when that attraction palled she took to rushing into the kitchen to watch the maid turn on the fire . |
| 4 | Part of the fun for them came from commenting on the other dancers and inventing private nicknames for them , such as Big Feet , Sir Galahad , Merrylegs , Dreamboat , and many others . |
| 5 | When it came to sleeping on the horrid , plastic bed in the sultry room we had the choice of suffocating in the heat or enduring the groaning clatter of an electric fan , which sounded like the soukoyant flapping her leathery wings , rattling at the unopenable shutters and trying to get in . |
| 6 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 7 | A game of chance played by betting on the order appearance of certain cards . |
| 8 | In a separate section of the statement , France joined in calling on the Libyan government to " prove by concrete actions its renunciation of terrorism " . |
| 9 | In that same year he returned from studying on the Continent and began to exhibit work in the Royal Academy and with the New English and the London Group . |
| 10 | Perhaps he should have watched Robert Bresson 's A Man Escaped before embarking on the picture . |
| 11 | He began by commenting on the dramatic progress that has been made in the understanding of both tropospheric and stratospheric chemical processes during the past 20 years . |
| 12 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
| 13 | Three and a half years ago I described my experience of a meeting I attended for briefing on the brave new world of budget holding , the wild card of the recently published NHS Review . |
| 14 | POLICE yesterday named a rambler who collapsed and died after walking on the North York Moors . |
| 15 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 16 | Quite apart from the work which went into recording on the main islands of the Outer Hebrides , a great deal of effort also went into visiting the less accessible islands and outliers . |
| 17 | Still trying to make reality match with her fantasy , she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons . |
| 18 | The Indians in America soon took to travelling on the trains . |
| 19 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 20 | And yet again , Charles insisted on flying on the same plane as his sons William and Harry . |
| 21 | Charles remembered from working on The Strutters with him that George had always had an approximate approach to the text , relying , as did so many television actors , on a sort of paraphrase of the speeches which homed in on the right cue . |
| 22 | Shaw produced images described as a woman 's navel , a breast , a thigh , and Jesus , on an 8 mm movie film , This he did by spitting on the lens . |
| 23 | What was it the copper said about going on the Wogan show ? |
| 24 | However , he concluded by insisting on the upholding of rights for Hungarian national minorities . |