Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some pages had apparently been torn out and separately burnt ; the brittle fragments of black ash had floated down to lie on top of the debris under the grate , old twisted matchends , coal dust , carpet fluff , the accumulated grit of years . |
| 2 | It consists of a boat-like main hull and two outrigger pontoons , or sideswimmers , which are lifted hydraulically to rest on top for road travel and which are extended and lowered to the sides for stability on the water . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'll take a quick break for some tea and then we should be ready to run it up in another hour , ’ he briefs Captain Tuck-Brown , who has come across to check on progress before going home for the day . |
| 4 | Work left on unattended open display needs to be visited regularly to check on wear and tear or even sabotage by children loyal to another school ! |
| 5 | Like Jean Rhys 's fictional Englishmen , these real ones were taught early to rely on reason and suppress their feelings , and this opposition made the struggle of their lives . |
| 6 | He was told not to smoke on set because it spoiled the image : he smoked . |
| 7 | The Profitboss is lit enough to thrive on stress , to take the never-ending pressures , to work exceptionally long hours when necessary . |
| 8 | knitted directly to cast on edge or directly to last row of knitting |
| 9 | A campaign group that 's been set up to lobby on behalf of the thousands of people who are thought to have lost their pensions says there 's lttle hope of Alan 's ever being refunded … |
| 10 | Each will be revised regularly to check on progress , and raise standards higher . |
| 11 | The biggest difference in contrast on my equalization argument is between the City and between the Vale , and so whilst again it might be controversial , there is a logic , with our backs to the wall admittedly , of saying right well we 'll close this home in order to protect money that we 've got lined up to come on stream next year . |
| 12 | Somehow the words ‘ dietary fibre ’ do tend to conjure up an image of being put out to graze on food that has all the comfort and flavour of that consumed by a sheep or a cow . |
| 13 | Women were therefore forced either to go on strike or to occupy factories in order to gain the right to a collective contract and recognition of their union . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal side-stepped having to decide that issue , by holding that the buyer was entitled anyway to rely on section 14(3) ( paragraph 7–19 below ) ; the car was not reasonably fit for the particular purposes ( driving upon the roads in England — in English weather ) for which the buyer had informed the seller that he wanted it . |
| 15 | You should , you , you 're advised not to jog on tarmac because the surface is hard and jars and so if you do a lot of it can you see and if , particularly if your joints are not equal to it , then you set up a lot of trouble . |