Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While directors like Ken Russell and Nic Roeg carried on along their own idiosyncratic paths , and many of the directors who had flourished in the 1960s packed their bags for the trip to LA , there were no indications that those left behind had begun to face up to the economic realities of British film production , or what would have to be done to patch up the damage done to the craft of filmmaking , more particularly screenwriting , during the dead times of the 1950s and into the 1960s . |
| 2 | The shapely brunette , whose job was to help Davies kick his heroin and cocaine addiction and keep him on the straight and narrow , was turned on by their wild romps . |
| 3 | On average the infants in both groups were operated on on their second day in hospital . |
| 4 | You see , traditionally the eldest son of the family gives it to his bride-to-be , then eventually it 's handed on to their eldest son . |
| 5 | Unless Blakelock had the early-morning job of checking on Lab security — and this was yet another of the questions to be asked — he and Brenda Pridmore would probably have got on with their normal work at the reception desk . |
| 6 | But spurred on by their determined commander , whose reaction was ‘ My flanks are turned ; my centre gives way ; I attack ! ’ , the hardpressed French rallied and held . |
| 7 | Most of the puppets looked rough-hewn and primitive , but two were utterly grotesque , as plastic dolls heads , complete with eyelashes and floppy yellow curls , had been fixed on to their stick-like bodies . |