Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] [verb] on the " in BNC.

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1 On each occasion the fish ends up lying on the tank floor breathing heavily until it dies .
2 The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore .
3 How much memory it takes up depends on the applications being run , comments IBM .
4 But when the proof comes it also turns out to rest on the assumption that it is already true .
5 He goes round banging on the barrels . )
6 There is also a health visitor who comes in to teach on the childcare course and to discuss any health problems , and a doctor who visits monthly to give inoculations and deal with any other aspects of health care .
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