Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am willing to stand or fall on this one , ’ he had said — but when he was proved wrong he did not fall , he rose yet higher . |
| 2 | And this is what I am going to try and do on this course . |
| 3 | ‘ I am working hard to try and build on this and so far we have about 16 corporate members . |
| 4 | Er , I 've got er , I 've almost abso three quarters promised to go and call on some friends in on the way through |
| 5 | Once again we meet to debate and vote on this highly emotive subject and it has always almost , it has already been apparent that it is very emotional . |
| 6 | Since the press was now free to publish and comment on all aspects of political life , strident debates took place in the columns of the newspapers and even , though more timidly , within the Legislative Body itself . |
| 7 | The long weekend also gave me time to myself to rest and ponder on all that had gone and was to come . |
| 8 | In most cases the court would be expected to terminate the welfare officer 's involvement as the guardian has a duty to consider and report on all the options including the making of private law orders . |
| 9 | She looked at the cold cup of coffee on the table , and left it there while she went in to shower and put on some clothes , shorts and a T-shirt and tennis shoes . |
| 10 | It is not for us to decide whether or not a book is racist or obscene or seditious ; society has laid down laws to make such judgments and has conferred upon statutory bodies the power to advise and assess on such matters — however imperfect or fickle such institutions may appear in their assessments . |
| 11 | Except to tell me to stop or to go on neither of them spoke throughout the whole hour of the journey to Amsterdam . |
| 12 | Hudson , Director of Long Ashton Research Station , University of Bristol , to examine and report on both the provision of full-time courses below that of OND and also all part-time courses in further education . |
| 13 | Equally the Rome Treaty principle of freedom to supply services suggests that airlines should be free to enter and compete on any inter-state route . |
| 14 | Coleridge was to speak and write on many occasions of the ‘ visions of childhood ’ which so filled him during his London school-days . |