Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've got to work it out on the basis of ten miles not on the basis of five miles . |
| 2 | Pray that they may be people who rely on God 's healing and allow him to set them back on the track of feeding the lambs . |
| 3 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 4 | He 'd managed to track her down on the Friday evening , waiting for several minutes as she was summoned to the communal phone in the hall where she was now a deputy warden . |
| 5 | He were a remarkable man in his way : he went down a well to clean it out on the day he died . |
| 6 | That is the pathway we have gone down , and in consequence we have reduced the amount of food that is given to our cows that could be eaten by man from 50 per cent to 14 per cent by getting the input from grass and porridge oats : food that would otherwise be wasted in a system that is not using these animals to pick it up on the way . |
| 7 | Do , above all , make time to talk to your son or daughter — particularly if they want to sound you out on the subject . |
| 8 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 9 | Jed 's idea of doing something special was to be allowed to help her out on the estate , almost as if he was afraid that he 'd find himself abandoned if he did n't make himself useful . |
| 10 | I wanted her to fill me in on the blank spots , and I wanted to hear it from her , not anybody else . |
| 11 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 12 | you 'll have to put them up on the ceiling |
| 13 | What I 'm planning to do is to put them back in the order , colleagues could you settle down please , I 'm planning to put them back on the agenda in the order that they fell off , and er , hopefully , the first opportunity in that connection may be Wednesday afternoon , but I need to have a discussion with colleagues about that , but I 'll certainly let you know at the first available opportunity . |
| 14 | notes you have made to fill you in on the background and performance of the company : |
| 15 | ‘ It 'll give me a chance to fill you in on the situation , ’ he 'd told her . |
| 16 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 17 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 18 | Such behaviour is essential when you are training your dog to run free outside as you will want to put it back on the leash at the end of the period of exercise . |
| 19 | So when the jacket of Elleke Bohemer 's book An Immaculate Figure ( Bloomsbury £15.99 ) claims it is ‘ a compelling and beautifully told parable about Africa , whiteness and beauty ’ the reader 's first reaction is to put it back on the shelf and move quickly on . |
| 20 | He decided to play it like a bunker shot , nothing fancy because we were three in the lead ; he only wanted to put it out on the fairway and make a par 5 . |
| 21 | It 's better to put it out on the table and hear it . |
| 22 | Her mother handed her a glass of white wine , so generously filled that Kate was obliged to take a long sip before it was safe to put it down on the small table by the side of the chair . |
| 23 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 24 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 25 | To my mind , the excellent Ms Phillips would be able to give a much funnier performance if she were allowed to let us in on the truth from the outset . |
| 26 | Depending on this year 's crop of foals , Jonadab was hoping to send him out on the road in the following spring . |
| 27 | But at the time of building I think it was just continued practice from the victorian days to run it round on the top . |
| 28 | There were no relatives to travel with her to the grave , only strangers to see her off on the darkest of journeys . |
| 29 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 30 | They preferred to sit it out on the Fosse Way . |