Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as much to disprove some of their absurd assumptions as to help you prove your own theories that I agreed to come in on this project . |
| 2 | It is no longer to come down on one side or other of the fence as the entire poem was so clearly designed to do , but to say following the ways of God will mean this . |
| 3 | Why he decided to come down on one player 's side against another is beyond comprehension . |
| 4 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 5 | Until I find out more I do not want to come down on either side . ’ |
| 6 | Not wishing to come down on either side , the planners say it 's a nice fence but high fences near roads need permission . |
| 7 | They were altogether sharper and funnier , liable to dash off on little fantasy runs . |
| 8 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 9 | The issue reminded many observers of the Recruit share trading scandal of late 1988 , which had led to the collapse of the government led by Noboru Takeshita [ see pp. 36463-64 ] , and which had led to a range of measures designed to tighten up on this kind of abuse . |
| 10 | The next two days had settled into a daily routine of cleaning weapons and trying to catch up on lost sleep as every night was disturbed by the constant shelling . |
| 11 | Its cause is uncertain — it is also found even if we do not eat then — but it means that it is often possible to catch up on lost sleep by taking a nap at this time . |
| 12 | They would then find that they were hanging around for hours and the crafty ones would try to find a prop bed to catch up on some sleep . |
| 13 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 14 | Anyway , I really do need to catch up on some paperwork , so you 'd be doing me a favour . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'll have got my bearings by tomorrow , so you wo n't need to stand in for me , ’ she said , ‘ but tonight , I do n't mind admitting , I 'll be glad to catch up on some beauty sleep . |
| 16 | Anyway it was not always easy for Nellie to get up to Rosstrevor as often as she 'd like to catch up on any news . |
| 17 | This is a time to catch up on urgent paperwork and swap stories with colleagues about the events of the day . |
| 18 | He said , ‘ we are just at the end of the recession and we are about to come out on some sort of curve ’ . |
| 19 | Well the first thing is to make sure that the magistrates and the police use their licencing powers to crack down on illegal drinking , that is to say under age drinking , and to crack down on unruly pubs and the hours that discos are open and that 's beginning to happen . |
| 20 | He says the force has started to crack down on rural violence and he blamed much of the trouble on young people drinking too much . |
| 21 | The USGA have made clear their intention to crack down on slow play at Baltusrol and Langer believes he is not one of the worst offenders . |
| 22 | The police are only now beginning to crack down on this type of smuggling . |
| 23 | The Department of Transport , the advertising industry and the police have combined to crack down on this menace which is still responsible for so much carnage and misery . |
| 24 | Since the substances used are often freely on sale for legitimate purposes , it is hard to crack down on this form of abuse . |
| 25 | The more advanced desktop publishing packages have begun to pick up on this requirement but few can manage either the length or the revision information that the typical TechDoc user needs . |
| 26 | Chairman I would like to pick up on this point about the identification of sites . |
| 27 | to open up on any wall an eye , |
| 28 | Also issued on Oct. 26 , a decree granted foreign investors ( individual or corporate ) the right to set up on Soviet soil a 100 per cent foreign-owned enterprise , or to buy a shareholding in existing Soviet enterprises . |
| 29 | I think it will a long way , but you 're quite to draw it to us , and to ask us to set out on that road . |
| 30 | Her cheeks were pink with excitement , her eyes shiny and bright , as though she was getting ready to go off on some adventure . |