Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane Pargeter said , nodding towards her open drinks cabinet , even before Blanche and Dexter had time to sit down on the black leather armchairs in her sitting-room . |
| 2 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 3 | I should need to go in on the eleventh to clear up I expect . |
| 4 | If you would like to help in any way , or would like to go along on the next trip in September , contact Keith Taylor on 1252 29806 . |
| 5 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 6 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 7 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 8 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 9 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 10 | Watford is erm when you used to come out on the old |
| 11 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 12 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 13 | As for cutting it away , it was obvious that to wander about on the other side of the rampart was to invite certain death . |
| 14 | The broader track from the Horse Fair was better for riding ; he would not have to pass by on the narrow path where he had stumbled over Aldhelm 's body . |
| 15 | And this is a ph , like a photocopy , so what you 'll have is a nice printed version with Abbey Life blue , purely for you to get a feel of if you like , , and in this , we 're very quickly going to go through on the first sheet it will have activity and production and it will have your data there . |
| 16 | The government 's response to mounting criticism was to crack down on the principal advocates of reform . |
| 17 | They would expect to learn of the success of the Tay landings , and to set off on the seven miles that would take them to the central strongholds of Alba , already besieged by their fellows . |
| 18 | This Spotlight reports on a survey of 94 adults ( defined as people aged 20 or over ) who fell into this category and looks at what — if anything — providers might do to pick up on the original expression of interest . |
| 19 | And , says the company , it has a joint marketing agreement with Hewlett-Packard in Germany , and in the US is working with both DEC and Motorola Computer Systems in its quest to pick up on the expanding downsizing trend . |
| 20 | I happened to look in on the Private Office before going home in order to see whether there was anything I ought to take account of . |
| 21 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 22 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |
| 23 | I want nothing more than to walk along on the darkened plain , the moon as strong as winter sunlight in London , speaking Maa with this man . |
| 24 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 25 | Final addition is a button that electro-pneumatically locks the rear differential to help out on the serious off-road stuff . |
| 26 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 27 | The rest of the 50 minutes should be used to look back on the previous lectures and notes on the same topic . |
| 28 | It became clear from their phrases that this was a boating group come to sail about on the nearby natural lake . |
| 29 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 30 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |