Example sentences of "to [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She pocketed the Beretta , her hands still trembling as she thought of how close she had come to firing on the turn . |
| 2 | Although Iceland had changed some years before to driving on the right , the bus which was well past its sell-by date — was right-hand drive ; the first bit of England I had seen for three weeks . |
| 3 | This in general would seem to involve two elements : a process of communication , discussion , and exchange of information with the aim of reaching an agreement ; and , where there are gains to reneging on the agreement given that the others comply , some kind of mechanism for punishing such violations and so enforcing the agreement . |
| 4 | For example , if technology is such that production is subject to a fixed maximum rate of capacity output , and for each firm its output under the collusive agreement is just about at capacity , then there would be virtually no short-run gain to reneging on the agreement . |
| 5 | In the outdoor environment , the dog will be used to walking on the leash with you . |
| 6 | Your puppy must be used to walking on the lead before you start any proper heel work training . |
| 7 | It is equivalent to landing on the hedge because you did not close the airbrake , even though you knew that you were likely to hit it . |
| 8 | How what kind of a Prior to living on the flats , erm what kind of accommodation have you lived in ? |
| 9 | According to Southwood , phytophagy arose from both saprophagy , the consumption of decaying or at least dying plants , and from feeding on fallen propagules including spores and pollen grains , which led to living on the strobili themselves , a route followed by the extinct insect orders , Dictyoneurida and Diaphanopterida . |
| 10 | She is moving to the north in January and although sorry to be leaving Kent , is looking forward , with her husband , to living on the outskirts of Sheffield overlooking the Derbyshire dales . |
| 11 | She is a voluntary visitor for the West Sussex Association for the Disabled and sits on two village committees and looks forward to serving on the Executive Committee of the Medau Society . |
| 12 | These conditions have fostered a ‘ pick-and-choose ’ or ‘ supermarket ’ approach to sentencing on the part of the courts which neither Parliament nor the Appeal Courts have until recently sought to discourage , though the Criminal Justice Act 1991 ( see below , page 107 ) appears to herald at least a partial break with that tradition . |
| 13 | Only an idealized observer could see both the inner processing and the causal relations of the symbols to outside objects that give them meaning : no one could actually be that idealized observer , because each observer is confined to operating on the symbols that are within his computational machinery , and this excludes their external causal relations . |
| 14 | These were partly protected by the nest structure ( from an old jackdaws nest ) and partly exposed to trampling on the floor of the cave . |
| 15 | I was due to learn the trade from start to finish with the with the idea of getting myself up to getting on the road . |
| 16 | Well they , I had to go to Road police station , London , it was quite good , the detective took , took me around that little area and er then when I got ready to collect to take him to Liverpool Street Station , I saw him for the first time , man about sixty one and he 'd got two suitcases , one lighter than the other , and while I was signing for him and his property I said to him , you take that light one and I 'll take the bigger one with the view to getting on the bus to get to Liverpool Street st but the inspector there was very good , he said I 'm not going to oh and I said to you take the light case I 'll take the high one , he said I ca n't carry anything , I got a rupture . |
| 17 | and I 've we 've taken the the old settee down to Carrie 's and moved the two seater and the armchair down this end and they flew in tonight straight up on the sofa , I said to it 's gon na be tough for a week or so but they 've got ta get used to staying on the floor , I 'm not having them on the furniture all the time cos they just absolutely ruin it ! |
| 18 | Potential recruits often object to joining on the grounds that they are uninterested in politics . |
| 19 | I have been able to give particular priority to spending on the health programme . |
| 20 | In relation to recording on the file it was held that time spent in preparing typed file and attendance notes should be recorded , and will be recovered , provided that the time spent is not excessive . |
| 21 | Of course , that is not something that the hon. Gentleman is used to observing on the Opposition Benches . |
| 22 | The Indians in America soon took to travelling on the trains . |
| 23 | The company is firmly opposed to discounting on the grounds that it undermines standards . |
| 24 | The pope seems to have confined himself to insisting on the prohibition of lay investiture . |
| 25 | Born in the depressed town of Flint , Michigan , 21 years ago , Me Phi Me ( who uses the symbol of the Greek letter phi to spell out his middle name ) started writing poetry at the age of six , before graduating to rapping on the streets . |
| 26 | Still trying to make reality match with her fantasy , she took to napping on the beach in the afternoons . |
| 27 | I came to sitting on the sofa still holding the broken pot in my hand . |
| 28 | Gabriel took to sitting on the cart-tail and waving to them ; it seemed so ungrateful to speed away from their flattery and blessings . |
| 29 | And these three would n't cos they 're used to sitting on the chair arm . |
| 30 | As to snitching on the donor , he excused himself to the others later , in my earshot , by saying his loyalties really were to his hosts . |