Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 2 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 3 | Of those that did turn up at their parish churches , a good number behaved in a manner that was anything but reverential : talking , joking , spitting , arguing , and catching up on lost sleep . |
| 4 | Am I right in saying Women 's Institute , do n't they go round and checking up on sorry erm footpaths ? |
| 5 | Press the rice into the tin , cover it with foil and press down on all sides until it is compressed . |
| 6 | By keeping double taxation to a minimum and cracking down on phoney transfer pricing , these international arrangements have helped boost the efficient allocation of capital worldwide . |
| 7 | Chrysler has already suspended production at one of its main assembly plants and cut back on managerial staff . |
| 8 | Stop smoking and cut down on sugary snacks . |
| 9 | They are tailing unmarked police cars to stake outs and listening in on secret frequencies . |
| 10 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 11 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 12 | The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Almost all aspects of life suffered under martial law which was used by consecutive governments to ban large public meetings and to crack down on any political groups and political parties working underground . |
| 15 | Listen to the Ink Spots , watch Paris , Texas for the eighth or ninth time , shut the doors and lie back on those same damp pillows . |
| 16 | They played gallantly , leading right up to the final game , and going down on 836 . |
| 17 | From the bridge there is a rack curving right ; deep flow starts on the right and ends up on left then there is steady flow curving round a long left bend for ½ mile to S bend left , right , left , all grade I/II rock gardens with plenty of water and routes . |
| 18 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 19 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 20 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 21 | And hurrying along on this account that we have here , Ruth , the next morning , she 's given a gift by Boaz a a a , a gift of er , to seal what has been said . |
| 22 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 23 | The world number two saw a splash after topping his drive on La Moraleja 's 414-yard fifth hole , but the ball had only skimmed the surface and finished back on dry land . |
| 24 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 25 | At the same time the government is rushing ahead with non-economic reforms which it knows will be popular , such as tightening up the conditions for acquiring French citizenship and clamping down on illegal immigration . |
| 26 | It took me five minutes to put up the inner , which is erected first and another five minutes to fit the flysheet and peg out on one wild and windy night . |
| 27 | we 're going on the Friday morning and coming back on this |
| 28 | In addition carers often reported further expenditure related to disability and caring which had resulted in using savings and cutting down on normal expenditure . |
| 29 | This means concentrating on fish , poultry and vegetarian dishes and cutting down on red meat ; avoiding creamy , cheesy or buttery sauces and fried foods ; and eliminating salads with fattening ingredients such as bacon , nuts , cheese and egg . |
| 30 | Additional proposals include setting up an emergency fund to save buildings or sites for the nation and another for historic gardens ( two proposals which have met with approval ) , and cutting back on conservation grants , principally repair grants made to local authorities , amounting to £9.5 million annually , half of which has been on a pound-for-pound basis . |