Example sentences of "on [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Nearly all the pupils interviewed used counting on or a mixture of subtraction and counting on methods .
2 Always try to make it look as if someone is in the house — leave a light on or a radio playing .
3 Further details on their tour are available from Riverside on or the Arena on .
4 Erm yea , i I 'll come back on that a couple of points , erm regarding Mr Donson erm and the Southern Ryedale and York greenbelt local plan inquiry .
5 What were they on that the rest of the nation was n't ?
6 To compensate , she took a secretarial course : ‘ So that meant I had something to fall back on if the athletics failed . ’
7 However , this increase in speed must not be relied on if the launch is too slow and the pilot wants more speed , because the cause of a slow launch may be the beginning of a power failure , in which case steepening up in the hope of creating more speed would be dangerous .
8 She had a long , loose dark brown skirt on and a cotton shirt and waistcoat .
9 Just instinct , because I had my painting clothes on and a bit of water would n't have done any harm .
10 The journey ended , six days on and a world of difference at Chepstow Bridge , just below the walls of the castle .
11 At high Reynolds numbers ( based on and a length scale defined in a way indicated in Section 19.4 ) the cascade is long ; i.e. there is a large difference in the eddy sizes at its ends .
12 She 's got this cute little duffle coat on and a bobble hat with her hair sticking out the bottom .
13 Lucy had her serious office-work glasses on and a sheaf of papers .
14 There 's a meeting on and the chairman has asked me to get you up here to the boardroom . ’
15 They never made love with the light on and the act itself was too brief and impersonal to give her any pleasure .
16 She sat in her front room with the curtains drawn and the TV on and the door ajar .
17 Teesside Crown Court heard how she had later gone home by bus to discover all the lights on and the door open at her home in Eddison Way , Hemlington .
18 For once in her life she left the loft with the lights on and the hatch open .
19 It you were filling the bath with both taps on and the plug out , how many minutes would it be before the bath overflowed ?
20 A hundred years on and the scene at Balcombe is much the same ; trains faster and far more frequent are still thundering through the tunnel but without the cheering villagers to wave them on their way .
21 The man who got out of it left the headlights full on and the engine running .
22 He had the car heater on and the whirring as it blew out hot air was beginning to annoy him .
23 Whilst all of the guest rooms are furnished to the highest levels — model rooms were built for every member of staff to comment on and the opening was delayed by several months until things were felt to be completely right — the Amstel 's jewel in the crown is its Royal Suite .
24 It was just sitting there with its headlights on and the battery was running down .
25 First , by considering whether the facts the taxpayer relied on and the inspector knew about were inconsistent with the inspector 's having the requisite reasonable opinion , the Special Commissioner had misdirected himself in law .
26 However , six months on and the class is flourishing and fun .
27 On the 17th the bunkers are on the left , so Seve missed the fairway to the right and hacks over all the trouble up the right , pitches on and the crowd are all shouting ‘ get in ’ .
28 The congregation were like different parts of a huge engine , each one passing a movement on and the recipient taking it up and changing it .
29 It has n't been picked up on Unless the computer says there 's a suff It may be
30 Power is supplied from a plug-in transformer , a single red LED shows that the power in on but no power switch is fitted .
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