Example sentences of "we [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are we down on the batteries ? |
| 2 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 3 | The man forgot one issue , the European Monetary Union , it was Mr Major that took us into the Economic Monetary Union at the wrong way , he took us in on a political decision on the last day of a Labour Party Conference in Blackpool and he 's forgotten that . |
| 4 | To my mind , the excellent Ms Phillips would be able to give a much funnier performance if she were allowed to let us in on the truth from the outset . |
| 5 | So I trooped down there and muscled us in on the Bazooka Joe gig . |
| 6 | In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life . |
| 7 | In the evening we had a very enjoyable meal at the Captain 's table and Captain Lemaire filled us in on the delights of Martinque , our next port of call . |
| 8 | TV chef Raymond Blanc lets us in on the secrets of his kitchen |
| 9 | Cos when the well as soon as you could walk in the summer er you know when weather permitting my mam 'd take us down on the beach there and , Here you are , sink or swim in you 'd go into the water . |
| 10 | Well Jake was saying that he actually why you 're owed the forty five quid is he put us down on the wrong one with your . |
| 11 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 12 | Never as in a time like the present — of radical social change in Italy as in other European countries , of the transition from an industrial to a service economy ( Italy 's second major economic revolution in 30 years ) , of the questioning of many social values , above all in the matter of social relations ( between the sexes , between friends , between producer and consumer ) , of profound uncertainty about the future , commingled with fear , anxiety and even expectation — never has the impotence of literature been so apparent , its inability to say the word which , in Montale 's phrase , ‘ squares us off on every side ’ ( Montale 1977 : 47 ) . |
| 13 | With Vargas tipping us off on every move he makes we ca n't go wrong . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Deliberately falsified information … to send us off on a wasteful course of negative research . |
| 15 | ‘ You can drop us off on the corner if you like , Bill . ’ |
| 16 | She can start us off on the aerobics lesson . |
| 17 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 18 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |
| 19 | Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches . |
| 20 | We stayed on board and we went up on to every deck and there was even a gentleman , he showed us up on the bridge on that er on that and , and of course there was the little shop and I bought I thought I must buy something on the Queen Elizabeth and I bought a pen . |
| 21 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 22 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 23 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 24 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 25 | When Silver et al talked of ‘ securing the long term future of Leeds ’ I envisaged that as meaning we have to bite the bullet a little now , but once the ground has been finished — the revenue from the Euro champs will get us back on an even keel ( maybe into the black ) . |
| 26 | Even promising young athletes do n't bring us out on a winter 's day ; we do have little tours of inspection , occasionally . ’ |
| 27 | But this wo n't get us out on the tide . ’ |
| 28 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |