Example sentences of "we [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the dark hours before dawn we crept up on our objectives and laid charges . |
| 2 | From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour . |
| 3 | I was beginning to become impatient as we lay about on the sand for several hours waiting our turn to go aboard one of the tank-landing craft , after it had discharged its cargo . |
| 4 | It was much deeper and bigger than most of what we pick up on screens , our primary source of entertainment today . |
| 5 | You know , young , homeless people we pick up on this bus and er , we have , we we 've sort of ended up pursuing their cases with the housing department and getting temporary accommodation . |
| 6 | One of the few areas that we sell out on most match days , and there 's facilities for men and women and we actively develop these areas . |
| 7 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 8 | And then we got out on the course and we realized . |
| 9 | I think we got off on the right foot . ’ |
| 10 | Some even made me jump After this we got back on the coach and waited for the ferry . |
| 11 | She showed me a little bottle before we got back on the truck . |
| 12 | And er lovely with all the Egyptian markings on the inside of the wall and er then we got back on the barge and er we continued our journey to Khartoum north . |
| 13 | And the worst thing you can do is give your skin a short period of intensive exposure to sun — exactly what we go in for when we jet off on our summer holidays . |
| 14 | We sit round on bins , rugs and the floor for a chat . |
| 15 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 16 | We cooled off on our way back to camp with a swim in a roadside lake ; a memorable day . |
| 17 | We bounced round on that pallet bed , so much laughing and shouting that the landlord came up . |
| 18 | What I do n't like is that we went back did n't we , I do n't know if you saw my thing to David where we report back on a fax , report every month |
| 19 | In our comfortable holiday home the kids cut out and coloured a dynasty of paper people while we caught up on our videos . |
| 20 | It was a very happy meeting , as we caught up on all that had happened since those distant Bideford days . |
| 21 | We lined up on the foredeck to give the traditional three cheers for her Majesty at the appropriate moment . |
| 22 | And if if we home in on that then certainly then that 's a nice comfortable seven fifty to eight hundred pound a week . |
| 23 | If we if we home in on something like that two eight three thousand then we 're going to be earn earning that much for ourselves . |
| 24 | When we 're talking to the people on the phone we home in on a thousand pound . |
| 25 | So we home in on five thousand booklets . |
| 26 | Once , before starting a new stage in the story , we catch up on the other branch of the family . |
| 27 | Earlier this week we dropped in on a competitor who was going through erm all the motions of getting his erm display ready and we saw what was involved . |
| 28 | After about five hours we dropped down on Athens in a soft rain . |
| 29 | At the same time , we cut back on proposed capital expenditure and made plans to repay borrowings . |
| 30 | We look over his shoulder when he writes his dispatches ; we listen in on his conversation with other statesmen ; we read and anticipate his very thoughts . |