Example sentences of "from [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It makes a change from jogging on the spot to ‘ Sesame 's Treet ’ , ’ announced one girl in that unavoidable staple of female club culture , the loo queue . |
| 2 | This is essentially what has been done at Foster Wheeler over the past six years , and the views expressed in this paper arise largely from reflecting on the experiences of that project . |
| 3 | The gain to a firm from reneging on the collusive agreement will depend partly on cost , demand , and capacity parameters and partly on the length of time for which a higher profit than that realized under the agreement can be earned before retaliation by the other firms takes place . |
| 4 | In Oz David Widgery took time off from musing on the revolution to provide an obituary for Jack Kerouac , one of the people with whom the entire movement had started . |
| 5 | The two abrupt changes in plot — from walking on the deck to the water , and from the water to the next world — are typical of the " scene-shift " phenomenon of dreaming . |
| 6 | You know , trying stop you from walking on the |
| 7 | The House summoned him to attend in August , and in October Rushbrooke was searched for arms ; in mid-November he was again summoned , accused of sending the king money and discouraging the Bury townsmen from contributing on the Propositions . |
| 8 | They also prevented the general public from landing on the island , one of the most interesting and spectacular in Scotland . |
| 9 | Heavy seas prevented salvage teams from landing on the wreck and hampered the clean-up operation . |
| 10 | This controversial political lineage caused the Republican Party establishment to disown him , and in several states there were plans to attempt to prevent his name from appearing on the ballot papers . |
| 11 | Meanwhile , with weather experts predicting a rather colder winter than last year , the priority is blankets — to prevent those turned away from Farnsby House and other hostels from dying on the streets . |
| 12 | Drivers exceeding the speed limit will be reported to site management and may be barred from driving on the site and may be subject to disciplinary action . |
| 13 | I remember the time when two sheepdogs were daily tethered at this bridge , one at each side , to deter sheep from wandering on the road from the open fell : a sort of canine cattle grid . |
| 14 | Once Duncan had managed to fire off a report and stop his watch-replacement from stumbling on the terrorists , he had settled down to keep an eye on the gang . |
| 15 | Liability could follow simply from passing on the statement . |
| 16 | The electric industry is prohibited from passing on the costs of environmental protection to the public . |
| 17 | Roquefort is always foil wrapped as this prevents a rind from forming on the cheese . |
| 18 | Like Roquefort ( see p96 ) , most blue cheeses are wrapped in foil to prevent any skin or crust from forming on the cheese . |
| 19 | The Council was exempted from meeting on the sixty or so annual festival days , but not on the monthly ones ; this adds up to a large number of meetings ( c.300 ) held per year . |
| 20 | Another Orkney councillor , Ian MacDonald , believed he was barred from serving on the Social Work Committee because of his continued support for Mrs Kemp . |
| 21 | Columbine too started life as a servant of the gods and gradually rose in rank from waiting on the aristocracy to conspiring with Harlequin in such ballets as The Good- Humoured Ladies , where the two of them appear as serving maid and waiter . |
| 22 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 23 | Counter-insurgency and its attendant covert and intelligence aspects have had an inordinate degree of latitude and influence on policy in Ulster partly because the Westminster cabinet and parliament are incredibly ignorant of the region and have been well content if the English politicians and Whitehall civil servants who administer it from the Northern Ireland Office at Stormont Castle succeeded in preventing its problems from impinging on the affairs of the mainland . |
| 24 | I 'm real stiff from lying on the bench , so I get up and stretch . |
| 25 | ‘ Would that be from lying on the hall floor with yer nose under the door ? ’ |
| 26 | The patient was thereafter allowed to move about freely apart from lying on the right side . |
| 27 | Apart from bruising on the face it was very familiar . |
| 28 | The transactions by which Union Discount had alleged it had suffered loss were too remote from reporting on the accounts . |
| 29 | Cover the pan with a cloth — to prevent steam from condensing on the cover of the pan and falling back on the curd — and the lid , and leave it for two to four hours , until the curd is fairly firm . |
| 30 | The students were prevented by police from marching on the offices of President Islam Karimov . |