Example sentences of "[prep] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a child I could remember gatherings of two or three hundred people , but there were less than a hundred out on the dry grass . |
| 2 | Thank you for looking after on those really black days when even he seemed too much to cope with . |
| 3 | Communally maintained for the benefit of all the residents , the setting of the house remains unchanged with a certainty that it will be looked after on a continuing basis . |
| 4 | He embarked soon after on his long verse-tragedy Osorio , a story ‘ romantic & wild & somewhat terrible ’ , which he set in Spain at the time of the Inquisition , but which was to draw , at least to a small extent , on his Quantock and Exmoor wanderings of the next few months . |
| 5 | Hayling had realized that although women 's interests were being looked after on the paper , there was already suspicion of NoS in the black community . |
| 6 | February 4 , 1992 : DHC–3 Otter floatplane N13GA of Taquan Air Service crashed after on approach to Mrtlakatla , Alaska . |
| 7 | So that was me with a habit and two kids to look after on 36 quid a week social … . |
| 8 | He had the expatriate knack of being lent things and getting himself looked after on his return to the native land , and as they talked it became apparent that we were to be entertained to lunch by the gallery owner . |
| 9 | His brother Evelyn came , I remember , one morning soon after on his way to Adelaide , to send back provisions to his party , whom he had left quite out of flour . |
| 10 | In my mind while you 're talking is about these three children who presumably er this gentleman 's wife was supposed to be looking after on thirty pounds a week . |
| 11 | Unfortunately in Perk 's case , her innocence leads to her death after on her way to school wearing her yellow dress , she pops into see her Godmother who is often referred to as the most beautiful woman around and has beautiful skin , a good body and lovely thick dark curly hair . |
| 12 | I bet after on Friday |
| 13 | Furthermore , all of them , despite on occasions entering states of manifest psychosis , remained sufficiently fluent to articulate their experiences , either in their fiction or in records of their lives , or both . |
| 14 | So it 's with added comprehension that a reader of On the Look-Out can approach the taut ferocity of Sisson 's early poems and the sombreness of those more recent , the jarring plainness of his Divine Comedy and other such translations , the savagery of his two gaunt novels , and the war against fashion-induced mediocrity waged by Sisson the literary critic . |
| 15 | The floodgates were now open and it is from here that the reverse sequence of On the Look-Out commences . |
| 16 | The Lettrists and the Situationists had used ‘ pre-existing elements ’ for their own ends , and so the editors of the Boston text and the curators of On the Passage have , they feel , a certain entitlement to do the same . |
| 17 | The auditors also found Whitehall slow to adapt to new technology , and that millions was spent on correcting letters by hand instead of on word processors . |
| 18 | Have n't you got him back yet ? did you say he was last heard of on the Silk Road and he should have been in Caledonia. ? oh dear ! and Boudicca 's got his legs ready . |
| 19 | Some were impatient of disarmament talks which never resulted in the abandoning of a single weapon ; some were appalled by Civil Defence pamphlets which advocated spending your last four minutes on earth whitewashing your windows and by planners who talked blithely in terms of ‘ megadeaths ’ ; some were convinced that Armageddon would be next week : the immensely influential film of On the Beach showed the last survivors , in Melbourne , waiting for death in 1963 . |
| 20 | Logitech 's FotoMan digital camera stores 32 digitized photos in random access memory instead of on film . |
| 21 | They were astonished to hear that in Britain it costs more than £3 to go to the cinema ( a Filipino obsession ) , when it costs only 3p in Dapitan , and to learn that teenage girls in Britain could go on a date with their boyfriends without a chaperone ; something disapproved of on Mindanao ) . |
| 22 | Building contracts are sold to insiders , rubbish is disposed of on payment of massive backhanders and driving licences have been sold back to convicted drink-drivers . |
| 23 | I 'm sort of on leave . |
| 24 | In his hand he holds the precious end of an old frayed piece of rope , the kind pedlars sold piles of on Lima 's Abancay — the beginnings of an answer . |
| 25 | In this respect , the emergence of a nouveau nouveau roman was said to have evolved which was deemed to be characterized by this emphasis on textual productivity , instead of on reference and representation . |
| 26 | For even taking into account my employer 's generous offer to ‘ foot the bill for the gas ’ , the costs of such a trip might still come to a surprising amount considering such matters as accommodation , meals , and any small snacks I might partake of on my way . |
| 27 | The right to wear them over the left breast pocket instead of on the sleeve was granted to those who had taken part in three trips behind the lines . |
| 28 | That is unless it 's sold to the sort of person who blasts half of his land away to quarry gravel for motorways , like someone I can think of on the west coast . |
| 29 | Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field , or on to a muck trailer in the yard ? |
| 30 | In saying this , I do not overlook the enormous amount of on the whole useful and imaginative work on a new-style curriculum undertaken by the Schools Council . |