Example sentences of "jump [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith McPhilips , 35 , was drinking in the Restalrig Inn , Edinburgh , when he was repeatedly struck with pool cues , hit with a chair , punched and kicked and had his head jumped on in a sustained attack . |
| 2 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 3 | He persuaded General Electric to waste millions developing a rotary compressor , almost persuaded Utah to jump on to the cold-fusion bandwagon , and failed to rescue Wang laboratories from bankruptcy . |
| 4 | A jury found that Mr McCaffrey had forced open the doors of the lift and squeezed through a narrow 11in gap in a bid to jump down to the third floor landing . |
| 5 | Let's jump in at the deep end — literally . |
| 6 | It is possible to jump in at the deep end , buy a farm , and teach yourself , learning by your mistakes . |
| 7 | If it is too drastic to jump in at the deep end with such a sweeping change , why not try it out in experimental matches , festival or night matches ? |
| 8 | And as Cram prepared to jump in at the deep end with a clash against Olympic 10,000m champion Khalid Skah in the BUPA International Festival of Running , race organiser Brendan Foster tipped his pal to rekindle memories of his glory days in his new event . |
| 9 | Not wanting to jump in at the deep end , I hired the school the day before and went with Karen , a friend who wanted to give her experienced but spooky horse an indoor schooling session . |
| 10 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 11 | But in the sixties and seventies , that 's where all the kids used to jump up onto the flat roof , that was the area where they jumped up , so this could be a result of what has happened from there , I mean that 's why the |
| 12 | And I did n't want to jump out into the fast-moving darkness without any boots and within range of fifty tommy-guns . |
| 13 | Whether she would in fact have opened the door and tried to jump out of a moving vehicle proved to be an academic question . |
| 14 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 15 | The instruction then operates as follows : Load A and L into internal processor registers Perform the comparison with the word at A If the comparison is successful , terminate the instruction Otherwise , decrement L and increment A If L is zero , terminate the instruction Otherwise , jump back to the second line |
| 16 | I immediately asked Dennis if he was OK , and pointed out that I thought that the ball had jumped up from a good length . |
| 17 | In the opinion of many Bohm had jumped out of an indeterminate frying pan into a crackling non-local fire . |
| 18 | Well he jumps down into the fucking lift shaft and he slipped on i oh eh well you fucking bastard you ! |
| 19 | Now McFall either jumps in at the deep end or dithers and backs off — he never falls off . |
| 20 | Tom jumps in at the deep end |
| 21 | As firms set prices alternately over consecutive periods , price falls by small steps from the upper limit of the interval until it reaches the lower limit and then jumps back to the upper limit and the cycle begins again . |
| 22 | a spark jumps out of an ordinary household fire and causes it to spread . |
| 23 | Try jumping down from a low platform , landing with bent knees . |
| 24 | In a kind of skipping movement he shifts his weight to the forward , leading right leg , scooping the left foot in front of the right knee and jumping off with the right leg so that it passes the left foot again . |
| 25 | ‘ Your Majesty ! ’ said the White Rabbit , jumping up in a great hurry . |
| 26 | The stunt — which involved jumping out of a hot air balloon attached to a piece of elastic — has never been attempted in Britain before . |
| 27 | He went off to Barnard Castle up in the North somewhere to practice jumping out of a captive balloon , but he only had one go at |
| 28 | A strong easterly wind when she comes out ; she 'll do a good bit o' rolling there , jumping about with the easterly wind , anywhere in the North Sea . |
| 29 | Caspar was jumping about like a mad thing . |
| 30 | Schools went in for a lot of physical education , ‘ drill ’ , which involved jumping about in a drafty hall with your skirt tucked into your knickers if you were female . |