Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | there 's a row of houses right on , by top |
| 3 | Those poor Dutch people , it must have been awful having the Germans right on their border and no English Channel to keep them out . |
| 4 | Its activities enabled the Heseltine campaign to seize the initiative and sustain a momentum which kept its opponents mostly on the defensive . |
| 5 | As the women struck the lodges , a P scout signalled : ‘ Enemies right on us ! |
| 6 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 7 | They 're for those upper-class twits who turn up halfway through seminars and who never bother to get their essays in on time . |
| 8 | You hand your essays in on time , |
| 9 | Blooms wetly on her dress . |
| 10 | The argument rests in part on the pervasive nature of deixis ( see Chapter 2 below ) in natural languages , for sentences like ( II ) are true or false only relative to contextual parameters , thanks to the fact that I , now and the tense of am are variables given specific values only on particular occasions of utterance ( i.e. ( II ) is true only when spoken by certain speakers , those who are sixty-three , or true of individuals only at certain times , when they are sixty-three ) : ( 11 ) I am now sixty-three years old These facts seem to establish that truth conditions must be assigned to utterances , i.e. sentences with their associated contexts of utterance , not to sentences alone ( or , if one likes , truth conditions include context conditions ) . |
| 11 | Nadobenko , although a previous stage winner , had started the final stage almost seven minutes down on Lillywhite overall . |
| 12 | Before the end of the 18th century , this was confirmed by the Society electing to have three contests annually on the day of the papingo shoot — one each for the ‘ gentlemen ’ , the ‘ merchants and tradesmen ’ , and the ‘ boys ’ , with only the ‘ gentlemen ’ eligible to shoot for the papingo trophy . |
| 13 | Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward . |
| 14 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 15 | But not as many as you would have if you were using the treble clef because you 'd probably end up with a lot of lower this is wha , that is n't a particularly good example really because it has n't given a lot of lower notes but normally you 'd expect to see more notes down on these lines . |
| 16 | What I 'd like you to do , is to have a look at your time , one , and first of all see notes down on it , make a note beside each task that you 've got on there , whether it 's active or reactive . |
| 17 | By January 1957 , seven months after its establishment , the TBC was broadcasting six hours daily on weekdays . |
| 18 | Can energy efficiency and a greater dependence on natural gas cut carbon emissions sufficiently on their own ? |
| 19 | So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground . |
| 20 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 21 | Very deliberately she closed her teeth gently on his fingertip , her eyes holding his , and with a smothered sound Penry jerked his hand away and seized her in his arms , his kiss igniting a response which set them both alight . |
| 22 | Listeners elsewhere in Scotland will be able to hear Radio nan Gaidheal 's evening programmes only on medium wave and in a later slot , as listeners have indicated that the present 6:15 to 7:30pm slot is too early and clashes with prime time Gaelic television . |
| 23 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 24 | The bouncer — bullies , as they were called in Dublin — stepped away from Lee , and eased the hammers down on the shotgun . |
| 25 | Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the phone table . |
| 26 | There were the inevitable demands that the new Soviet ‘ threat ’ be repulsed : the United States , some thought , should forget about the Europeans and concentrate its diplomatic and military skills entirely on the Pacific . |
| 27 | Like mammals , birds have taste buds only on their tongues , and smell by sniffing the air . |
| 28 | Despite this concern , from the point of view of health care planning , the principle of funding authorities basically on a weighted per capita basis , with no allowance for cross-boundary flow , is to be welcomed . |
| 29 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 30 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |