Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can remember doing Bartholomew Fair at the Royal Court Theatre with the NYT and seeing all the scenery and lighting down on the stage at the end of the last performance and thinking how exciting it was to belong to the world of make-believe . |
| 2 | In order to further speed and cheapen the process , inferior ingredients such as maize , rice , triticale , wheat flour and potato starch are used and helped on their way by chemicals that hasten fermentation , cut down on the yeast head in the vessels to allow more wort to be treated , and to give a lively fake head to the finished product . |
| 3 | This still leaves Britain way down on the pasta-eating league . |
| 4 | He sat down on the top step of the landing outside numbers 3 and 4 . |
| 5 | Jessie had come out of No. 3 and now sat stiffly down on the step beside him . |
| 6 | If you look up to the university lecturer or down on the cleaner , either way you 're not facing up to the truth about us all . |
| 7 | She took hold of it and put it down on the floor . |
| 8 | In addition to maintaining positive plant health , there are several ways to avoid the probability of serious pest attacks , or at least lessen their impact , which in turn will cut down on the need to apply pesticides . |
| 9 | It is safe to push backwards , moving down wind with the nose into wind , provided that the airbrakes are open and weight is applied down on the nose . |
| 10 | In a run down on the style of deference he anticipates ( which I note will stifle any critical point from ‘ below decks ’ ) , he talks about his length of tenure and how long it will be before he can ‘ escape back into the real world ’ . |
| 11 | Your leading hand slaps down on the punch as you simultaneously punch over the top and into the opponent 's face . |
| 12 | Have your partner sit down on the mat , extending one leg and flexing the other . |
| 13 | She sat down on the floor and took great heaving breaths as though she had come up a hill with a burden beyond her strength . |
| 14 | Down on the grass and on the bare earth under the chestnut tree , dozens of people now squatted at their ease among the sheep and their droppings , drinking from skin water-bottles and smaller stone ones of ale or whisky . |
| 15 | Gillian took a sip of wine , put the glass down on the table in front of her on top of the brochure from the dating agency , slipped off her shoes and curled her feet up under her on the sofa . |
| 16 | She sat down on the bed . |
| 17 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 18 | Instead , try cutting down on the number of exercises , increasing the weight and making sure that you perform 3 sets of at least 8 reps . |
| 19 | Lie face down on the floor with your feet together and your hands shoulder width apart . |
| 20 | Lie face down on the floor with your hands touching in the small of the back and your legs straight out and together . |
| 21 | I shot the longer edge down on the planer . |
| 22 | The inevitable happened and I was off , dangling upside down on the end of the rope seconds later , 30 feet below , parallel to my climbing companions . |
| 23 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 24 | ‘ She looked at her step-mother but uttered not a single word ; she simply picked up our big drap-de-dames green shawl ( it 's a shawl we all use , a drap-de-dames one ) , and covered her head and face entirely with it ad lay down on the bed with her face to the wall , ad her little shoulders and her whole body were trembling . ' |
| 25 | When original objectives were set out in the early 1980s for improving services and reducing costs at the exchange through cutting down on the amount of paperwork , more detailed efforts were made to put the objectives into action . |
| 26 | Werner Kratschull , a pastor and dissident , said he had been told that East Berlin would crack down on the opposition ‘ in the Chinese manner ’ if there was trouble . |
| 27 | But who can blame UEFA , post-Heysel , for coming down on the side of life and limb before either is lost ? |
| 28 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 29 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 30 | ‘ Green form ’ advice for consumer problems was 16 per cent down on the previous year . |