Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 2 | Hopefully , YTS permitting , the rest of the country can catch them on the forthcoming Teenage Fannies tour . |
| 3 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 4 | They skirted the city , threading their way through the still-silent streets and , following the Prior 's careful directions , soon found themselves on the broad beaten approach to the port of Leith . |
| 5 | She poked busily at the concoctions , withdrew the tins from the oven and put them on the scrubbed wooden table to cool . |
| 6 | Simon had put Ben onto his lead so that he did n't run back down to the beach and cut himself on the rusty barbed wire . |
| 7 | Might I have seen you on the Great White Way ? ’ |
| 8 | You 'd be well advised not to overdo it on the old liquid refreshment , however , as the return leg beside the river involves crossing an awful lot of stiles . |
| 9 | The management prides itself on the true Italian-style home cooking served in the dining-room , and the excellent roof-top terrace affords beautiful views over Sorrento and the Gulf of Naples . |
| 10 | The project prides itself on the intensive post-placement support offered to the children by their old key workers , and to the family by the family placement worker . |
| 11 | Then she went through and threw herself on the comfortable cool silk bedcover , and lay in luxury , gazing up at the gently rotating white fan . |
| 12 | Franco pulled glasses two at a time from the sink and set them on the tiny draining board . |
| 13 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 14 | Um well we did n't know what to do with the money , so we basically gambled it on the Grand National . |
| 15 | In reaching his decision he founded himself on the only reported case as far as we know that has been decided under this provision ; it is the decision of the Court of Appeal in Brown v Liverpool Corporation [ 1969 ] 3 AER 1345 . |
| 16 | In 1983 , for example , Gallup found that of voters who placed themselves on the political left and right , 22 per cent placed themselves at various ranges of the left end of the scale ( from ‘ far ’ to ‘ slightly ’ left ) , 51 per cent placed themselves on the right , and 13 per cent regarded themselves as middle of the road . |
| 17 | Using the striped ribbon technique , make a small gift tag and lay it on the small red parcel with a white twisted ribbon to secure . |
| 18 | Some brightly coloured butterflies , orange and yellow and black and white — his father would have known their names — sunned themselves on the mellow rosy brickwork , spreading their wings flat in the heat . |
| 19 | For almost the whole of their walk their objective had been in sight : the green copper cupola of the soaring campanile of Arthur Blomfield 's extraordinary Romanesque basilica , built in 1870 on the bank of this sluggish urban waterway with as much confidence as if he had erected it on the Venetian Grand Canal . |
| 20 | Of whom there were more than a few I would imagine , thinking of how she had thrown herself on the poor defenceless Marcus . |
| 21 | To my surprise , voices from the Labour Benches shouted , ’ Put him on the Scottish Grand Committee . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ With one bound I would throw myself on the large white bearskin , which I adored , and cover its great head with kisses . ’ |
| 23 | I think I can help you on the particular limited point of deaths and their effect . |
| 24 | No doubt , as the election approaches , the Conservatives will seek to blame everything on the right hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) — a close friend of the Chancellor , whom I am glad to see in the Chamber . |
| 25 | The old lady sat herself on the red plush sofa and behind her the woodwork of the grand piano gleamed in the dim light . |
| 26 | Sorry to be so vague , darling , but blame it on the unreliable British climate . |