Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 2 | Then he saw her shoes , scuffed with mud , placed together on a sheet of newspaper at the hearth , and his heart leapt . |
| 3 | Ngune was helped into the back of the van and placed gently on a palliasse with his head resting on a pillow . |
| 4 | This is a formidable task even for a human navigator , but as we have found out in the past few years , the bees ' trigonometric adjustments are perfectly mindless , depending only on a memory of the Sun 's azimuth relative to the bee 's goal on the previous trip ( or day ) and an extrapolation of the Sun 's current rate of azimuth movement . |
| 5 | One sequence , filmed in Maidenhead , showed Crawford , dressed up in a fireman 's uniform , peddling furiously on a bike in an attempt to catch up with the engine . |
| 6 | Most of us are located somewhere on a continuum between these two positions . |
| 7 | Each of us lies somewhere on a spectrum of ability to show feeling which is reflected in our behaviour . |
| 8 | But Vinnie 's man with his head staved in on a patch of waste ground near Deptford Station does not get mentioned . |
| 9 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 10 | If you have decided on this as your opening sequence , you may like the idea of beginning it with a fade in on a close-up of some brightly lit seasonal decoration in a shopping precinct — the face of a life-size Santa would be an ideal way to set the mood . |
| 11 | At last , the hand — held European anti — tank missile BRITAIN , France and West Germany have decided to work together on a family of new missiles that will destroy , tanks . |
| 12 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 13 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 14 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 15 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 16 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 17 | The 2% drop in audit and business advisory services is blamed largely on a combination of the recession , fierce competition and ‘ severe downward pressure ’ on fees , while the knock-on effect of clients ' postponing discretionary spending was a 5% drop in management consultancy fee income . |
| 18 | Lanham predicts the emergence of a new ‘ rhetoric of the arts ’ which will focus not on a set of ‘ Great Ideas ’ but on ‘ how knowledge is held ’ ( 286 ) , both on the medium and on the message , and of course , on their interaction . |
| 19 | Using EBG , one might observe just one species , a sparrow , and deduce that any bird with short wings and a short beak could survive comfortably on a diet of seeds and insects . |
| 20 | While he was supervising the preparation of his constitution and orchestrating its presentation to the people of France and the French Community , de Gaulle moved decisively on a number of other fronts , particularly economic and diplomatic . |
| 21 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 22 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 23 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg . |
| 24 | When he is perched precariously on a sandbag at the time , however , you could just about get away with charging extra . |
| 25 | ’ I 'm a loner who likes to curl up on a sofa with a good book , ’ she says . |
| 26 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 27 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 28 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 29 | The rental sector meanwhile provides — along with all the box-office successes which nowadays transfer to tape within a few months and probably need no further introduction — the chance to catch up on a variety of ( often more deserving ) movies which have been less widely seen in cinemas here . |
| 30 | Kylie admits that the tour of the chic boutiques in Paris , London and New York gave the sisters a chance to catch up on a lot of the times they had missed when the demands of television companies just had to take priority over family . |