Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 2 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 3 | Right if you have a look at what has come up on the screen , on the screen . |
| 4 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 5 | A teenage girl was seriously injured when a distress flare she found washed up on the beach at Margate , Kent , exploded in her pocket . |
| 6 | This remedy may come up after a Belladonna sore throat has gone down on the chest . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co has swung back on the offensive in the US with a predatory enhanced workstation trade-in programme , which it says accepts the broadest range of workstations , personal computers and X terminals in part exchange for new Precision Architecture RISC workstations and X stations . |
| 8 | That privilege , and the airs and presumption that went with it , are still resented ; and some of the resentment has rubbed off on the poet . |
| 9 | Simon Wigg has lined up on the starting grid in more world championships than most people have changed tyres . |
| 10 | ‘ Belinda , love , can you remember exactly how you are , and go and get your brush and brush your hair round so that it lies spread out on the chair ? ’ she said . |
| 11 | I rushed him to hospital and the doctor asked how it was done and I said he 'd fallen over on the step . |
| 12 | Close-to and without their performance wigs , these two hardly seemed to connect with anyone that she 'd seen out on the stage less than an hour before ; then they 'd been all front , carnival vamps , not so much real human beings as fantasy figures with hidden human operators . |
| 13 | Mind , he 'd crashed in on the situation pretty damn quickly , stepping in and being nice to her almost before she had dried her eyes , trying to get her on the rebound . |
| 14 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 15 | I 'd gone out on the boat |
| 16 | Because my head landed on his teeth it hurt me more than if I 'd smacked down on the bridge of his nose . |
| 17 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 18 | Karen was lying stretched out on the sofa facing me , staring up at the ceiling . |
| 19 | A few feet away two medics were lying stretched out on the floor of the barn , one lying face down , his arms by his sides , he appeared to be dead . |
| 20 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 21 | The twinkle in his eye was reassuring , but when we tied up at Tobermory and the purser pointed out to sea where a group of small rocks ( or so it seemed ) showed strung out on the horizon like a mother duck with her ducklings after her , I felt a cowardly twinge , and found myself wondering what the ‘ relatively mod cons ’ could be . |
| 22 | The family Rover also became bogged down on the beach road and his brother Anwar suffered a heart attack after spending a night on the open beach . |
| 23 | The feeling was exhilarating ; the war and the fighting were miles away , and for the next four hours we lay stretched out on the sand drying off , and then into the sea again . |
| 24 | In one of those announcements that trigger a double take in observers who find it hard to believe the function had not been available for years , IBM Corp this week finally added Ethernet support for the 3174 cluster controller , long after most users must have given up on the idea and made other arrangements . |
| 25 | ‘ If men never considered the exchange rate in precisely those terms , ’ the man wrote , ‘ then the Caprice and the Ivy would have given up on the supper trade decades ago . ’ |
| 26 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 27 | At the end of every chapter there 's a review of what you 've just learned and a few questions to check that it 's really sunk in ( and a mini glossary of any new terms/jargon you may have picked up on the way . |
| 28 | If I could go back I think I would have come out on the Tour three years later . ’ |
| 29 | But England could have missed out on the youngster if he had chosen the country of his father 's birth . |
| 30 | However , both Royal Scottish and the Bank , might have missed out on the business had it not been for quick-thinking Dave Chinchen , a Bank Officer at Southampton High Street Branch . |