Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [noun] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anderson was booked in the first half for bringing down Marin on a night when the Germans again showed their propensity for going down theatrically under straightforward challenges . |
| 2 | Their hosts drew up chairs on the other ; the one who was apparently the senior of the two said , ‘ Julia , I think we could manage some more coffee … ’ |
| 3 | AN MP is keeping up pressure on the Government to improve East Anglia 's coastal defences after last month 's surge tide which resulted in widespread flooding . |
| 4 | It would also be better from the point of view of traffic — she had n't yet looked up Hallborough on a map , but she guessed she would need her car to get to it . |
| 5 | Twice I 've picked up goods on a shelf marked reduced and then found , because of the bar codes , I was charged full price at the pay-out desk . |
| 6 | By this means we build up data on the quality of a raw material , its variability and the reliance of a supplier in the quality concept . |
| 7 | Each of us was encouraged to try out solutions on the board and you would ask other class members what they thought and whether they had anything to contribute as an alternative . |
| 8 | Erm , she actually traced back calls on the station log and it was done from the first of October nineteen ninety two to the thirtieth of September nineteen ninety three and during that time we had over five thousand three hundred and thirty calls , of which one thousand one hundred and sixty six originated from , so that is erm twenty point three percent of the calls received at police station and were held on came from , which is quite a lot . |
| 9 | During 1992 , more than 30 film crews have carried out features on the Group . |
| 10 | ‘ Another time I asked him about his having turned down Parliament on a point of principle . |
| 11 | William Hill said it refuses to accept wagers on the state of royal marriages and has often turned down bets on a Charles and Diana split . |
| 12 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 13 | In his version , Gloucester met with Hastings and his allies in the Tower , and cried out that he had been ambushed , whereupon waiting soldiers rushed in and cut down Hastings on the spot . |
| 14 | A hydraulic ram was used to open these gates by means of chains passing over pulleys on the lintel of the frame , giving a velocity ration of 3 to 1 . |
| 15 | These fingers holding cups and glasses are the ones you see picking over clothes on the stalls . |
| 16 | They could have followed us the four hours to Dieppe in the hope of picking up trade on the way back ; but that makes for a ten-hour day . |
| 17 | Charged by Bragg with writing up notes on the case , Morton decided that they could equally well be done that night , at home . |
| 18 | THIS year 's machinations over disposal of the Ivory Coast 's cocoa crop indirectly pushed up prices on the London Futures & Options Exchange yesterday as dealers scrambled to obtain cocoa to deliver against a substantial long position controlled by Philipp Brothers , the big American commodity trading group . |
| 19 | I have been present at occasions of celebration when poets and singers — there is often no distinction since poems tend to be sung or chanted — have made up verses on the spot and provided a seemingly endless number of embellishments . |
| 20 | Customers can call Firstdirect at any time of the day or night at local call rates and be immediately connected to a banking representative who will carry out instructions on the computer . |
| 21 | Their party will carry out research on the hole in the Ozone layer . |
| 22 | Firstly , I used a no4 round to pick out detail on the highlights of a sea trout , and on the plumage of a woodcock . |
| 23 | Rachaela got up and went to set out tins on the work-top in the kitchen . |
| 24 | The Duke of Dunstable , however , a Wodehouse creation , was never happier than when firing off letters on the subject of the government 's iniquitous rates of income tax . |
| 25 | The harassing of those caught out by need where they had no settlement was the dark side of the eighteenth-century Poor Law with its associated evasive strategies such as hiring for less than a year , pulling down cottages on the wastes , apprenticing pauper children beyond the bounds and hustling unwilling couples into marriage to avoid the maintenance of a bastard . |
| 26 | I was rubbing the dusty ball of his hair against my cheek as I turned over papers on the desk . |
| 27 | The three standing stones of Lundin Links in Fife now watch over play on a golf course , though without providing any additional hazard . |
| 28 | Why are others handed over opportunities on a plate when I have to fight for them ? |
| 29 | Well , I wrote out births , deaths , marriage certificates , and er then measured up houses on the rating side , erm worked them out for evaluations . |
| 30 | Such revision could increase the value of friendships , autonomy and other forms of creativity , and open up discussion on the pleasures of celibacy , masturbation , shared sex . |