Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] the [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transworld has added up the units on the list for home and export sales . |
| 2 | B would fail to comply with this if , when asked for brake fluid , he knowingly passes A the oil , or when asked to tighten up the bolts on the steering column he merely pretends to do so Similarly , A would fail to observe the maxim of Quantity , the injunction to make one 's contribution in the right proportion , if " when B needs three bolts , he purposely passes him only one , or alternatively passes him 300 . |
| 3 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 4 | We are not going to enquire into the details how such beams can be produced ( it belongs to the subject of physical electronics ) ; we shall accept the fact that the beam exists and will try to work out the forces on the outermost electrons . |
| 5 | If you come from a long line of octogenarians , then clearly you will need to work out the sums on the basis of the next 20 years or longer . |
| 6 | Filling in the details on the marriage certificate may have proved a problem for Benjamin : his mother was now past hope in the workhouse , and his father had died when he himself was less than two years old . |
| 7 | Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it . |
| 8 | But Hebbert was there , guide in hand , picking out the classics on the Left Wall ( he reasoned it had to be a route on the left wall to provide a contrast to the big slab route just completed ) . |
| 9 | Multiplying out the brackets on the right-hand side and rearranging : Equation ( 5.7 ) is the capital asset pricing model . |
| 10 | ( a ) What the Registers contain The three registers that make up the Entries on the Register — the Property Register , the Proprietorship Register and the Charges Register — contain the whole title of the registered proprietor including entries protective of the rights and interests of third parties by registration of notices , cautions , inhibitions and restrictions . |
| 11 | For others , the medium is most certainly not the message , and the curriculum is more narrowly defined as that collection of bodies of knowledge which make up the subjects on the school timetable . |
| 12 | Placing her confidence and trust in him she was guided by the trader and signed the form in blank and agreed with the trader that , if he succeeded in obtaining terms acceptable to her , he would then be able to fill in the details on the form and send it to the finance company . |
| 13 | Use this side as a guide to mark up the measurements on the opposite side , before cutting , and then repeat the process for the other two sides . |
| 14 | The Simpsons started life as animated shorts breaking up the sketches on The Tracey Ullman Show . |
| 15 | THIS is one of those traumatic American dramas that aims to put you through the emotional mangle and spit out the pieces on the other side . |
| 16 | I dictate and Cats scribbles away and bashes out the replies on the word processor kindly loaned to us by the theatre . |
| 17 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 18 | At the beginning of exercise strength is often good , and then it steadily declines with increasing effort and , in severe cases , patients are weak all the time ; they ca n't see properly ; they see double ; their eyelids droop ; they ca n't hold their heads up ; they ca n't chew ; they ca n't swallow ; their arms and legs are weak ; they ca n't peg out the clothes on the washing line ; they ca n't walk upstairs , and in really severe cases they ca n't even breathe — unless they 're supported on life support machines they would die . |
| 19 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
| 20 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 21 | I ca n't quite make out the items on the list , however many times I go over it , or rather I ca n't make out the rooms on the staircase , or the stairs on my son 's forehead . |
| 22 | On another low table by the wall there was an inexpensive stereo unit and some uneven stacks of records ; he could n't make out the details on the posters on the wall above the unit , but they might have been Escher prints . |
| 23 | The position had been reached where she could not make out the labels on the cans of food she was heating up . |
| 24 | You make out the labels on the side there |
| 25 | On the adverse side , the field has become too small for comfort , and it is not easy to line up the binoculars on the target . |
| 26 | The soil 's being used to build up the defences on the banks of the River Severn in Gloucestershire . |
| 27 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 28 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 29 | With that beat I needed a really stomping guitar line to go with it so I worked it through in my head and then worked out the chords on the piano . |
| 30 | As he 'd quietly read out the names on the teamsheet , there 'd be 16 players sitting on the edge of their seats , all waiting and expecting to be picked . |