Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 2 | Resentfully Kate took it from him before moving to sit down on one of the sofas . |
| 3 | It swooped down on one of the dogs and was standing on its chest with its beak at her throat . |
| 4 | and then it homes in on one of the men right and it goes sort of whee one hour later whee whee bom bom bom and the other one goes one hour later right and the computer just explodes and it just goes boom |
| 5 | The shops and showrooms themselves are worth visiting if you want to catch up on some of the latest modern furniture , lighting and fabric design . |
| 6 | This definition , according to Schumpeter , is a summary or basis of a revised theory of democracy which is much truer to life and at the same time salvages much of what the sponsors of democratic method really mean by this term' Schumpeter builds up a definition of the modern political system in the West , which he claims ‘ to try out on some of the more important features of the structure and working of the political engine in democratic countries ’ . |
| 7 | If I can pick up with motion three eight zero which refers to the privatation of sat statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay the C E C would like reference back on this for the very basis that the point is they do still remain State benefits and those who qualify them , for them , are legally entitled to do so . |
| 8 | Post-mortems carried out on two of the dead swans have proved inconclusive , but Mr O'Sullivan said he suspected the birds had fallen prey to the same disease which hit the colony before . |
| 9 | ‘ This was a dastardly act carried out on one of the busiest days of the week . |
| 10 | trying to get through the , he says oh them people have left here , now you 'll have to , and he gives us another two numbers and that , I got through on one of the numbers and then er , I asked I says oh I says I did n't get me photograph and me plastic wallet , he says well you do n't really need them you know when you retired , but I says how can you go on the train , you sure of that ? |
| 11 | Today when you look down from the top of the mountain which once provided jobs for 85 per cent of the male population you 're looking down on one of the poorest cities in Bolivia.When the price of tin crashed on the world markets in 1985 the state mines were closed down and 25,000 people lost their jobs . |
| 12 | My son , he wrote , moving on to a new page , my son , who is a keen footballer and a passionate supporter of our local team , Brighton and Hove Albion ( the Seagulls ) , was surprised the other day when , looking in on one of the team 's training sessions in the sports pavilion of the University of Sussex , he . |
| 13 | On the product front — and picking up on some of the work it did for ACE — the company says an Intel Corp P5-specific SCO Unix kernel is a possibility . |
| 14 | I do n't stand a hope in hell of answering them all but I 'm going to try my damnedest , and to that end have missed out on most of the company parties and outings . |
| 15 | He recalls in On Some of the Mental Affections of Childhood and Youth ( 1887 ) that in early life he had seen that ‘ children who were afflicted by mental alienation or mental incapacity of any kind ’ were categorized as idiots and considered incapable of responding to help . |
| 16 | He has n't shown up on any of the ferry company computers , or any of the airline ones , for that matter . |
| 17 | The top lifts at Cairngorm were opened on Friday 23 November with 300–400 earlybirds turning up on each of the first few days . |
| 18 | It shows up on one of the pictures — and I think that 's the only bit of pain he got from that . ’ |
| 19 | Autoquote , regarded as a world leader in the field of accident repair software systems , is described as being so comprehensive that if one coughs in one of Heggie 's workshops it immediately shows up on one of the system 's screens with a cost attached . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , his master , all eighteen or so stone of him would loll back on one of the side seats , making no effort to drive . |
| 21 | She was sitting hunched up on one of the two comfortable chairs in the cubby-hole where the staff went for their breaks . |
| 22 | Although the benefits of dietary fibre are still in the process of scientific investigation , we want to make sure that you do n't miss out on any of the advantages , both those which are known and those still to be fully revealed . |
| 23 | And you wo n't miss out on any of the action because all of our demonstrations will be relayed on a large video screen . |
| 24 | Because you 're not going to have to go back on many of the things . |
| 25 | Now news of live football coming up on Central in the new season . |
| 26 | That night I slept on the subway , curled up on one of the seats . |
| 27 | Léonie curled up on one of the bits of carpet . |
| 28 | But for the ultimate indulgence this winter , splash out on one of the new fake furs . |
| 29 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |
| 30 | Dragging two musty-smelling blankets from the storage locker outside her door , she left one folded up as a pillow , shook the other one out and wrapped it around her , then lay down on one of the settees which provided seating and converted to pilot-berths on either side of the drop-leaf dining table . |