Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 2 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 3 | If we push down on the canvas by putting a heavy object on it we create a dent . |
| 4 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 5 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 6 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 7 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 8 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 9 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 10 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 11 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 12 | In course of time McKenzie did just that and the four divers slipped over the side , touching down on the deck of the Delos just over an hour after leaving the Ariadne . |
| 13 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 14 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 15 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 16 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 17 | this one , look at the back , I think the reason it 's so big is to go in on the sockets at the back , put , you can put two tapes on it |
| 18 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 19 | ‘ I was kneeling down on the beach beside a lake when I felt this appallingly painful tingling sensation in my knee . |
| 20 | She saw him flex his ankle and wince , and she stood up and went over to him , kneeling down on the end of one of the sleeping-bags . |
| 21 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |
| 22 | By analogy with the genetic information raining down on the canal from my willow tree , we could say that the dust carries ‘ instructions ’ for how to dam streams and eventually make more dust . |
| 23 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 24 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 25 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 26 | The action had also electrified the crowd who were pressing in on the ring despite the best efforts of the khalifas to keep them all back . |
| 27 | She sank down on the bed with the photograph gripped so tightly in her hands that the paper buckled . |
| 28 | With a small sigh that sounded distinctly apologetic , she sank down on the edge of the armchair opposite him . |
| 29 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 30 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |