Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 4 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 5 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 6 | Alluvial gold , which most commonly occurs as dust or fine flakes , the residue left behind when lighter materials have been removed by the flow of natural waters , can be won by simple sluicing or washing , or even picked up on the surface in the form of nuggets shaped by the compression of fine particles into compact masses by natural forces . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 9 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 10 | Well they were hung up on the board in O S D on Friday when I went down there |
| 11 | Sunderland L2164 of 228 Squadron was shot up on the water in St. Paul 's Bay on 7 March by Bf109Es of 7/JG26 . |
| 12 | And that , in turn , is likely to feed back on the Government in the form of pressures from the most irresistible of all Tory constituencies , the City . |
| 13 | You will find that the model can be moved around on the ground in this state and that all the controls are effective . |
| 14 | But first , before the orders , true democracy had to be trotted out on the desk in front of the two men like a child 's board game , the dice tossed and a couple of moves played . |
| 15 | At the official launch of the the new Countrywatch campaign the area 's police chief said bobbies were going back on the beat in rural areas . |
| 16 | She writhed about on the floor in agony . |
| 17 | It crunched round on the gravel in front of the house then sped off through the gates scattering white stones . |
| 18 | In the supermarket recently , I crept up on the man in my life who was examining the label on a frozen gateau . |
| 19 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 20 | Meredith was sitting in the stalls with his feet propped up on the row in front . |
| 21 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 22 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 23 | Carolyn lay on her side , spine curved , head right on the edge of the bed so that she could stare down on the baby in its cot beside her . |
| 24 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 25 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 26 | The UK , in particular , is fundamentally opposed to the idea of compulsory employee participation , believing that this is an area best left to individual company policy and fearing that giving in on the issue in this context could lead to similar measures becoming a compulsory feature of EC company law . |
| 27 | Well I know Bon said er they 'd they 'd cut down on the recruiting in fact , I think they 'd closed one of the hospitals in Bristol in the Frenchay where she is has actually got to take erm qualified nurses from that hospital before they take student nurses that they 've trained |
| 28 | I laughed at myself , felt better , and settled down on the window-seat in the sun to enjoy what was left of the afternoon . |
| 29 | Models enable complex relationships to be set up on the computer in numerical form rather than in the form of subjective statements . |
| 30 | Breeze , curled up on the hearthrug in her favourite attitude , watched her and wondered when , if ever , she would hear her play again . |