Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] on the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 2 | On her ice cream round she lost her temper , bringing down on the head of the ringleader the entire tray of ice cream . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 6 | He raises it over his head and brings it crashing down on the back of the man 's head ; once , twice , three times . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | With a small sigh that sounded distinctly apologetic , she sank down on the edge of the armchair opposite him . |
| 15 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 16 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 17 | They moved down on the Tuesday of tournament week , two days before the first rounds were due to be played . |
| 18 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 19 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 20 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 21 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 22 | And we always home in on the cost of a full page . |
| 23 | The eclipses of December 9 , 1992 , and those on May 21 , June 4 and November 29 in 1993 all home in on the area of profession and your personal hopes and dreams . |
| 24 | The sharp sound of Sister Mary 's hand banging down on the square of writing paper stopped the chanting . |
| 25 | These horses are part-Arab , part-Basque and part-English , the English blood having been mixed in on the orders of Napoleon 1 , while the Arab strain has been traced , perhaps fancifully , to the horses left behind by the Saracens , who were badly defeated near here in the eighth century . |
| 26 | The sun beat down on the discomfort of the watchers , wondering if they were meant to clap or what . |
| 27 | It was pointed out in Dann v Hamilton that the defence could apply in cases where : " the drunkenness of the driver at the material time is so extreme and so glaring that to accept a lift from him is like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation , intermeddling with an unexploded bomb or walking along on the edge of an unfenced cliff " . |
| 28 | The Late Show , challenged by David Hare to decide whether Keats was more important than Dylan , now seems inclined to come down on the side of Keats . |
| 29 | Pancevski himself appeared to come down on the side of the Serbian position by stressing repeatedly that political pluralism " must be based on socialist orientation and the federal structure " and asserting : " The LCY finds unacceptable the thesis according to which the essence and form of political pluralism are reduced to a classic multiparty system alone . " |
| 30 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |