Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pete lifted his knight but changed his mind and put it back on the board . |
| 2 | Also the dyslexic child is not necessarily unintelligent because he ca n't write something which you 've just written on the blackboard or which has only just been shown to him in some other way ; the dyslexic person ca n't look up at a blackboard , hold the visual symbols in her mind and get them down on paper in a different position . |
| 3 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 4 | Thirdly , and most important of all in the genesis of Doctor Who , are the people who inspired it — the few who drew the notion of Doctor Who from the seeds of human inventiveness and put them down on paper . |
| 5 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 6 | Then suddenly closing his eyes and clenching his fist and bringing it down on the counter , he said , ‘ Whatever you want to do , for God 's sake ! |
| 7 | Taczek hoisted his fist and smacked it down on the table with a hollow bang . |
| 8 | When it had been cut and bound into sheaves , Kalchu carried it back to the village and laid it out on racks inside the house until it was dry enough to thresh . |
| 9 | Let the wind do the work and pull you up on the board . |
| 10 | Because you keep it all inside it against you , you begin to feel bad about yourself you begin to lose your self esteem erm you know and that 's the most dangerous thing about being bullied in terms of being at school or whether it 's even at work and being submissive is withdraw internalise and to take it out on yourself . |
| 11 | He carried her across the corridor and put her down on the bed . |
| 12 | He drew in a deep breath , paused for a second and let it out on a sigh . |
| 13 | She gave an irritated sigh and flung herself back on the pillows , staring straight up at the ceiling . |
| 14 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 15 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 16 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 17 | I 'm going to unravel the little prick 's knickers , and I 'm going to expose its little rubber bladder , or whatever it is those obnoxious bloody choirboys filled with joke-shop blood , then I 'm going to fill it up with piss and hang it back on that music stand . |
| 18 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 19 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 20 | Nick said , and Frederick roared with laughter and swung him up on his shoulder and ran with him along the railway line as if he weighed nothing . |
| 21 | What if he had n't left yet — she could ring him and tell him she 'd chickened out , and he could flap his wings and tease her but at least she would n't have to — oh , hell , here he is , she thought , and watched as the huge bike rolled to a halt and he switched off the engine and hauled it up on the stand . |
| 22 | As his eyes fell on the crucifix he realized that he 'd always loathed it , and in a small gesture of defiance he lifted it off its hook and set it down on top of the filing cabinet . |
| 23 | We do n't just brand the cheapest tubes available , bubble pack them in pairs and hang them up on a dealer 's wall . |
| 24 | After spending considerable effort getting the boiler back into working order it was important to give it a steam test , obtain an insurance certificate and get it back on the chassis so that it could be used to haul trains . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you going to stop sitting there like some goddammed statue and fill me in on what 's going on in your head ? ’ |
| 26 | And he looks a lot better for the change , although I have to tell you that by the time I had grilled him for an hour and tested him out on the snooker table I did notice that he reached for a cigarette . |
| 27 | Then he bundled her now rosy body into her dry shirt and sat her down on the sleeping-bag to vigorously rub her hair dry . |
| 28 | She cleans up the Black Prince and puts him back on his table . |
| 29 | She scuffed through the gap in the chalk circle and threw herself down on the sacks . |
| 30 | Erm , what of course people like Mr Portillo do , is , sell other people 's houses , pay off the mortgage and throw them out on the street . |