Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 2 | This can be steep , making progress forward difficult — you have to hold one wheel and push hard on the other just to stop yourself from rolling down it . |
| 3 | His plastic sandals are swept out onto the waves and float jauntily on the surface of the pool . |
| 4 | It slides crisply into the mouth and settles snugly on the thigh section of the ski pants . |
| 5 | Anna Wulf , Doris Lessing 's narrator in The Golden Notebook ( 1962 ) , highlights and demonstrates the problems of writing , dividing the transcription of her experience into various notebooks and commenting frequently on the nature and validity of each . |
| 6 | Mandarin , head down and drained of all energy , was all out , and it still seemed that his heroic effort might come to nothing , for the French horse Lumino was gaining with every stride and closing inexorably on the leader . |
| 7 | He pressed his arms to his side and leaned forward on a diagonal without falling over . |
| 8 | Ever since we first played together for London Schools and roomed together on a tour to East Africa we have been very close . |
| 9 | Jules took a piece of pandoli and chewed contentedly on the long biscuit . |
| 10 | Cleo mounted the steps and pulled smartly on the bell . |
| 11 | In response , it is not difficult to produce examples from the practice of science that illustrate the same point , namely , that what observers see , the subjective experiences that they undergo , when viewing an object or scene is not determined solely by the images on their retinas but depends also on the experience , knowledge , expectations and general inner state of the observer . |
| 12 | Many small farmers , of course , did not hire any outside labour but relied entirely on the combined efforts of each member of their family . |
| 13 | They like to be able to go to a show and to be able to see something that they do n't see in their everyday lives — you know , catching the bus to go work or coming home on the bus . |
| 14 | Many wild and evil creatures are spawned in the mountains or drawn there on the winds of magic . |
| 15 | They trust you to get into a panic and err wildly on the side of generosity . ’ |
| 16 | The date and place of his birth , and the early years of his Bohemian adult life , remain obscure , although it is known that he worked as an actor in England and travelled widely on the Continent . |
| 17 | This is covered with real slates and opens upwards on the north side to show the storage space for the top of the Otis lift mechanism , and the rest of the now disused water system . |
| 18 | ‘ S'right , ’ nodded the Chairmaster , struggling to his feet and leaning heavily on the candidate . |
| 19 | So he can not cast off the argument from error and rely entirely on the conditional theory to show that K aq is here false . |
| 20 | He ached with the fear that God was moving through the woods , coming nearer and nearer to him , a figure with a face he could not imagine , a shining shape , brushing past the respectful fern and pressing gently on the fallen twigs . |
| 21 | He accused the West of ignoring the plight of the Asian refugees and concentrating instead on the Western nationals held in Kuwait and in hotels in Baghdad . |
| 22 | This was to avoid the difficult and genuinely contentious question and to focus instead on a secondary matter . |
| 23 | They took the same tube into work but walked apart on the final stretch to the office in case anyone saw them together and jumped to the right conclusion . |
| 24 | but if the elderly pensioner does n't read all the solicitor 's correspondence or the solicitor does n't communicate every fact of the correspondence but relies solely on the brochure they 're carrying in their pocket or their handbag the brochure taken in isolation might mislead might it not ? |
| 25 | If he was to become the Asian Superman of Nietzsche 's teachings , he must cast aside all thought of pleasure and sensual gratification and concentrate only on the task before him ! |
| 26 | ‘ Inclusion in the squads boosts players on an individual level and reflects well on the kind of season they have had up until now . |
| 27 | ‘ I go down to the swing park and swing slowly on a swing . ’ |
| 28 | The cat yawned and stretched and its teeth and claws flashed , then it turned its back on Millet and settled again on the lap of Michael Holly 's mother . |
| 29 | Another hand snaked up the chest and pinched tight on a nipple . |
| 30 | This is a growing burden , given the government 's devolution of geriatric and mental care on to the ‘ community ’ while actually failing to provide support and relying instead on the voluntary services of women in the family . |