Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv prt] on a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 2 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 3 | Preparing the campsite also involved some ingenious engineering , with a large pivoted chockstone winched up on a Friend belay to create enough headroom . |
| 4 | The words came out on a sneer . |
| 5 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |
| 6 | Now in his eightieth year , Thesiger looked back on a life travelling in the Sudan , Arabia , Afghanistan , Morocco , East Africa and ‘ Eth … |
| 7 | It was the highest total and the biggest increase since March 1991 , when shoppers went out on a spending spree to beat the rise in value-added tax rates . |
| 8 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 9 | Dr Courtney sat down on a sofa . |
| 10 | The agreement , like those that had preceded it , envisaged a directly elected presidency , and a bicameral legislature made up on a republican and a population basis , respectively ; central authority would be limited to those spheres of activity that had been specifically delegated by the members of the union . |
| 11 | A small crowd gathered on the pitch to commemorate April 1963 , when the Beatles passed through on a train to somewhere else . |
| 12 | Much less embarrassing than a kissogram the perfect fantasy served up on a plate . |
| 13 | Alternatively , dispense 10 double drops of fixative on a wax plate ( dental wax , or a sheet of parafilm stuck down on a glass surface ) , and float each grid on the surface of a drop ( 1 grid per drop — use each drop once only ) . |
| 14 | One such occasion was Labor Day 1949 , when my parents went off on a holiday barbecue or picnic and deposited the three oldest toys — David [ eight ] , Johnny [ six ] and Alvin [ four ] — with a teenage black babysitter named Earl at the Ritz to see Li'l Abner [ the early black and white version , with Buster Keaton in a small part ] and I Married a Witch . |
| 15 | It was his grandmother he spent his fifth birthday with and that same year his parents went off on a tour of the Commonwealth , which took them away from him for six long months . |
| 16 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 17 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 18 | An opportunity for escape occurred shortly afterwards when she and Wordsworth set off on a walking tour into the Wye Valley . |
| 19 | The second cell ( 82c ) contains a moaning , naked Orc chained down on a bed of nails which rip the boil-infested flesh on his back . |
| 20 | In the winter of 1979–80 the Trannon careered off on a course of its own . |
| 21 | MAY 1993 During the Khmelnitski exchange visit to Hunterston great interest was shown in TOP and the Director and Deputy Director of Khmelnitski NPP sat in on a team meeting to see it in action . |
| 22 | Elsewhere in the country , there are groups of farm buildings laid out on a courtyard plan that can undergo a complete change of use with virtually no visible alterations to the external appearance . |
| 23 | Morris laid out on a table spotted with spilt coffee , invitations from Peter Stothard , Andrew Neil , Granada Television and TV-AM . |
| 24 | With a great qualm mining at him inwardly , Cameron got up on a tree stump and said his piece . |
| 25 | Meryl Sank down on a window-seat and listened ; already the house was uncannily quiet . |
| 26 | Peripheral groups may be made up of employees or of workers bought in on a sub-contract basis . |
| 27 | The Zeltweg race was , after all , on Niki 's home territory , and when Prost spun off on a patch of oil , the race took on a new perspective for Niki : he found himself in the lead , with Piquet behind him and no threat with badly worn tyres . |
| 28 | Burun sat down on a pile of cushions on the floor , and settled himself to wait . |
| 29 | Burun sat down on a bench which was decorated with gold filigree . |
| 30 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |