Example sentences of "[noun] on [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trim away excess and place the base on to the cake drum . |
| 2 | Zigzagging our way down the street we saw a car coming towards us and thought some terrible error had allowed the driver on to the toboggan track . |
| 3 | When anything like this happened , every office-holder in the community made speeches passing the buck on to the police department . |
| 4 | That quick route on to the statute book was agreed after talks between Scottish Office ministers and Labour MPs . |
| 5 | Completion date will be February 1994 with a final addition made in the summer of that year to blister the stand on to the north stand . |
| 6 | The crew of the Mystic 60 Elysia included in their pre-race manoeuvres an attempt to catapult water bombs on to the warship committee boat . |
| 7 | In the US election , commentators are bemoaning the lack of international issues , but they are still markedly more present than here : President George Bush and Bill Clinton are arguing over how and when to help the former Soviet states , Clinton is proposing to allow Japan and Germany on to the Security Council of the UN , all candidates have a figure for American troop presence in Europe , ranging from Bush 's 150,000 to Jerry Brown 's 1,000 , with a European force of 1,000 stationed in the US . |
| 8 | In the early years of the republic these were factors of no great consequence , but they have assumed great importance since the movement of the United States on to the world stage in the twentieth century . |
| 9 | You can turn off very soon to the right , and climb up to make a wonderfully airy and spectacular circuit of the very open , grassy high ground , before hair pinning down the other side on to the Valcarlos road at Arnéguy . |
| 10 | I find the easiest way is not to attempt to free the yarn from the sinker plate completely , but to free it just enough to enable you to push the carriage on past the weaving yarn . |
| 11 | Stick the archway on to the toadstool stalk with a little royal icing . |
| 12 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |
| 13 | The program will then work down the list of pieces that have stitch patterns allocated to them and ask whether you want to superimpose the piece on to the stitch pattern . |
| 14 | He pulled open the rear door and tossed the package of books on to the back seat , together with his gear . |
| 15 | Grandfathers and coal-hewing cousins , brothers and the front row of Neath , Homeric schoolteachers and sopranos whose voices had a bell in every tooth made their entrance on to the Oxford stage , mixed in with chorus girls from Cardiff , waterfront villains from Liverpool and the twenty-two-carat glitz of the West End , where he had opened in The Druid 's Rest in January 1944 with fires in the sky at night , bombs falling from the Luftwaffe and pubs and clubs burning excitement under the blackout . |
| 16 | There is another example when er er safety bars be put outside the school entrance er cast iron ones so obviously that would stop any entrance on to the pavement school . |
| 17 | Emotions were running high as Lady Thatcher made her triumphal entrance on to the conference platform . |
| 18 | Curtis had dropped the Echo on to the dining-room table , where she was drinking her morning coffee , and he remained beside her . |
| 19 | To their great credit , Romania looked far from demoralised on the field , driving the Scots on to the back foot for much of the first half and restricting the scoreline to 3-0 until the 39th minute . |
| 20 | Nails climbed through the fence on to the railway line . |
| 21 | He waved at Lee to go away , but Lee climbed from the fence on to the garage roof , something Philip 's Dad had forbidden him to do . |
| 22 | The second side of the work can them be removed from the machine on to the garter bar . |
| 23 | So they jumped out of the window on to the fire escape — and kicked in an outside door to get back into the studio at Beacon Radio , Wolverhampton . |
| 24 | A rapid and simple technique for checking the mineralogy of placer sands is simply to sprinkle some sand on to the specimen tray glass or on a standard slide and evacuate it in the chamber ( Ryan & szabo , 1981 ) . |
| 25 | And course they were on hinges , the doors , on er the hinges on in the centre hole under the water and course you always knew where then to , where to fit what we used to call fish for th fish for the chain . |
| 26 | The Bill is largely uncontentious and we wish to facilitate its swift passage on to the statute book . |
| 27 | The bill to reform what was seen as an unjust system has made a speedy passage on to the statute book after cross-party agreement to support the move . |
| 28 | Before he got half way , they dropped with an almighty crash on to the stone floor . |
| 29 | The exit on to the Naas road was the most dangerous in Kildare . |
| 30 | Thérèse flew at the washing-up while Léonie clattered coffee and tisane on to the silver tray and took it through into the white salon . |