Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 2 | A split-half reliability carried out on the data from children in the standardisation sample between the ages of 4 years and 8 years 11 months produced correlations of between 0.64 and 0.84 for the different items . |
| 3 | Even a computer-literate user brought up on a different type of mainframe may find the nested screens in CMS and the XEDIT editor offputting at first . |
| 4 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |
| 5 | Russell turned to Dexter with a look of surprise and irritation , as if he were a complete stranger butting in on a private conversation — which indeed was just how the sergeant felt . |
| 6 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 7 | I had some notes jotted down on a card somewhere , but I quickly went off them and chatted about whatever seemed interesting . |
| 8 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 9 | In the near-total darkness Dong could not see the old coolie stretched out on the muddy floor beside them . |
| 10 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 11 | When the band split up in 1985 Sting started out on a solo career which has seen hits like Spread A Little Happiness and If You Love Somebody , but he has yet to get near the success , in the singles chart at least , of one of the biggest-selling pop groups in history . |
| 12 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 13 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 14 | This chapter picks up on the development of the FAOR methodology , examining the concluding phase where all the main components , including the SSM , were tested in the field as a final trial of the package as a whole . |
| 15 | Moore 's the guilty player Jochim had got away from him and unless the referee decides that there was another defender coming round on the cover there Moores could be in big trouble . |
| 16 | P.U.M.P. : ‘ Barabajagal ( Love Is Hot ) ’ ( Ultimate ) out of the ashes of the Junior Manson Slags arrives Aqua Marina , with her Purple Under Melted Pink getting down on the dancefloor with a hot and sultry Donovan song . |
| 17 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 18 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | And the RUC is urging for public help to clamp down on the level of incidents throughout the province . |
| 21 | I 've heard similar things about ‘ Talk To Your Daughter ’ , where the original demos of some tracks ended up on the final recording . |
| 22 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 23 | ‘ A good brisk walk is equivalent to a jog any time ’ ) ; that when a lightly built eight-stone person runs around on a hard surface , his/her knees suffer a momentary weight equivalent to three-quarters of a ton with each step he/she takes ; that dieting and exercises together can cause hormonal imbalances , infertility and period loss in women ; that the death rate of stressed , worried , prejudiced-against-smoking non-smokers can be three times as high as that of relaxed smokers . |
| 24 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 25 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
| 26 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 27 | HEALTH fears over raw sewage washing up on a Fife beach have resulted in one local authority forcing another to clean up the pollution . |
| 28 | As they walked away Scarlet observed another woman bearing down on the many-coated one with the air of a person about to commit good works . |
| 29 | It was rather pathetic , like an ageing colonel looking back on the days of Empire . |
| 30 | Gannon was an odd choice although few people picked up on the seemingly obvious fact that he was a rhythm guitarist and not a bass player . |