Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 2 | This centred originally on the right-wing Nation Party and the sentiment has persisted , with clashes between rival fundamentalist groups common before the 1980 military coup . |
| 3 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 4 | Oh it took some sorting out on the next morning . |
| 5 | As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three . |
| 6 | Unfortunately this fell out on the third ascent . |
| 7 | I did this walk once on a bright June day with Pat and Bill the dog . |
| 8 | The combined effect of federal , state and local taxes in the United States in 1985 fell heavily on the poorest . |
| 9 | The Col du Somport and the upper valley of the Aspe are at the western end of the Pyrenean National Park — to be exact , a narrow tongue of this extends across on the other , western side of the valley into the ring of mountains forming the Cirque of Lescun . |
| 10 | One feature I was sad to see here on a recent visit was a fish hatchery installed in the bay , a sight now common in the western lochs and doubtless contributing to the local economy ; sad because I feel that all living creatures should have freedom of movement and not be bred and confined in restricted space for the table . |
| 11 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 12 | However , Jacques Etienne never forgot his Hebridean origins and in 1826 set off on the long , difficult journey to his father 's home at Howbeg . |
| 13 | Already there was a small queue of young people at the café door , for this was Saturday night and the boys had put on their one-hundred-and-thirty-rouble English wool suits and the girls had fifty-rouble pointed shoes wrapped in a parcel , for they were far too valuable to wear out on the icy streets . |
| 14 | But take away the healthy assurance which grows from personal conviction and every pressure is likely to bear down on the weakened commitment and raise tremors of uncertainty which grow into doubt . |
| 15 | He shows that the labour supply response has no effect on the steady-state wage and interest rate ( with constant returns these depend not on the absolute size of the labour force but only on its rate of growth ) . |
| 16 | On present form , future generations are likely to look back on the 1992 election — with its emphasis on marginal tax rates — as at best rather quaint , or at worst a tragic irrelevance . |
| 17 | On the other hand they indicated that former President Giscard d'Estaing ( UDF ) was likely to do better on the second ballot by taking centrist votes , with the result that , in late 1990 , the UDF seemed less concerned to reach an agreement . |
| 18 | Other acts quick to cash in on the latest sensation showed equally becoming maidens shedding their clothes prior to bathing , being examined by a doctor , or sun bathing . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's all very fine sitting around on a sunny morning sounding confident . |
| 20 | I was behind a post last year and the Irish scored three tries right on the other side of it . ’ |
| 21 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 22 | Meanwhile , fashion pundits were speculating last night that although Anne is likely to splash out on a new outfit , she will be wearing an old hat when she walks up the aisle . |
| 23 | It was n't until she was put back on a different oral antibiotic — these work directly on the inflamed cells in the spots — that she started to notice a change . |
| 24 | I could n't imagine what she expected to tell them if they all came back on the same day . |
| 25 | There 's some in Nottingham , in one of the mus museum , that has the Nottingham coat of arms , I think it has the council house and various things , and it 's all done mechanically on a huge machine that er is a repetition in each bay It 's probably thirty , forty foot long , but in each bay of about seven foot it 's separate curtain . |
| 26 | Never looks good going out on a falling tide . |
| 27 | Would you all go home on the same day ? |
| 28 | All went well on the long trip to the Jebel mountains and from there the intrepid raiding party set off for their target . |
| 29 | We all took off on the last hundred yards ' dash and I was mildly surprised to find that the first man past the post was myself — and I was n't really out of breath . |
| 30 | Chapter 5 focuses particularly on the thorny question of idealism . |