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 | 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 . |
| 5 | I did this walk once on a bright June day with Pat and Bill the dog . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Sometimes , such defences can be almost impossible to break down on a person-to-person level . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all very fine sitting around on a sunny morning sounding confident . |
| 14 | I was behind a post last year and the Irish scored three tries right on the other side of it . ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Never looks good going out on a falling tide . |
| 20 | All went well on the long trip to the Jebel mountains and from there the intrepid raiding party set off for their target . |
| 21 | Chapter 5 focuses particularly on the thorny question of idealism . |
| 22 | Unfortunately you find that no-one has ever bothered to produce the graphics before because they take too long to print out on the current office printer ! |
| 23 | I wrote all I knew and all that people at Open Houses , Playgroup and Nursery knew , and it all fitted nicely on a double page . |
| 24 | Physical disability makes shopping difficult , and sometimes forces the elderly to rely entirely on the good but fairly limited range of foods that can be delivered to their door by the milkman . |
| 25 | Bereft of the supernatural assistance previously offered by the Catholic priest and unwilling to rely solely on the petitionary prayers favoured by Protestants , they resorted to time-honoured magical charms and remedies to cure sickness , improve the weather , or ward off evil spirits . |
| 26 | However , with regard to the follow-up of arrests , one of the research team was able to sit in on a Juvenile Case Referral Panel , which recommended whether juveniles should be cautioned , and another member made observations in the magistrates ' courts . |
| 27 | In educational contexts , it is important to concentrate particularly on the actual equality of the language spoken by individuals in school . |
| 28 | He now travelled in disguise from St Malo on 18 December 1715 , to Dunkirk , from where , after a six-week wait , he was at last able to set off on a small eight-gun 200-tonner , for Scotland . |
| 29 | A fourth squeaked through on a single disputed vote . |
| 30 | They eventually approached Berwick from the north-west , rounding the skirts of Halidon Hill , and from there able to look down on the grey town at the wide mouth of Tweed , two miles off . |