Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we 're in the flat she says she 'll make some coffee , and I sit down on a chair with my carrier by my side . |
| 2 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 3 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 4 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 5 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 6 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 7 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 8 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 9 | And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are . |
| 10 | I lie down on the bench and try and make myself comfy . |
| 11 | What they had said really ‘ took seed ’ a few months later , when I set off on a world trip for seven months , and during that time the friend I was with , Ella , decided a few times , in different parts of the world , to lose some weight and tone up . |
| 12 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 13 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 14 | ‘ I always wear a helmet when I go out on a bike , but I think we might have to make helmets a fashion accessory to get more children to wear them . ’ |
| 15 | I know how busy they are when I come off the road off a night , and I know busy because they are before I go out on a morning , and erm , it seems like they 're never likely to get stuck from time to time though . |
| 16 | On a dinner time when I go out on a dinner time I leave it on . |
| 17 | I go out on a blitz and then tend to spend nothing for months . |
| 18 | For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do ! |
| 19 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 20 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 21 | I move in on a twenty-kilogram monster , all bark and paws . |
| 22 | Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone pull in on the fishing-line , ’ he ordered . |
| 24 | We drove up one of the steep hills which look down on the city and are encircled by walls and bastions ( built by the great sixteenth-century architect Michele Sanmichele ) to the house where I was going to live . |
| 25 | Dauntless shambled over to the edge of the stream and threw himself face down on the grass , cupping handfuls of water and throwing it over his head , gulping it greedily . |
| 26 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 27 | Sedum spectabile " Autumn Joy " has boldly fleshy shoots with butterfly — attracting pink flowers in late summer which dry off on the plant to orange/brown heads useful for winter decorations . |
| 28 | You can buy those things that you push down on the top like that , and you |
| 29 | Continue westwards to the village of Liverton following the B1366 south for ¼ mile when you branch off on a track on the right then go left to pass Lane Head Farm and Stubdale Farm . |
| 30 | Oh you oh you mean up on the board or |