Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 2 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 3 | We 're told it 's a very close thing , the decision not to participate erm and there were certain technical and theoretical reasons , I think , that led them to come down on the side of not . |
| 4 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 5 | The harness really does take the pain out of windsurfing and allows you to stay out on the water far longer . |
| 6 | And the only thing I need to ask you about is that bloody great , bloody great memo , I 've said it so I 'll say it again it 's pinned up in my old tutor 's room what do you want me to put down on the document for the record of achievement on attendance ? |
| 7 | If you 're unlucky , you will be the only one to end up on the ground . |
| 8 | How parents can spend all that money for them to run down on the chest paddling with their hands on the dirty pavement ! |
| 9 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 10 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 11 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 12 | He collected his boarding card and found a seat in the cafeteria that allowed him to look down on the concourse . |
| 13 | We 'll have to encourage him to put in on the table . |
| 14 | It might be a potential signing for the groundsman — if he can spit half as well as his dad then we just get him to run around on the pitch for 20 mins … no need for sprinklers etc . |
| 15 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 16 | Margrida 's absence would enable her to tell him that she wished him to cut down on the pretending — and on his caresses . |
| 17 | They had actually chosen themselves to come in on the study and so they were obviously schools which were particularly interested in involving parents as much as they could , and erm they would all certainly have done as , probably as much as most schools in the country are doing as , as far as involving parents are concerned , both in having parent helpers in the classrooms , and in having organisations for parents and social events for parents of the , of the fundraising type . |
| 18 | Recent storms have obviously set them loose , causing them to wash up on the shoreline . |