Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er in , within that as you know you can actually er go for er the higher income if he wanted to he could push the income up on the hundred thousand say , we could make the income round about seven percent if we wanted to do . |
| 2 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 3 | I have waited a long time to catch The Economist out on an egregious factual error . |
| 4 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 5 | While the circuit is being cleared to give us a free run , Brundle takes the car out on the public roads . |
| 6 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 7 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 8 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 9 | He set the basket down on the low table by the oven , then turned back , looking at the boy . |
| 10 | Jimmy had laid the girl down on the rough floor . |
| 11 | The café-cum-shop up on the ravishing Col du Soul or in particular has been a wondrous mess on my two ascents there : very dark , immensely cluttered , low ceilinged and lit as much as warmed by a large log fire . |
| 12 | Quiss walked over to a large range of working surfaces , hotplates , sinks and racks ; he sat the scullion down on a flat surface only for steam to issue suddenly from its rear ; it squawked and jumped up . |
| 13 | I put the sheet back in the folder and the folder back on the other rear seat . |
| 14 | Turn lining to the wrong side by folding the valance up on the creased hemline , re-folding the mitres so that 2.5cm ( 1in ) of valance fabric shows below the lining , and the top edges are level . |
| 15 | Now he sat out on the porch with his chair tilted back and his feet up on the rail , and he sipped at his beer as he watched the patterns of sunlight on the forest over on the far side of the track . |
| 16 | They embarked again on 16 June and saw the war out on the Western Front . |
| 17 | ‘ It is important to get the team back on the right track as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Valerie shuddered and set the coffee-pot down on the white wrought-iron table . |
| 19 | did he ever explain to you what the urgency of having to have the article in on the following Saturday was ? , did he ev , did he ever tell you anything ? |
| 20 | Victory also brought the curtain down on a barren spell for Hendry , whose last success in Britain came in the Matchroom League 8 months ago . |
| 21 | I put the phone down on the greedy little tyke . |
| 22 | He picked the ball up on the halfway line and strode to the edge of the area , where a mix-up between Richard Hall and Ken Monkou allowed him to run on and beat Tim Flowers . |
| 23 | By the time you get all the crew up on the windward rail , which would be in true wind of 10 – 12 knots , you should be flattening the bottom of the main and opening up the leech . |
| 24 | How much is the mark up on the whole box ? |
| 25 | Here , the community deputy has turned the argument around on the other deputy by suggesting he does not understand the issues that are central to bringing school and community together in one institution . |
| 26 | The BAA now says that new British legislation is vital to put the code back on the right side of the law . |
| 27 | I looked at myself in the mirror on the dressing-table over on the other side of the room . |
| 28 | Who does the checking out on the central people who we may place contracts with ? |
| 29 | The journey back on the four mile journey took 24 minutes against 27 for the outward one , the brakesmen on both bogie trailer cars helping to control the descent . |
| 30 | That was the unspoken alternative ( or at least unspoken by all except the red crow , who cheerily brought the subject up on every third or fourth visit ) , that was the easy way out . |