Example sentences of "[adv] on the [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 2 | She sat down on the heavily bolstered arm of a brocade chair opposite her hostess . |
| 3 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 4 | Certainly , circulating in the world of the 1670s , the poem can be seen as important to groups of Protestant dissenters , offering them a visionary politics founded both on the scripturally based structure of history they favoured but also by appropriating and re-employing the scriptural Word which was a familiar practice of their own revolutionary writing . |
| 5 | Police estimated no more than 30,000 party supporters turned out on the heavily barricaded streets , eager to be arrested by the 75,000-strong security forces . |
| 6 | By launching the new forum Mr Heseltine is getting his own back on the now weakened Mr Lamont . |
| 7 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 8 | Spatz bowed , then returned behind his desk , opening the first of the files , running his finger over the apparently blank page , the warmth of his touch bringing the characters alive briefly on the specially treated paper . |
| 9 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 10 | It appends that promise to a clear and comprehensive code of conduct ( one that builds helpfully on the recently published Fleet Street set of principles ) . |
| 11 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |