Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Here we are , ’ announced the Brigadier , emerging suddenly from his world of private woes and turning right on to a grassy track running between two olive groves . |
| 2 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 3 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 4 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 5 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 6 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 7 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 8 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 9 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 10 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 11 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 12 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 13 | She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass . |
| 14 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 15 | Move down on to the second page then . |
| 16 | She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep . |
| 17 | One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra . |
| 18 | On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future . |
| 19 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 20 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 21 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 22 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 23 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 24 | He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof . |
| 25 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 26 | The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner . |
| 27 | We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway . |
| 28 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
| 29 | We want to turn state companies into shareholding companies by moving perhaps on to an Italian model of state participation in industry , so we can create a situation where companies would be owned by a combination of the state , private shareholders and foreign investors . |
| 30 | Despite the striving for the autonomy or consumption activities , resulting in an exaggerated separation from business interests , in some respects Bourdieu 's major source of analogy tends to fall back , not on to an economic , but perhaps on to an economistic model . |