Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 2 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 3 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 4 | The musky male scent of his cologne teased her nostrils , and she was ashamed at the way her knees were trembling as he led her over to sit down on the wide , comfortable couch . |
| 5 | The answer is not to fall back on the offensive utilisation of a harmless birthday , but to write into constitutions strict regulations about terms of appointment . |
| 6 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 7 | I have just sat down on the wet grass when everyone around me starts to move swiftly in the direction of the wooded area just visible through the mist and gloom . |
| 8 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've just got off on the wrong foot with Harcourt . |
| 10 | Choosing the right sparkling wine can be a bit of a minefield , especially if you 're not clued up on the different brands available . |
| 11 | The consequence was that intransigent positions were soon staked out on the correct modes of biblical interpretation . |
| 12 | I think I am just starting out on the steep , rocky — and lots of other corny metaphors — road to recovery . |
| 13 | The towns were generally laid out on the northern side of the tracks . |
| 14 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 15 | I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays |
| 16 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 17 | But there was no reason why she should not stretch out on the forward superstructure and get in a little sunbathing . |
| 18 | I can soon pick up on the current contacts , get a good team together . ’ |
| 19 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 20 | Er , in a number of ways I think everybody will agree that it 's been improved by er the er demolition of the terrace blocks , rather than refurbishment and the opportunity has been taken to create erm perhaps a a more comfortable relationship between bungalows that are about to be refurbished and the new houses , because the new houses are designed in such a way as to keep the scale down so whereas the terraced blocks were anything up to four storey , the new houses will only be two storey and in a number of cases they will they will be a relatively low two storey so that erm I will just point out on the front elevations that the roof comes down fairly low relative to the first floor windows so that it 's not too much above the , the roofs on the bungalows , we 're not talking about compromising people 's heads on the internal though ! |
| 21 | He appeared to allay this concern during the present hearings by admitting to mistakes , specifically not following up on the vague information available to him that there might have been a covert operation and unquestioningly accepting the repeated reassurances of his superior , the then CIA director William J. Casey , that government officials were not involved in illicit activities . |
| 22 | If the quality of bottom-up information was good , the algorithm could quickly home in on the correct sequence of words . |
| 23 | Saturday 's 2-1 win was Sunderland 's third in succession and Crosby said : ‘ We can still come up on the blind side . |
| 24 | But after having been short headed by On The Other Hand in the Punchestown Festival Handicap in April of that year , The Committee developed a ‘ leg ’ after having been struck into . |
| 25 | INDIAN wonder boy Sachin Tendulkar wrote his name into the Yorkshire record books with a 69-ball century at Headingley yesterday — but still ended up on the losing side . |
| 26 | United chopped and changed their team to face Leicester , but they still ended up on the wrong end of a 2-1 scoreline . |
| 27 | Further work was also carried out on the International City Project , a long-term perspective for the development of Glasgow which has attracted interest from the highest levels in Government . |
| 28 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 29 | ( At the same time , though its existence was naturally concealed from the rank-and-file , a ‘ Line of Panic ’ was also drawn up on the inner circle of forts , Belleville , Souville , Tavannes and Moulainville . |
| 30 | It was enabled to continue in office until May 1979 and in the recriminations of defeat the Conservative Party polarised into the Thatcher and Heath factions , the implications of which are still only partly worked out on the political scene . |