Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv prt] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 2 | But the chandelier declined to bear his weight and instead of swinging , he merely sat down heavily on the floor in a hail of diamonds and plaster . |
| 3 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 4 | He has the habit of lifting the bat again from the raised position , thus coming down late on the yorker-type delivery . |
| 5 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 6 | It 's also important to preserve original documents imposing restrictive covenants , granting or reserving easements , etc , since the terms of these are often not set out fully on the Register , and reference to them , and to the exact terms of a covenant , may be necessary at a later date . |
| 7 | See since Derek went up to work up there on the Rigs things have been Different . |
| 8 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 9 | France now came out openly on the American side and began actively to prepare a new invasion to take advantage of England 's difficulties overseas . |
| 10 | So , when on 8 May Acheson announced that the US would send economic and military aid to the French in Indo-China ( for Gaddis Smith , the turning point — ‘ the scales had swayed for three months and then came down hard on the side of France ) the French position was at least potentially desperate and one can not help asking whether there were any countries receiving military aid under the Mutual Defense Assistance Program , other than Vietnam , in which there were such powerful revolutionary forces and where a revolutionary war was already in progress . |
| 11 | She opened her mouth to speak , thought better of it , then slumped back angrily on the sofa and folded her arms across her chest . |
| 12 | Indeed , isolated tissues will sometimes spread out even on the meniscus of hanging drops of media . |