Example sentences of "[adv] [adv prt] on the [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Not just round on the floor you know will you please ?
2 Once down on the road they headed for Bagoush , which ironically was the airfield from which they had taken off for their first disastrous operation the previous year .
3 ‘ He was last year about now but Easter 's late , I had n't thought on , and he 'll not move down until Palm Sunday like as not , and if he 's still over on the mountain he 'll be up Three Valleys Pass and that 's an hour and a half of a walk for him , going as the crow flies , but longer for us in the jeep because there 's no direct road — and then to get at him we 'd have to take a cart track that 'll be more like a river bed after yesterday 's rain .
4 Far off on the horizon I could make out tiny figures : galloping beasts , scurrying men ; and faint sounds came down to me of barking dogs , irritated bellowings and shrill cries of " Haow , haow ! "
5 Lower down on the note he had written ‘ Husband is a bully .
6 and , cos I said to the dealers for a long time you know do n't put them under stairs , do n't put them in store rooms , they get locked , locked up with vacuum cleaners and you ca n't get to the gear when you go to them , do n't put them high up on the wall we ca n't reach them and they just laugh , but er , I think the last laugh 's on us now cos er if I see one high up on the wall , I say well that , I say we 're not accepting that , you have to move it
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