Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 2 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 3 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |
| 4 | Once Marion nearly stood on the doll baby , set carefully in a soft , sheltered hollow . |
| 5 | Willis and Tilda usually stopped on the way at a little shop in the Vauxhall Bridge Road , which seemed glad of any kind of custom , to buy a quarter of aniseed marbles . |
| 6 | Apart from Sir Humphrey , his sons Robert and Edward also sit on the main board . |
| 7 | In response to his instructions , the maid pulled up a chair for the little girl , and Artemis carefully sat on the edge of it , her legs still too short to reach the floor . |
| 8 | Two days , with a planetful of crooks looking for me … and Mala perhaps staying on the planet , with Gharr … |
| 9 | Roberts 's fifty included an over from Botham from which he hit twenty-four runs ( 462660 ) , a new Test record for a six-ball over , and Lloyd finally declared on the third morning at 426 for 9 . |
| 10 | Johnson and Boswell later bantered on the matter , each playfully accusing the other of being the one the woman feared — ‘ the wicked young fellow , the wild dog ’ or the ‘ terrible ruffian ’ fortunately accompanied by ‘ a civil decent young man ’ . |
| 11 | Thomas and Kassab recently reported on the substantial benefits of fluoridation for the dental health of women aged up to 32 years who had lived continuously on Anglesey and who were attending St David 's Maternity Hospital between July 1986 and July 1987 for their confinement . |
| 12 | His pal May and Atkins also deejayed on the show , playing an electric mix of house and European electronic music they 'd got into in high school when all the other kids were listening to the Gap Band and Prince . |
| 13 | At the Aug. 6 UN Security Council vote on the imposition of wide-ranging sanctions on Iraq [ see below ] , the Yemeni permanent representative abstained , and Yemen again abstained on the vote at the Arab League Cairo summit . |
| 14 | Elsewhere , the relationships are more difficult to define , usually because too little is known about the individual sites ; examples include the extensive industries of Brockley Hill and Mancetter-Hartshill , while Dorchester-on-Thames also lay on the fringes of the kiln area producing Oxford wares . |