Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [adv] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 2 | ‘ We 're vacuuming up the debris on the land and mulching it again , ’ Hawtree explains . |
| 3 | so she would n't have that worry and that means of course she would n't be paying out the premium on the endowment policy |
| 4 | After listening to Mr Lightman 's allegations , Lord Donaldson said that if Mr Oliver 's affidavit was to be believed then The Mail on Sunday had acted in ‘ a wholly hypocritical way . ’ |
| 5 | Team 1 is concentrating on the basement and ground floor , so I want you to go up to the 4th level as team 2 will be putting out the flames on floors 2 + 3 . |
| 6 | You may not be putting together the salad on your plate or cooking your main course in the kitchen , but you do have a certain control over what goes onto your plate . |
| 7 | The B debt would have interest rolled up , and would be repaid once the principal on the A debt was repaid . |
| 8 | Many of the biggest companies are refusing to take on new clients with such cars , and are jacking up the premiums on existing business . |
| 9 | No , your eyes do n't deceive you — yes , they are floating down the Seine on a double bed ! |
| 10 | He remembered a Chinese fable Ellen had once told him about a man who falls off a cliff , saves himself by clutching at a plant , and then notices that two mice are gnawing away the branch on which his life depends . |
| 11 | On 7 October there began the debate on the revised version of the document on the missionary activity of the Church , and on 11 October votes were taken on the schemas on religious life and priestly formation in the seminaries . |
| 12 | Discuss how your analysis would have been altered if you were carrying out the analysis on behalf of a prospective shareholder . |
| 13 | The bronze Moors were hammering out the hours on the clock in the Piazza San Marco . |
| 14 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 15 | Northamptonshire County Council is bringing in the ban on nearly four thousand acres of farmland where fox hunting could take place . |
| 16 | You 're in a position of strength as a potential client who is checking out the service on offer . |
| 17 | BARLASTON chef Mark Williamson is turning up the heat on his marathon training programme . |
| 18 | And now actress Sharon Stone is pulling back the sheets on her sexploits during the filming of the raunchy movies that have made her famous . |
| 19 | Then say to the audience ‘ What I would like you to do as soon as I leave the room is to turn over the card on the top of this pile and look at it . ’ |
| 20 | Those whose task it is to lay down the law on matters of ethics and morality need to ensure that their views are based on a wide knowledge of human institutions and their history . |
| 21 | He said one of their main hopes was to tighten up the law on fire precautions in flats . |
| 22 | ‘ All what moving about the country ? ’ asked Cliff , largely to avert further discussion of sprouts and red cabbage , which he could see was imminent from the suspicious manner in which his mother was turning over the vegetables on her heaped plate . |
| 23 | We could n't sense that , a few hundred feet above us up the ridge , David Simpson 's and Jane Lapiner 's house had shaken apart , that rocks had thundered down the cliff face opposite my house , that a mile to the north at the precise moment that we were walking through Jim 's house and I was spreading out the blueprints on the hood of my car to continue our conversation , an overturned electric coffee pot in the Petrolia store had already started a blaze that would finish off the store and our adjoining post office in about 45 minutes . |
| 24 | She had a computer actually on the it was on the side of a surveying instrument , so she was probably working out how far down she 'd actually dug by looking through the sights and reading the numbers and then she was entering up the numbers on the computer . |
| 25 | Barnes added : ‘ Being on the same pitch as that other bloke Barnes would be a dream because only two years ago I was putting up the nets on Sunday mornings for my hospital team . ’ |
| 26 | On July 12 , he named as Matthei 's successor Gen. Ramón Vega , who was to take up the post on July 31 . |