Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stands with his weight on the right foot , his face lightly turned in that direction . |
| 2 | ‘ Very well , very well , continue ! ’ snapped Araminta , quivering with temper , and shooting killing looks at her cousin on the other side of the table . |
| 3 | The fluxgate magnetometer , which depends for its action on the detection of saturation occurring in magnetic material , can be made both small and highly accurate . |
| 4 | It is then evident that the statement , " If f did n't occur , neither did s " , like its partner , depends for its truth on the fact that certain events did not occur . |
| 5 | Style often becomes as big a bugbear as colour schemes and for the same reason ; it means laying what passes for your taste on the table for all to judge . |
| 6 | ‘ Keith 's really mad keen to go , ’ Paul says from his cushion on the floor . |
| 7 | There is a clock on the cooker ; another on the video ; another on the dashboard of the car ; another built in to the pocket-calculator ; yet another on the end of the pen she uses ; another on the device that switches the boiler on and off ; yet another on the outside of the tall building Steven passes in his car on the flyover . |
| 8 | The importance of NO 2 in the Antarctic stratosphere stems from its influence on the partitioning of chlorine between the reactive form , ClO , and the less reactive form , chlorine nitrate , ClONO 2 ( see for example ref. 7 ) : |
| 9 | His hand rests near my leg on the seat . |
| 10 | A close look at their London haunts on our map on the right shows the two have little in common apart from their children . |
| 11 | Gonzalez then drives to his office on the third floor of a new building on the waterfront . |
| 12 | Jason Dozzell points to his landmark on the Portman Road home dressing room blackboard . |
| 13 | That is , I think , the task which the Home Secretary expects judges to perform when he asks for their advice on the requirements of retribution and deterrence , and the task which the judges do perform . |
| 14 | Over the cobbles he clatters and clangs in the dark inn-yard ; And he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred : He whistles a tune to the window , and who should be waiting there But the landlord 's black-eyed daughter , |
| 15 | Over the cobbles he clatters , and clangs in the darkened yard , and he taps with his whip on the shutters , but all is locked and barred . |
| 16 | But the best news is Venus alights in your sign on the 13th marking a four-week period when your personal and romantic life flourishes . |
| 17 | A passionate tale of love , hate , revenge and death , ‘ Blood Wedding ’ tells the story of a young bride who elopes with her lover on the morning of her marriage to her childhood sweetheart , and of the tragic consequences of their action . |
| 18 | It tells a dark and passionate story of love and hatred , as a young bride elopes with her lover on the morning of the day she was to be married to her childhood sweetheart . |
| 19 | The glissando begins on the second beat , reaches its upward limit on the third , returns to its starting-point on the fourth , and ends on the first beat of the next bar . |