Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
2 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
3 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
4 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
5 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
6 | Appropriately enough , we met in the Hominid Room of the Natural History museum , a light spacious rectangular chamber with a glass wall on one side that looks out on a grassy park . |
7 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
8 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
9 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
10 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
11 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
12 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
13 | A thunderous , psychedelicious affair , ‘ The Storm ’ floats along on the ghostly groove , touching on early '80 's electro pop , a late-'80s dance feel and even the danker ends of the late-'60s trip , while the B-side offers a spruced-up version of The Rolling Stones ' ‘ She 's A Rainbow ’ . |
14 | A thunderous , psychedelicious affair , ‘ The Storm ’ floats along on the ghostly groove , touching on early '80 's electro pop , a late-'80s dance feel and even the danker ends of the late-'60s trip , while the B-side offers a spruced-up version of The Rolling Stones ' ‘ She 's A Rainbow ’ . |
15 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
16 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
17 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
18 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
19 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
20 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
21 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
22 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
23 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
24 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
25 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
26 | Statement B seems to admit the greatest amount of contingency into the determination of outcomes , but nevertheless still falls back on a tendential law to explain how racism is reproduced . |
27 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |
28 | ‘ Why I want to warn every mum-to-be ’ Leslie Ash speaks out on a hidden danger |
29 | ‘ Stockholm ’ ( current single , and , they tell me , the immediate pop antidote to ‘ It 's Not What You Know ’ 's wilful obscurity ) saunters in on a charming guitar line from the imposing Dolan ; ‘ Beatlemania ’ and ‘ I Lead On ’ allow Andy 's vocals to take centre stage . |
30 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |