Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun] " 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 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
| 11 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 14 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 19 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 20 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 21 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 22 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ‘ Why I want to warn every mum-to-be ’ Leslie Ash speaks out on a hidden danger |