Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [noun sg] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 2 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 3 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 4 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 5 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 6 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 7 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 8 | I laughed at myself , felt better , and settled down on the window-seat in the sun to enjoy what was left of the afternoon . |
| 9 | Times certainly are changing down on the farm in the TV soap Emmerdale 's new calendar . |
| 10 | Through my binoculars-camera the colours down on the track in the chilly sunshine looked sharp and bright , the race easy on that account to read . |
| 11 | I flung myself down on the grass in the sunshine and stared up at the blue . |
| 12 | One day Glumdalclitch put me down on the grass in the palace garden , while she went for a walk with some of the Queen 's ladies . |
| 13 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 14 | She put his tea down on the table in the lounge , sought out the Scotch and set it beside the cup . |
| 15 | She put it down on the table in the hall and went upstairs smiling . |
| 16 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 17 | My father put up on the sofa in the big living-room next to my bedroom , which I had claimed as my study . |
| 18 | Alluvial gold , which most commonly occurs as dust or fine flakes , the residue left behind when lighter materials have been removed by the flow of natural waters , can be won by simple sluicing or washing , or even picked up on the surface in the form of nuggets shaped by the compression of fine particles into compact masses by natural forces . |
| 19 | Richard put over , put a lot of beams and Paul at the weekend put an immense amount of his household gear up on the roof in the garage . |
| 20 | We were centred up on the gap in the reef : this must be it ! |
| 21 | She sits curled up on the couch in the sitting room of her house high above the ocean in Malibu , and gets just slightly dewy-eyed as she talks about her family and the early days . |
| 22 | All liners are installed in a broadly similar manner , those made from polythene being spread out on the lawn in the sun for an hour or two before installation in order to become more supple and mould to the excavation more readily . |
| 23 | The behaviour of shafts of clubs held in golf club-testing machines is very different from the performance of the same club out on the course in the hands of its owner . |
| 24 | Depending on this year 's crop of foals , Jonadab was hoping to send him out on the road in the following spring . |
| 25 | Out on the road in the battered VW we talk routes ; more specifically , about Gimmer . |
| 26 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 27 | A layout of that kind would have the advantage that you could leave your work out on the desk in the room and go back to it later — you would n't need to tidy up before you started on another piece of work , because you 'd go to another room to do it . |
| 28 | She laid the jewels out on the bed in the small atelier she was renting . |
| 29 | The sheets felt a bit damp so Mary spread them out on the terrace in the sun to dry . |
| 30 | So they took it back to Wyvis Hall and hung it up again and then they lay out on the terrace in the sun , eating rump steak and potato crisps and drinking Hirondelle rose . |