Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [adj] [noun prp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 2 | Slowing things down on a busy Wednesday afternoon on Trent F M. |
| 3 | They won because Gloucester , brave and energetic and often on top in the second half , took too long to close down on the former Eire winger Jeff Chandler . |
| 4 | ITV chiefs are cashing in on a sick US craze by inviting viewers to send in video film of real-life horrors . |
| 5 | The paper started by zeroing in on the inner London boroughs . |
| 6 | Havis persuaded British Airways to let him ride along on a New York-to-London Concorde trip . |
| 7 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 8 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 9 | Their bodies were later found washed up on a northern Natal beach close to the Mozambique border . |
| 10 | Another Canadian orchestra — the Toronto SO conducted by Andrew Davis — pops up on the all- Beethoven programme , consisting of the ‘ Emperor ’ Concerto , the Fantasia for Piano , Chorus and Orchestra , and the King Stephen Overture , and the King Stephen Overture . |
| 11 | Curtain up on the 40th Oxford Gang Show , an annual event which means months of frantic organisation and jolly hard team work for those taking part ; a ritual of devotion from backstage helpers and an early taste of stagefright for aspiring young performers . |
| 12 | The main finishing dais will be set up on the cobbled William Brown Street . |
| 13 | The former James Bond star got stagefright only weeks before the curtain was due to go up on the original West End show and made a shock exit . |
| 14 | When the offer first came up we 'd had an even lower-budget series go out on a national US cable network but , apart from that critically-lauded effort , no TV experience . |
| 15 | COUNTRY star Daniel O'Donnell sets out on a 46-date UK tour next week … after fears that he might never perform again . |
| 16 | She was in pain , but she was taking it out on a complicated Fair Isle jumper that she was knitting for some nephew in Canada . |
| 17 | All of whom have been second-guessed by Ollie , who romps his plodmobile ( definitely not a Lagonda ! ) gaily down the Bayswater Road , barrels up Piccadilly , even throttles back on the vacant Euston Road to give the competition a sporting chance . |
| 18 | But then it is believed Diana and her children will be back on the huge Althorp Estate . |