Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [noun sg] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the telephone rang Leonora got up listlessly , so certain it would be one of Elise 's friends that she slid down on the floor in a heap , heart thumping , at the sound of Penry 's voice . |
| 2 | Mr Azul bucks up and down on the bed in a bizarre parody of sexual energy . |
| 3 | An example of a processing bias would be the use of a mental filter — characteristically homing in on the negative in a situation and leaving the positive out of account . |
| 4 | No pin-ups , just pictures cut from magazines and stuck up on the wall in a kind of patchwork : pictures of lambs and cats and small puppies with ribbons round their necks , country cottages and the tropical beaches that went with advertisements for white rum , whose colours could n't possibly be real . |
| 5 | I was listening engrossed to the woman I was walking to work with , who the night before had found two night-screws stretched out on the desk in a passionate embrace when she 'd gone downstairs to the office to ask for a Tampax . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'll just out on the porch in a skirt with a shotgun and a torn umbrella , and if you hit your baseball into my yard you 'll never see it again . ’ |
| 7 | After a bit , he took off his debonair jacket and lay back on the bed in a beautiful fluted shirt , much creased , holding her newspaper over his head to look at the article she had been reading . |
| 8 | ‘ Dammit to hell , ’ he cursed , letting her go abruptly so that she fell back on the bed in an untidy heap . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'll be back on the lake in an hour . |
| 10 | The idea for this workshop came out of a realisation that Modularity was very much back on the agenda in a wide variety of institutions . |
| 11 | He took the dose and immediately collapsed , rolling around on the floor in a kind of agony that most people could not contemplate . |
| 12 | After a few sessions of steering the model around on the ground in a ‘ zero height hover ’ , you will reach the stage where the power can be increased in short bursts to lift the model clear of the ground for short periods . |