Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
| 2 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
| 3 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
| 4 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
| 5 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
| 6 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
| 7 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
| 8 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 9 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |
| 10 | It only slowed down on nearing the outskirts of Teplyystan where it turned off on to a narrow road leading into the Bittsevsky forest park , a panoramic landscape of ravines and gorges layered with fir , oak and pine plantations . |
| 11 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
| 12 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
| 13 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
| 14 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
| 15 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
| 16 | While a person engaged in a particular event can rarely see the whole set of circumstances in clear perspective he can record the minutiae of a situation which might well be lost when the position is looked back on at a later date . |
| 17 | A nearby car blared its horn loudly and , to Jessamy 's intense relief , Julius seemed to get control over himself again very rapidly , steering them back on to a straight course . |
| 18 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
| 19 | ‘ Are n't we going to have something to eat ? ’ she asked as she caught up with him , trying to steer the conversation back on to a safe subject . |
| 20 | this has got costs back on to a sensible basis , and he is convinced that this assures the Company of its place at the forefront of the european industry . |
| 21 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
| 22 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
| 23 | She stepped out on to a narrow cement path . |
| 24 | Wu Shih turned , leading them along the lang , the covered walkway , then up a twist of wooden steps and out on to a broad gallery above a concealed lake . |
| 25 | Through the large plate glass windows ( a pleasant feature of all Wildfowl Trust Centres ) we looked out on to a deep lagoon , dug especially to attract wild birds . |
| 26 | The next morning , as Harriet looked out on to a calmer sea , she switched on her wireless to hear that the Second Front had begun . |
| 27 | At the top of the atrium , the pitched-roof-profile roof-light was made larger than was strictly necessary in order to provide a conservatory complete with tropical plants ( Plate 48 ) which leads out on to a landscaped roof garden capping the western half of the building . |
| 28 | Turn out on to a deep-sided dish . |
| 29 | The expanse of beach was so denuded of any trace of the present century we might have stepped out on to a distant planet . |
| 30 | The Doctor found himself in a room bordered by folding screens which opened out on to a wide area which was covered by a light wooden roof supported by thin , widely spaced poles . |