Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [adj] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in through the back door on Lily 's afternoon out . |
| 2 | By the thin moonlight that filtered in through the frosted glass on the front door , Liz could see that he held a silenced gun , and that its calibre was high . |
| 3 | Virendra Verma , a Janata Dal member of the Rajya Sabha , was sworn in as the new Governor on June 14 . |
| 4 | Surendra Nath was sworn in as the new governor on Aug. 7 . |
| 5 | The EC troika arrived in Zagreb on Aug. 2 but talks in Belgrade broke down after the third round on Aug. 4 which Milosevic boycotted . |
| 6 | And you the wee envelopes that came in with the black edging on them . |
| 7 | It is no longer our intention to provide this cover automatically as an air compressor would be deemed as Own Surrounding Property and therefore would only be covered for explosion risks if this endorsement was taken out along with the basic cover on the air receiver . |
| 8 | The Bridge disaster , along with the subsequent events on Moloch , had thrown Piper 's carefully calculated schedules into complete disarray . |
| 9 | The cave was several hundred yards across and just as high , dimly lit by lamps that stretched down from the indistinct ceiling on impossibly long cables . |
| 10 | The waiters ' spoons dig up down up down in the great trifle on the world-famous dessert trolley . |
| 11 | Japan continued to favour the guidelines laid down in the 1988 Convention on the Regulation of Antarctic Mineral Resources ( Cramra ) . |
| 12 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 13 | Then the main wall of water struck the building , and the shutters burst inwards like reeds , and the salt water rushed white and green into the hall at Orphir , thrusting obstructions aside , while a slap of water , heavy as lead , fell on the thatch and through it , to pour foaming down on the deepening sea on the hall-floor . |
| 14 | Ajayi sat down on the small stool on the other side of the table . |
| 15 | All settings up to about 8 ( out of 10 ) on the master volume elicit a clear , punchy tone , right down to the lower notes on my 5-string , and live it proved well able to compete with two rawk'n'rawl guitar players and a loud drum kit on an R&B pub gig . |
| 16 | The ideal organization and the one which has the best chance of success is one where , if you ask anybody from the chairman down to the newest recruit on the shop floor what that business is trying to do , you 'd get the same answer . |
| 17 | Turn the buckram down to the wrong side on the marked top edge of the curtain and tack it in place . |
| 18 | Everything was down to the last detail on this loco , including the small ladder which was originally attached to the ‘ A ’ end of the engine . |
| 19 | That is why Lloyd 's now needs to question its hallowed notion of unlimited liability , which makes names liable down to the last button on their boxer shorts . |
| 20 | I went along to the sleeping car on the far side of the kitchen and opened the door of the abode of Julius Apollo . |
| 21 | Finish off the sides by turning them in to the wrong side on the creaselines , with the interlining . |
| 22 | Fill the number in on the remaining circle on your game card . |
| 23 | It became known that we were perilously short of hay because the haytiming on our pastures had been very poor that summer and it was impossible to bring enough in on the horse-drawn sledge on the few occasions we were able to get out . |
| 24 | Their policy is to get in among the big clubs on merit , thus forcing television 's hand . |
| 25 | The Singphos ride in among the angry herd on their tame elephants , relying on the fact that , as in the mela. shikar , the wild elephants will accept the koonkies as one of them and take no notice of the men precariously perched on their backs . |
| 26 | It was just I , I went down they played Liverpool in the cup about that era , and the , the wall was pushed down at the Street end but erm the people just spilled on the pitch and I do n't think anyone was really hurt , this happened when they played er Liverpool in the cup a couple of years ago the wall was pushed down at the other end on that occasion , but er there was just one , one person hurt but there was n't anybody very seriously injured as I understand |
| 27 | Turning her head towards him , Laura glanced down at the rumped sheets on the mattress beside her . |
| 28 | Chris , Marius and the Swiss who had come from Lille were here ; Alex had been turned down at the last moment on a medical detail . |
| 29 | She stared unseeingly down at the red stain on the Chester 's blue and green flowered fabric , then gathered her wits to dab at it slowly with her heavy cream damask napkin she took from the table . |
| 30 | Virginia stared down at the half-eaten roll on her plate , and took a shaky sip of coffee . |