Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 2 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 3 | A lump came to her throat and she sat down suddenly on the safest-looking chair she could find . |
| 4 | gone down anyway on the basic rate |
| 5 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 6 | To free herself of it , Ronni sat down quickly on the wooden seat behind her . |
| 7 | Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick . |
| 8 | With the economy predicted to be on the upturn it is perhaps the right time for Allied to invest in the Firkin chain and cash in early on the next consumer boom . |
| 9 | MARCH quarter results for the six gold mines in the Gold Fields of South Africa stable , are down marginally on the preceding quarter . |
| 10 | After the first landing , the things to practise are more variations in the approaches and landings , trying some steep and some shallow , but attempting to touch down accurately on the chosen spot . |
| 11 | They sat him down roughly on the outside bench , and his head hit the wall with a thud . |
| 12 | He was supposed to be down here on the second part of a double shift . |
| 13 | He has the habit of lifting the bat again from the raised position , thus coming down late on the yorker-type delivery . |
| 14 | And then , the nightmare seemed to take further bizarre shape again , when she swallowed down hard on the choking hoarseness in her voice , and she forced herself to control that anger when she spoke again : ‘ It 's 1964 . |
| 15 | Holyfield , watching Ruddock gunned down live on the American HBO cable network at his training camp home in Houston where he is preparing for his November 13 defence against Bowe , said : ‘ Sure , Lewis looked good but I 'm not alarmed because I 'm a very cool person . |
| 16 | At the sound of her mother 's voice , faint but even at this distance still accusing , away down there on the snow-covered lawn , Alexandra drew away from the window into the shadows of the room behind . |
| 17 | You just turn the key down there on the right hand side . " |
| 18 | Lynn Carter had put in her time down there on the sexual shop floor — there were two teenage sons to prove it — but now she 'd taken early retirement . |
| 19 | His spirit was epitomised by the way he came charging in late on the final day , giving it everything he had , despite an unresponsive surface and the near-certainty that the match would finish in a draw . |
| 20 | Now the suddenly released , accumulated weight of all those pent-up seconds was bearing down heavily on the unbraced stones . |
| 21 | ‘ Mighty magic , ’ commented the barbarian , pushing down heavily on the complaining blade with a hand the size of a ham . |
| 22 | Jennie then asked Katharine to come across the half diagonal in a nice , steady canter , and to imagine ‘ picking him up and putting him down again on the other leg . ’ |
| 23 | It 's also worth learning how to jump from a height so that you can get down again on the other side . |
| 24 | Then he sat down again on the golden stool which had been placed on the balcony of the chamber . |
| 25 | He sat down again on the very edge of the chair and they drank the tea in silence . |
| 26 | No , she must have invisibly ascended through those upwards-sloping corridors and irritating little steps , and come down again on the spiral staircase . |
| 27 | She realised suddenly that she was in the wrong lane , and pulled over sharply on the slippery road . |
| 28 | Scientists on the ground had final control over the detonation of the larger 200 kilo explosive package and set it off directly on the magnetic field lines in the middle of the auroral arc . |
| 29 | The cycle chain came off twice on the three miles back to the van , but I could n't be cross . |
| 30 | Springing up microscopically on the double helices to create that most controversial of creatures — the human embryo . |