Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] [pron] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you would n't mind coming along to light us on the way back ? |
| 2 | As soon as we received the tree preservation order we rushed down to pi-n i-t on the tree . |
| 3 | ‘ Well then , you had better have one , ’ said Diana , and bent down to kiss him on the cheek . |
| 4 | He bent down to kiss her on the lips , and Folly felt her head start to swim again as she reached up to place her hand behind his neck , drawing him down . |
| 5 | He came down to join her on the floor . |
| 6 | She makes a rude gesture , involving several hypothetical orifices , then strides over to plant herself on the arm of Rainbow 's chair . |
| 7 | As Seb passed by he placed his hands on her shoulders and leaned over to kiss her on the cheek . |
| 8 | He is a seasoned traveller as well as an agile ladder climber , often coming up to join us on the roof . |
| 9 | Then I heard him falling and hurried back to find him on the floor . |
| 10 | By the time he had staggered into the yard he could hardly stand up , hitting the ancient , mossy mounting block and tripping over one of the green tubs filled with white geraniums , as Little Chef came bounding out to lick him on the nose . |
| 11 | The first occurs at the transition from the institution to independence , when the girls were often in need of help and about to launch themselves on a course in life from which it might be hard to turn back . |
| 12 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , they would be , would n't they ? ’ she interrupted sarcastically , ‘ seeing as they were just about to send you on a spying mission ! ’ |
| 14 | I was engrossed in these thoughts and just about to drip it on the top of my head as I had seen Sally do when , from nowhere , a hand knocked me to the floor , spilling the contents of the bottle . |