Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fig. 122 Herakles stands three-quartered , offering the birds ' bodies ( lost ; we know the subject from Pausanias ) to Athena , who sits up on a rock on which her left hand rests , legs three-quartered away from Herakles , but she turns back towards him . |
| 2 | The railway will be operating as normal and anyone who turns up on the day can join in the fun . |
| 3 | An engaging Irish shaggy-dog story about a failed sixteen-year-old suicide who ends up on a vegetable truck bound for Sweden . |
| 4 | a rather simple girl who hangs about on the outskirts of a village … |
| 5 | Although , for the man who checks up on the standard of Britain 's prisons , there 's still some way to go . |
| 6 | Yet such lack of judgement does not justify the thief who breaks into the car and steals the radio or the hooligan who takes off on a joy ride . |
| 7 | ‘ I do n't want a leader of the country who walks out on the job when things are not going as he wants . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's a special word in Russian for someone who moves in on a household indefinitely and has the right to complain about the arrangements , ’ he said , ‘ and I 'm it . ’ |
| 9 | The best-kept literary secret of Manhattan is the chap ( ’ Call me Ed ’ ) who pops up on the West Side , on the pavement opposite the Beacon Theatre , for two hours every Saturday and Sunday afternoon . |