Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 2 | Finally I turned and started back , not conscious of anything , my mind still locked in on the impression the place had made so that I only vaguely heard a voice calling me . |
| 3 | Rioting also broke out on the West Bank , where two Palestinians were shot dead , and in Nazareth and other towns within the pre-1967 " green line " . |
| 4 | Both convergent and divergent modes of thought are necessary for a creative act to occur : the writer must actually arrange his freely associated ideas into organised prose or the scientist finally home in on the solution to a problem . |
| 5 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 6 | In February 1973 an eruption suddenly burst out on the tiny island of Heimaey , and for a time it seemed as though the town of Heimaey , Iceland 's biggest fishing port , would be destroyed . |
| 7 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 8 | ‘ Some of our team just turned up on the night , pulled and had a belly full of beer . ’ |
| 9 | The antibiotic mould supposedly drifting in on the wind becomes prosaic when its magic is revealed only by tedious operations in a laboratory or factory . |
| 10 | Someone was talking about the accident last night in the saloon — word soon gets round on the Island . |
| 11 | With this sort of baggage still going round on the carousel , it 's a pity that Europa Europa does n't marshall its thought-provoking material into a better movie . |
| 12 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 13 | The government also cracked down on the media , closing the Lagos daily newspaper The Punch for three weeks from April 29 and detaining the paper 's deputy editor , Chris Mamah . |
| 14 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 15 | Her hands flew up in horror then slammed down on the steering wheel . |
| 16 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 17 | The Inspector had pulled his radio out to check up on the ambulance . |
| 18 | Within a month I was back in the garden again catching up on the weeding . |
| 19 | Gaughan again popped up on the right wing to centre for Nick Cusack to force Stewart into another diving save , then the impressive Andy Toman charged on to a Steve Mardenborough flick , and fired just wide with the keeper beaten . |
| 20 | Mrs Thatcher was known to dislike the rating system but the rates continued to climb , largely because the Treasury steadily cut back on the grants paid to local authorities . |
| 21 | As opposed to the Islamic loony now prancing around on the other side of the room , thought Robert bitterly . |