Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clint : ‘ I think each existence rubs off on the other . |
| 2 | Only the church band — two clarionets , a serpent , a bassoon and an ill-tempered violoncello — brought much vigour to the services ; after the harmonies of King 's their enthusiasm fell stridently on the Rector 's ear . |
| 3 | A covenant in a lease is , prima , a contract binding only on the lessor and lessee . |
| 4 | Blood-sugar level goes up on the digestion of food . |
| 5 | To achieve crosswind landing exactly on the spot without using the engine and in a strange machine offers a strong challenge even to the most experienced pilot . |
| 6 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 7 | She spent the rest of her ‘ ninety years of aggressively independent living ’ 9 with only the consistent company of a pack of fox-terriers , alternatively at her Yorkshire cottage perched precariously on the edge of a cliff or in her Chelsea studio overlooking the river . |
| 8 | The call to baptism bore immediately on the restoration of Israel and the concomitant salvation of the nations . |
| 9 | The object of the authoring tool is to make it possible for the user to concentrate just on the information and design requirements of an application rather being diverted and befogged by the technical problems of putting them together in a system that works . |
| 10 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 11 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 12 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 13 | When a guest checks in the receptionist allocates a room showing a green light ; he or she presses a switch and the green light goes off on the board as well as on the cashier 's and housekeeper 's boards . |
| 14 | If they ask you what wing of the Party you belong to , say it is your intention to sit prettily on the fence . |
| 15 | I follow the line of the hedge along the side of the road , ducking once as a car drives past on the road ; its headlights sweep along the hedge above me . |
| 16 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 17 | The night-light glowed softly on the top of the chest of drawers . |
| 18 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |
| 19 | The maintenance carried out on the aquarium was a regular 10% water change and a regular ( every two weeks ) larger water change of 20% using an aquarium gravel cleaner to rid the gravel of unwanted waste . |
| 20 | THE pound rose again on the money markets yesterday sparking Government predictions of ‘ gentle ’ economic recovery . |
| 21 | At any point on the film , then , he could match up this picture with the force created simultaneously on the platform . |
| 22 | There is still a great deal to be learnt about early Anglo-Saxon society , both as a result of new excavations , the publication of older ones and research carried out on the wealth of material already published or in museums . |
| 23 | As you will appreciate , we hope to be collecting feedback on any research carried out on the tape within the next 4 to 6 months . |
| 24 | The ashtray by the bed was crammed with cigarette butts , and two mugs of cold , scummy tea perched precariously on the bed-side table . |
| 25 | In fact , the legal force of any particular rule depends partly on the source of its authority ( essentially , whether it is supported by statute or not ) ; partly on the way it is drafted ( rules which are drafted in precise technical language are more likely to be given some legal force than are rules drafted loosely and non-technically ) ; and partly on its contents . |
| 26 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 27 | The future of the coal industry depends crucially on the competitiveness of coal as a fuel for electricity generation . |
| 28 | Depth first search depends critically on the order in which the children C of N are added to the front of OPEN . |
| 29 | The most obvious of these is Apple 's PC 5.25″ drive , a standard 360K disk that connects to a card mounted internally on the SE or Macintosh II . |
| 30 | However , Pound 's diagnosis of Williams 's condition was surely perceptive : Williams could abide American reality ( where Pound and Eliot had to flee from it ) because , as in the admirable ‘ To Elsie ’ ( ’ The pure products of America / go crazy' ) , he remained the immigrant , the outsider looking in on the behaviour of the nation that he had been , by the sheerest accident , born to . |