Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her features were well-shaped even so early , and the jaw placed finely on the white neck with its blue flush of springing hair . |
| 2 | Tsu Ma went across and stood there , one foot resting lightly on the tiled lip of the well as he looked back across the valley towards the south . |
| 3 | My respectful view , for reasons which your Lordships will have noted , is that both the contention of the defence and the court 's refutation of it were misconceived : the absence of consent on the part of the owner is already inherent in the word ‘ appropriates , ’ properly understood , and therefore the argument for the defence got off on the wrong foot and the counter-argument that the words specified by the defence can not be read into section 1(1) did not assist the prosecution . |
| 4 | The decision centred mainly on the particular circumstances leading to the relationship between the bank and the debtor . |
| 5 | Erm the volume i i is tremendous and er one worries about the effect of the surging waters on such an old construction , now we far worse than and consequently the emergency services have had to consider all sorts of alternatives , some of which you see now with the piping on , on the surface of it 's been having a good result the immediate problem , but you ca n't stop there and the emergency team have given consideration to all sorts of other possible temporary solutions in the event or that the pumping failed and er I think that 's possibly where this rumour about erm the railway line arrived but er I think Chairman I 've said enough , we all , we would all agree I think that the emergency workers have performed er I think we 're all pleased to see the army coming in erm and doing what they 've done and erm I certainly er appreciated the opportunity to come in on the old A Twenty Seven through West it took my mind back er many years I can tell you and erm I , I think congratulations all round are due , but I come back to what 's all saying and which I support as it would be a folly when the dust has settled erm to really take a an objective er position and see that er arrangements are in hand channels and things like that will not again be supercharged in the way they are . |
| 6 | A car swished by on the main road . |
| 7 | Kosi left her plastic beaker of tea steaming gently on the nearest flat surface while she and Lars headed for the centre of the room . |
| 8 | The two of them looked at it , as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum . |
| 9 | In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles . |
| 10 | Although the position of the mouth indicates it is a bottom feeder , it does rise to the side to feed enthusiastically on the freeze-dried tubifex and swims in the lower middle areas of the aquarium . |
| 11 | The Association meets regularly on the first Friday of each month , at the RE Centre , when mass is said by our chaplain , Fr. |
| 12 | Active hegemony in effect operated only on the moderate right wing of Labour , that ‘ intellectual group most congenial to the majority of Trade Union leaders ’ ( ibid. p 181 ) . |
| 13 | Any rock lying around on the frozen continent stands a good chance of being a meteorite as — the occasional ice-piercing mountain aside — there is nowhere else to come from but the heavens . |
| 14 | His mind touched briefly on the two defaulters who were awaiting their fate in the basement cells . |
| 15 | They closed on the knife blade , twisted it out of the man 's hand , and then he was using the whole false arm as a metal club slamming down on the upraised arms , jabbing for the face , forcing the man back step by step until the edge of the track was only one more step away . |
| 16 | Replaying the sequence he realized that Ivy had braked hard , the car swerving slightly on the greasy surface , then backed up . |
| 17 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 18 | The pregnant housewife was found stabbed and battered after going missing when her car broke down on the M-50 motorway . |
| 19 | The body of the pregnant housewife was found near the M-50 motorway after her car broke down on the hard shoulder . |
| 20 | The pound fell heavily on the foreign exchanges to close down at one dollar , forty-three and down at two marks , thirty-six . |
| 21 | Perhaps more importantly the Merseyside Crime Survey ( MCS ) showed clearly that the impact of crime fell disproportionately on the elderly and the poor : |
| 22 | R. R. Dale 's ( 1969 , 1971 , 1974 ) three-volume study focuses mainly on the social advantages , and it is possible in any case to challenge the nature of the superior social development of girls which is argued to accompany mixed rather than single-sex schooling , since one of the things it may involve is breaking down girls ' resistance to the imposition of various stereotypes of femininity to a greater extent than is found in single-sex schools . |
| 23 | We finally gave up , agreeing that it was perhaps an old Dutch ritual performed always on the last night of a holiday . |
| 24 | All I mean by forearm rotation is that the forearm rotates slightly to the left on the backswing so that the club moves up on the correct swing plane . |
| 25 | The drapes were drawn over all the windows , the enormous marble-topped table that dominated the room lit by overhead lamps , the wash of their light thrown up on the six members , two of them women , sitting around it . |
| 26 | The liability to repay the deposit at the end of the term remained throughout on the original landlord and was an obligation to repay to the original tenant . |
| 27 | A car flashed by on the other side of the road . |
| 28 | The click of the misfire , as the hammer snapped home on the dud cartridge , was all the warning Angel One needed . |
| 29 | The response depends critically on the particular experimental method used to provoke it . |
| 30 | The instructions provided in this category depend heavily on the major data-types available and the addressing structure of the computer . |