Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir , So , the swords are drawn with the Government at long last , now that you have a UK Chairman whose speech at this inauguration laid it firmly on the line , that what this country needs is a transport policy to serve commerce and social preference . |
| 2 | On the spiritual side it was at one time also considered self-evident that the Russians , adherence to the Christian religion put them automatically on a higher plane than the heathen , raw-flesh-eating ‘ savages ’ . |
| 3 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 4 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 5 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 6 | She beamed at her husband , bravely facing the barrage of produce , and winced as a particularly juicy specimen caught him right on the chin . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'll be safe enough , but I 've a feeling it will be a long job to get her back on an even keel . |
| 8 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 9 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 10 | THANK you , too — for giving me an opportunity to put you right on a simple matter of fact . |
| 11 | In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres . |
| 12 | ‘ It 'll give me a chance to fill you in on the situation , ’ he 'd told her . |
| 13 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 14 | The elder of the two leaned down from the saddle to clap him amiably on the shoulder , and said a word or two in his ear , before they trotted away along the Foregate towards the Horse Fair . |
| 15 | The excitement was very high , and the pressure of the other chimpanzees in the tree forced him down on the ground , where he was greeted by the screaming females . |
| 16 | Without hesitation she kicked him under the chin , the full weight of the kick throwing him flat on the floor . |
| 17 | They overpowered him and , while the rest held him down on the pavement , one of them put the razor in the corner of Joyce 's mouth and slit his cheek backwards beyond the ear . |
| 18 | My sister hit me hard on the head . |
| 19 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 20 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 21 | It 's what will WE do ? ’ he replied , rising from his chair to kiss her lightly on the forehead on his way to the Scotch decanter . |
| 22 | I expected no different when his Lordship sent me out on the morning of the 19th . |
| 23 | He took a flashlight from his pocket to shine it down on the face of the petrified child who clung to the side of her mother . |
| 24 | The Kadets had won the largest block of deputies to the First Duma , they had enjoyed the spectacle of leading figures in the government sounding them out on the terms on which they would enter the cabinet ; power seemed almost within their grasp . |
| 25 | A middle-aged man picked me up on the M4 near Swindon and offered me a lift to London , which was very convenient . |
| 26 | Nevertheless there is little doubt that in the cases of Frederick and Joseph at least a feeling that an enlightened ruler ought to be above merely personal and family considerations , that it was his duty to sacrifice them ruthlessly on the altar of the State , was a factor in their behaviour to their own blood relations . |
| 27 | He were a remarkable man in his way : he went down a well to clean it out on the day he died . |
| 28 | In February , after an exhausting series of tests , the doctor let us in on the secret my father strove to keep until the end of his life . |
| 29 | His shadow touched her lightly on the nose . |
| 30 | Azar called me over and with a flourish sat me down on a plastic deckchair at the front of the ring of spectators . |