Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the crucial thing is to see that budget deficit coming down on a medium term basis convincingly . |
| 2 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 3 | Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago . |
| 4 | More than 100,000 delirious members of the Clinton fan club turned out on the streets . |
| 5 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 6 | And Super Kick off , the best game going out er , the best football game going out on the all computers ! |
| 7 | Rock music started up on every side — |
| 8 | The other side lever remains back on the . |
| 9 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 10 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 11 | At this point , a side glen comes in on the right with a path leading to the dominating heights of Carn Eige and Mam Sodhail , or from it the bealach between Tom a' Choinich and Toll Creagach may be reached and a fine view seen over Glen Cannich to the mountains of Glen Farrar . |
| 12 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 13 | My Lord at the briefing that we attended er there was a sketch plan drawn up on the er the dry wipe board in the briefing room . |
| 14 | As the ‘ Wares positioned themselves amongst the household Dunan gazed out on the Circle . |
| 15 | Putting down her cup , she reached for the silk robe laid out on a chair at the side of the bed . |
| 16 | The council and NCP have clashed over unsuccessful waterproofing work carried out on the upper deck . |
| 17 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 18 | JOE STRUMMER Last summer the former Clash singer set out on the fairly unequivocal ‘ Rock Against The Rich ’ tour , where he sounded pretty fed up about everything . |
| 19 | I asked one member of a church planting team to look back on the experience . |
| 20 | The Hawaii Ironman is the original and ultimate triathlon , where the swim is through 2.4 miles of ocean , and is immediately followed by a 112-mile cycle ride up on the black lava fields , where by mid-morning the temperature will be over 100 degrees . |
| 21 | He paused as the first hospital direction sign came up on the road . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | A distinguished backing band , including Dave Edmunds and Presley 's one-time guitarist , James Burton , knocked out a few appropriate standards while a video crew wandered about on the stage shining lights at an audience that had not paid to be treated as studio extras . |
| 24 | A window over the deep pot sink looked out on the upper par of the yard , its panes of dusty glass still criss-crossed with scraps of air-raid tape several years after the end of the war . |
| 25 | Since your viewfinder picture is not in colour ( unless you are one of the lucky ones who have a camcorder with a colour viewfinder to bring along on a shoot ) , you have a rely on your camcorder 's white balance system to get the colour-balancing right for you — and it probably will . |
| 26 | But with a lodestone compass which was er magnetic iron oxide hung up on the ship , you could actually then work out that you go straight across from there to there no problems . |
| 27 | Put your collage piece face down on a wad of white kitchen paper and paste the back . |
| 28 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
| 29 | These new men have made me see form , have made me more conscious of the sky where it juts down between houses , of the bright patterns of sunlight which the bath water throws up on the ceiling , of the great ‘ Vs ’ of light that dart through the chinks over the curtain rings , all these are new chords , new keys of design . |
| 30 | As the morning traffic builds up on the A49 they are rewarded with constant beeps of support from truckers , bus drivers , ordinary motorists and men in suits driving expensive company cars . |