Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 2 | Place the spaceship carefully on to the red spaceship base , so that the candy tips rest on the cake . |
| 3 | All Souls was given a new roof oversailing the upper parapets , throwing water directly on to the lower aisle roofs . |
| 4 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 5 | And if your eyes followed the river westwards , you could have looked up from the valley directly on to the bald patch that was the cultivated land midway up the forested slope of Jimale . |
| 6 | A chance for a swim then on to the friendly and charming island of Paxos for the evening . |
| 7 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 8 | A computerised national criminal record system on the police national computer will enable police forces to enter information directly on to the national collection . |
| 9 | there was an appeal for a penalty late on in the 2nd half but it was turned doen . |
| 10 | Although the two forms are almost certainly not interchangeable in JC , having different functions , both are used for past actions and map broadly on to the British English simple past . |