Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 3 | From here to the coast the hills are open , the sun pours down on the huge dry fields , the atmosphere is colourless . |
| 4 | Most referees will tell you that when a new directive comes out on a particular law , referees tend to concentrate on that law , sometimes at the expense of refereeing other laws . |
| 5 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 6 | ‘ A good brisk walk is equivalent to a jog any time ’ ) ; that when a lightly built eight-stone person runs around on a hard surface , his/her knees suffer a momentary weight equivalent to three-quarters of a ton with each step he/she takes ; that dieting and exercises together can cause hormonal imbalances , infertility and period loss in women ; that the death rate of stressed , worried , prejudiced-against-smoking non-smokers can be three times as high as that of relaxed smokers . |
| 7 | Pop concert goes out on a bad note |
| 8 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 9 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 10 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
| 11 | Even such things as the maximum angle of bank in certain configurations are specified , so once a pilot sets out on a particular flight his actions , or at least the manner in which he should fly the aeroplane , are known in precise detail . |
| 12 | In some cases you will find that three times the drift on the outbound leg is too much , and the outbound heading comes out on the wrong side of the wind . |
| 13 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 14 | The corn earworm moth , whose hungry larvae can decimate an otherwise healthy crop , has antennae tuned to these as well as other specific frequencies , with the result that when the female flies about on a clear moonlit night , she ‘ sees ’ — through her antennae — the whole field lit up , like an array of a myriad natural light bulbs . |
| 15 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |