Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] on [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 2 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 3 | First there 's a run down on the basics of all terrain driving . |
| 4 | He brought his talons and beak down on the bars with such force that the very Cages themselves shook with the power of it . |
| 5 | He has a place out on the downs between St Ives and Penzance , a school of occult studies , would you believe ? |
| 6 | About six months earlier I 'd put my name down on the lists of three housing associations , because I was sick of the council houses they were giving me . |
| 7 | As Sutton pushed each new recruit through on the grounds of urgency , he would gain a new ally . |
| 8 | The evening before he had procured from the local library a copy of Gerald Seymour-Strachey 's essay in autobiography , but a quick flick through the index had assured him there was no mention of Walter Machin , and he had n't had time to bone up on the details of the man himself 's career . |
| 9 | A perfect day out on the hills behind Boddington watching the hunt career around us while we were exploring Hobbit country with Patrick . |
| 10 | Moreover , my forays outdoors became adventures into loonyland : for instance , asking directions from a garage attendant : ‘ Lost , are you , Beattie ? 'Ere , boys — what do you think of young Melvyn , letting his mum out on the roads without a minder ? |
| 11 | The two directors have done their best , speeding the tale along on the wings of Bessie Smith and mouth-organ blues . |
| 12 | A chef would never leave a kitchen with food out on the worktops at the end of the day , and front desk is always tidied at the end of a shift , but how many managers do more than simply turn off the computer and go home at the end of a session with their spreadsheet or word processor ? |
| 13 | Part V ends the Balboa saga back on the streets of Philadelphia , with Rock training a new white contender and falling out with his son ( Sage Stallone ) . |
| 14 | How do they feel their way about on the frontiers of their familiar world ? |
| 15 | In 1991 the local council issued a German-language brochure on the history of the once splendid castle of the Thun-Hohenstein family up on the cliffs above the Elbe , which until two years ago housed a Soviet barracks and now is a semi-ruin with wrecked interiors . |