Example sentences of "[noun sg] on [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 2 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 3 | Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer . |
| 4 | For there , hard at work dubbing the soundtrack on to a new series of Minder at Anvil Studios , was the Lotus Elan-hero-turned-De Lorean cohort I 'd been longing to unmask . |
| 5 | George Michael would find it easiest to grow older gracefully , eventually launching his 1987 album Faith on to a perfectly-targeted audience of millions . |
| 6 | She was just bending over to pat powder on to a young actress 's face when she heard the door open behind her and a strange tingle of apprehension prickled the back of her neck . |
| 7 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 8 | Some of the sepoys were shot or cut down as they struggled to get over the possessions ' which stuck out jaggedly here and there ; a sowar pitched headless from his horse on to a silted-up velvet chaise longue ; a warrior from Oudh dived head first in a glittering shower through a case of tropical birds while a comrade at his elbow died spreadeagled on the mud-frozen wheels of the gorse bruiser . |
| 9 | When he arrived there were disappointingly few people and he felt rather obvious holding on to a rolled-up newspaper . |
| 10 | He turned the oven on to 250 and put the okra and the edenwort on to a low heat . |
| 11 | I reached over for a large tin on my right , prised the tight lid off with my knife and used a small teaspoon inside to place some of the white mixture from the tin on to a round metal plate in front of the old dog 's skull . |
| 12 | TWO workmen were in hospital last night after falling 18ft through a false roof on to a concrete floor . |
| 13 | Cyril emptied several grams of cocaine on to a circular mirror and began to cut it up with a razor blade . |
| 14 | First , I draw out the outline of the motif on to a mylar sheet , with all the outlines for the different areas of colour I want to use . |
| 15 | He scattered these from a window on to a sandy area just in front of the inn door . |
| 16 | Bull O'Malley threw his overcoat on to a nearby couch and sat down heavily . |
| 17 | Glue the fabric for the bow on to a small piece of card , cut out and attach to the bear 's neck by gluing the centre of the bow only . |
| 18 | But a lull in Burnley 's flurries saw Tony Daws leap on to a bad back-pass , skip round a defender and the converging goalkeeper and equalise just after the hour . |
| 19 | The Polish replica moved the breaking of Enigma on from a theoretical exercise to a practical one and Knox always gave the Poles credit for the part they played . |
| 20 | It appears that German states are opposing a VAT-like tax on in an inconsistent way , aggravated , aggravated by a failure to warn of any increase in the tax in January nineteen ninety three . |
| 21 | According to the PLO 's sources , the Toshiba radio-cassette bomb used to destroy Flight 103 had been built by Khaisar Haddad , also known as Abu Elias , a blond , blue-eyed Lebanese Christian member of the PFLP — GC , who passed the completed device on to an Iranian contact in Beirut . |
| 22 | Erm so really and truly i i you know with what we 'd got it was sort of carrying the business on in a very sort of low way and instead of going round collecting the work it was all done through the post . |
| 23 | In the mortuary the night porters had swung open the huge white doors of the refrigerator and lifted the shrouded , stiffened body on to an empty shelf . |
| 24 | But Mann has battled through everything to make a visually stunning piece of cinema that has launched a notoriously shy and guarded actor on to an international career as a leading man . |
| 25 | Dad spent quite a time loading manure on to a flat-bedded cart , harnessed a horse , put it between the shafts and away to Bugmore we went , with me feeling like a king beside him . |
| 26 | Fabia watched as , dropping the dog lead on to a large kitchen table , the dark man addressed a few remarks to the woman who then went to a drawer and took from it a large tin box and brought it to him . |
| 27 | Britain , free of its ERM obligation to keep interest rates high and sterling strong , urged its recovery on with a massive easing of monetary policy . |
| 28 | In panic the dealer had offloaded the stuff on to a willing client . |
| 29 | Outside , to the right , the Coke machine switches up a gear , back on for a big freeze . |
| 30 | But at any rate I can finally dust my hands and put my jacket on with a clear conscience . |