Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 2 | The small birds clustered tightly on the swinging coconut were fighting for a firm grip . |
| 3 | He was lounging on the sofa when she returned to the house , his long legs propped up on a low onyx table , while he flicked his way desultorily through the pages of a paperback . |
| 4 | The task was designed to minimize feelings of risk and thus prevent attention focusing , however , it is possible that actually feeling risk is not necessary for drivers to concentrate exclusively on the risky aspects of the stimuli . |
| 5 | It seemed utterly incongruous that there were cars parked outside on the wide circular drive — carriages would have looked more appropriate . |
| 6 | In ( a ) no geometrical details are allowed for and the bounds depend only on the relative volumes of the constituents . |
| 7 | With the water high up on the beach the sea is very choppy and launching is very difficult because the waves break viciously on the steep upper slopes of the beach which is frequently a shingle ridge . |
| 8 | The words came out on a shaky laugh . |
| 9 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 10 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 11 | Then Mr. Shelford makes his pathetic statement on referees clamping down on the high tackle . |
| 12 | Fazisi survived only on the good will of the people at each stopover . |
| 13 | The people on the pavements were always sprucely dressed , they pushed their prams or followed their dogs at a leisurely , unhurried pace ; the cars purred quietly on the smooth roads ; there was always somebody playing at the Tennis Club . |
| 14 | It was Blossom , moving at a brisk trot , great udder swinging , eyes fixed purposefully on the open door behind us . |
| 15 | In the match at Manchester , the scorer of one of the Tottenham goals took off on a frenzied high-stepping run , knees and arms pumping like pistons — and he was going backwards . |
| 16 | Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor , gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth . |
| 17 | As in a fairy-story , when the great man entered the room where the models were displayed , his eyes fell immediately on the glittering and finely crafted work of the youngest and least known of the competitors . |
| 18 | In the Kenyan savannahs where chimpanzees were first studied intensively in the wild , the animals live primarily on a vegetarian diet of fruit and leaves , together with insects such as termites . |
| 19 | Both brothers shifted uncomfortably on the wet ground but did not answer . |
| 20 | Salvo spoke in a low voice , but his words carried easily on the still air . |
| 21 | Ajayi sat down on the small stool on the other side of the table . |
| 22 | Many fans missed out on the limited runs of the seven-inch versions and the 12-inch was also more suited for export . |
| 23 | Many new fans missed out on the spiky delights of their early material so Red Rhino did a mopping up exercise and put 12 songs on a mid-price album called ‘ Tommy ’ . |
| 24 | The hours burned by on the green screen , and when they finally flopped in Lucy 's living room , sipping brandy , a key turned in the lock and in came the charmingly dishevelled one and only son . |
| 25 | Nearly all the earliest printed illustrations of American Indians concentrated obsessively on the gory details of their supposed cannibalism . |
| 26 | Mining in those areas occurred initially on the exposed fields in the area between Leeds and Derby , and it gradually shifted eastwards , as improvements in technology allowed deeper pits to be sunk , onto the concealed deposits . |
| 27 | A side view of the decamer ( Fig. 1 b ) shows that CsA-binding loops of CypA are on one face of the pentamer whereas the secondary structure elements line up on the opposite surface . |
| 28 | Well , Kenny 's Rovers stand today on a level footing with Brian 's Forest exactly 15 years ago this holiday week-end . |
| 29 | Burial in a churchyard was becoming a thing of the past in central London from the 1840s onwards ; space was too precious , and the task of burying the dead was taken over by non-denominational cemeteries run largely on a commercial basis . |
| 30 | Most younger counsellors will have learnt about the war from texts , films and documentaries based essentially on the political view of history . |