Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't know how long she knelt on the cold floor with her mother still and silent in her arms . |
| 2 | Swiftly they closed on the running prey up ahead , the scent growing stronger in their nostrils , heightening the bloodlust of the chase . |
| 3 | Suddenly he fell on the wet deck , and he caught the side of the ship with his hands . |
| 4 | I ca n't remember exactly who lived on the right hand side , I 've forgotten but th I know the Chief Clerk lived just a little way down , you see , er |
| 5 | However , that is exactly what happened on the 7th of September this year when Christy , 65 , from Kelburne Drive , was reunited not only with his British comrades but also the Germans he bravely fought against . |
| 6 | She went steadily on , from foothold to foothold , only stopping to peel off her glove now and then and push a finger into the wet fringed mouth of a sea-anemone , but mostly she concentrated on the next step , the next handhold , with the sea on one side of her , the swell of grassy land the other . |
| 7 | Sometime after 2500 BC there arose on the Mediterranean island of Crete a civilization that was , for the time , extremely advanced . |
| 8 | Ten minutes later she appeared on the distant seashore . |
| 9 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 10 | Now she swayed on the towering waves to the north , and glittering on her prow were the slim copper tubes that had faced the ship of the Order that had brought them all from Rhodes to Cyprus . |
| 11 | Now he concentrated on the mysterious murders in the forest . |
| 12 | Two years ago we reported on the seismic survey work being carried out in the Solent to determine if oil drilling there would be profitable . |
| 13 | Next to the eastern granary the aqueduct , which no doubt had served the successive forts , was provided with a new channel and distribution tanks ; the source of water is unknown but presumably it lay on the higher ground to the north of Hadrian 's Wall . |
| 14 | There we stood on the perilous slope . |
| 15 | Then they started on the front line of police . |
| 16 | Unfortunately he turned on the wrong tap , which gave hot water instead of cold . |
| 17 | The Don/R spread his legs so he was holding the bike up , then he rapped on the back door of the Transit with a gauntleted hand . |
| 18 | Then he advanced on the reckless fellow . |
| 19 | No , the sea , said Wilkie , and she looked out , at the Stella Maris , anchored off the coast , and there he stood on the curving prow , pale on the pale sky , with a triangular patch of yellow like a painted sun — Van Gogh chrome , not Renaissance gilt — between his thighs and his limbs creamy-brown like the foam on the new cappuccino coffee . |
| 20 | There he worked on the unfashionable inorganic chemistry ; his science was always to be on the boundary of physics and chemistry . |
| 21 | She did not beg her , as Cati did — Rosa had heard her — to help her be good , help her to be pure , and never have dirty thoughts or put her fingers in dirty places ; instead she fixed on the amber doe 's eyes that had gushed , above the hilt of a sword , which was studded with bright glass stones and stuck out from the statue 's brocade costume . |
| 22 | Instead he concentrated on the unofficial Ford Workers ' Combine , which bypassed the official union structure dominated by the Transport and General Workers ' Union . |