Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He pushed her gently down on to the settee and sat so close to her that she could hardly breathe for fear that she 'd betray how much she wanted him . |
| 2 | My Lords , I did not speak on the second reading of this Bill , because I spoke extremely critically on in the debate on the White Paper o on er May the 26th last year , but er I would therefore like to er commence by joining with my Right Honourable Friend Lord Whitelaw because I was so critical , in welcoming the changes which the Home Secretary has now proposed . |
| 3 | ‘ Sorry to mention a critic 's name so early on in the proceedings . |
| 4 | I reckon your sort of timetable for doing this wants to be , early next week to meet to work out exactly what questions you are gon na do and mak make a questionnaire and perhaps later on in the week Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , start to ask some people Now on the Friday this time this we this time next week you c |
| 5 | Owen caught her and eased her gently back on to the sofa . |
| 6 | Have you ever been in love , Ellie ? ’ he asked , bringing them gently back on to the track he wanted . |
| 7 | In their study of a sample of divorcees , Thornes and Collard ( 1979 ) found that wives tended to believe that there were marital problems much earlier on in the marriage . |
| 8 | The double doors allowed the wagons loaded with corn to pass right through on to the floor of the middlestead . |
| 9 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |
| 10 | The reception area had obviously been designed to impress , with its mushroom-coloured Anton Plus carpet imported from America , its three-tiered Czechoslovakian glass crystal lights , its brown leather armchairs and its crushed velour curtains draped ornately on either side of the plate glass window facing directly out on to the car park . |
| 11 | get into the point that like earlier on in the conversation |
| 12 | So if somewhere later on in the book she says , Michael Heseltine was a rotten old so and so . |
| 13 | We were in the sports hall and she flew right up on to the top of the climbing frame at the far end from where I was giving my little lecture . |
| 14 | And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’ |
| 15 | Come straight down on to the concrete floor . |
| 16 | In the Technosyn equipment , the gun is arranged so that the beam fires obliquely down on to the specimen ( Fig. 6.2 ) and these magnets are not needed . |
| 17 | Do n't imagine you can walk easily straight up on to the Arête from the bottom of the corrie , as you may get into difficulties near the top unless you 've a head for heights . |
| 18 | There is in particular one very small hotel , the Hôtel des Rem parts , whose rear windows look straight out on to the church and its battlements , and beyond them to the woods and escarpments rising sharply behind . |
| 19 | He shut the gate then just ran straight out on to the road . |
| 20 | The pageant they built was crude — a ladder and a low plinth for God to sit on , a single trapdoor straight out on to the grass , a curtain across to conceal anyone who used it . |
| 21 | Where there is a real emergency , the best tactic is to go straight out on to the street and recruit signatures . |
| 22 | Thus my first glimpse of Isvik was from the bathroom window of a seafaring man , who had exchanged his small coaster for a house on the quay looking straight out on to the Magellan Strait . |
| 23 | He got straight back on to the divan and lay with his eyes shut , as if I should n't have come and I felt I ought never to have come ( especially without telling C ) , and I felt as well that it really was a bit much , a pose . |
| 24 | He went straight back on to the mat to work with his judo partner of a decade and more , Brown . |
| 25 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 26 | SUMMER can be hell if you are among the hordes who endure nettle rash , bad reactions to insect bites and stings , sensitivity to sunlight , or any of the allergies which are so common from now right on through the summer . |
| 27 | She threw herself angrily down on to the bed , furious at the predicament into which Jason had pitchforked her . |
| 28 | Though Invergordon 's shares dipped sharply early on in the morning after the figures , by the close of play they had recovered to end only 1p down at 269p . |
| 29 | Some groups ( for example people with long-term rheumatoid arthritis ) typically experience a progressive deterioration which usually starts fairly early on in the disability career . |
| 30 | I wheeled it jauntily out on to the street . |