Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 2 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
| 3 | She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair . |
| 4 | I often took it with me when going to the allotment and felt very grown up on the return journey if my father had put a few vegetables in it . |
| 5 | Another , who did not pass by on the hour , might think , not of Death , but of the astrolabe showing the positions of the planets . |
| 6 | The orchestra did not miss out on the fun either , starting with an unscored game of hunt-the-missing-French-horn-part ( eventually found lurking on the bassoonist 's stand ) , which delayed the start . |
| 7 | We were given to understand that the A.S.R. boats did not put out on the express orders of the A.O.C. that they would be too vulnerable to air attack . |
| 8 | In 1964 the traffic similarly did not pose quite such a problem as in 1988 , the car parking round the district proving quite adequate , especially as the expected crowds did not turn up on the day . |
| 9 | If the message did n't sink in on a Sunday a range of weeknight meetings reinforced it . |
| 10 | I could n't swim , never have been able to , and I did n't go out on a boat because along with the rest of the family I have always been afraid of water . |
| 11 | ‘ We did n't go in on the free travel promotion because many of the deals involved British Rail and we do n't have it here , ’ she said . |
| 12 | Lucy Lane said : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journal . ’ |
| 13 | And Lucy Lane : ‘ I wonder he did n't cash in on the journals . ’ |
| 14 | But she knew that , if she did n't turn up on the beach , Ross would only come back to fetch her . |
| 15 | I 'm surprised you did n't fall over on the way here . ’ |
| 16 | Some of those problems had already shown up on the print-outs , let alone from the drivers . |
| 17 | And a similar state of affairs had meanwhile come about on the other side of the lines . |
| 18 | If only Oliver had not fallen over on the path he would not have gone to spend the night with Marjorie and Mr Sargent . |
| 19 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 20 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 21 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |
| 22 | I was enormously glad she had made that little speech for the mere sight of Erich — the knowledge that a man who worked as a painter in a Ford Taunus factory and was , in his own way , a type-specimen of Atlantic man , with no known connections with the new Ocean , had somehow fetched up on a remote Pacific island — was disturbing the entire thesis I wished to construct . |
| 23 | Of the two European companies that did become members , Méliès had built its fortunes around the genius of one innovative filmmaker , whereas Pathé had deliberately set out on an internationalist path , making films not only in France but also in Britain , the US , Italy , Germany , Russia and Japan . |
| 24 | Three women flashed the route : Isabelle Patissier , Susi Good and Robyn Erbesfield , all three of whom had also topped out on the previous two routes . |
| 25 | And the fact that quite a lot of people had n't turned up on a certain day or that sort of thing . |
| 26 | After a couple of hours , Zeno had simply lain down on the floor and gone to sleep . |
| 27 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 28 | IF you ever lost track of time you would know it was Christmas from the barrage of sickly singles pumped out to cash in on the season of goodwill . |
| 29 | Hovering , Ace considered where to touch down on the surface below . |