Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on a [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 2 | Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have asked me to draw your attention to a satellite dish erected recently on a house in Station Lane . |
| 3 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 4 | I got up on a bench in the middle of the market and we were soon surrounded . |
| 5 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in showbusiness . |
| 6 | Les Dennis has been presenting ITV 's top game show for seven years and was just 14 years old when he started out on a career in show business . |
| 7 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 8 | In 1980 it showed the greatest tendency to revitalise and performed averagely on a decline in deprivation index . |
| 9 | Luch slept quietly on a pallet in the corner , her sore arm bandaged , her baby tucked safe beside her . |
| 10 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 11 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 12 | Half an hour later I stopped the car , got out , sat down on a bank in an empty green world and admitted to myself that I was lost . |
| 13 | He ended up on a drip in the Princess Margaret hospital . |
| 14 | POLICE believe a body washed up on a beach in Kent might be that of a young Essex woman who has been missing for two months . |
| 15 | Airdrie , who missed out on a place in the Skol Cup final after a penalty shoot-out , followed Liverpool by taking that same route to the Scottish Cup final . |
| 16 | Hilary was too young for that , and sat instead on a swing in the front garden of the Headmaster 's House , watching the secondary-modern-school pupils flock by to their separate schools . |