Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 2 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 3 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 4 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 5 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 6 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 7 | Azmaveth did not argue but knelt down on the floor by the bed and laid out the silk square in front of her . |
| 8 | It is difficult to draw a line between a company car that is a pure perk and one used constantly on the job by a salesman or service engineer . |
| 9 | She sank down on the bed with the photograph gripped so tightly in her hands that the paper buckled . |
| 10 | With a small sigh that sounded distinctly apologetic , she sank down on the edge of the armchair opposite him . |
| 11 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 12 | To steady himself he sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 13 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 14 | Hari sank down on the bench beside him . |
| 15 | They peered down on the world like two eyes , one half-closed . |
| 16 | The philanthropist Helen Bosanquet drew eagerly on the work of the French sociologist Frederick Le Play to argue that the ‘ stable family ’ with its male breadwinner was ‘ the only known way of ensuring with any approach to success , that one generation will exert itself in the interests and for the sake of another ’ . |
| 17 | The sun beat down on the discomfort of the watchers , wondering if they were meant to clap or what . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | While he was supervising the preparation of his constitution and orchestrating its presentation to the people of France and the French Community , de Gaulle moved decisively on a number of other fronts , particularly economic and diplomatic . |
| 20 | Before lunch , Lord Donaldson pronounced further on the case of William Goodwin , 23-year-old journalist for The Engineer . |
| 21 | Before lunch , Lord Donaldson pronounced further on the case of William Goodwin , 23-year-old journalist for The Engineer . |
| 22 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 23 | Replacing the wallet , he produced a gold pen , scribbled quickly on the back of it and handed it to Lisa . |
| 24 | I do not know if elegans shares the interesting ‘ primitive ’ features of livingstonii — it is certainly quite similar in appearance — but if it does then perhaps we have here a group of fish descended from ancestors which stopped off on the way to the rocks , and which did not need to evolve the specialisations needed in the more-densely populated and competitive atmosphere of the rocky zones . |
| 25 | Beyond the moored boats and the fire we drew up on the bank for the night . |
| 26 | Crossing the last barrier , a narrow but fast-flowing river , the rebel army drew up on the plain of Samugarh a few miles from Agra . |
| 27 | Usually , but not always , this will be the result of a clogged trap or of grease built up on the inside of the waste branch pipe and is relatively easy to deal with . |
| 28 | The scientists reported also on the change in climate and the destruction of a flourishing fishing industry . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , a firm of mechanical engineers , Hunter and English of Bow , inspected the model and reported favourably on the proposal in March 1897 , for which service they were paid 100 guineas . |
| 30 | Our car conked out on the way to school . |