Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun sg] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 2 | SHe snorted smoke and ground out the cigarette on the floor . |
| 3 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 4 | ‘ Do n't be so silly , ’ came back the answer on the crest of a belch . |
| 5 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 6 | That inquiry turned down the application on the grounds that the mink farmers could not guarantee that mink would not escape . |
| 7 | The Civic Society was naturally very pleased t that we the council turned down the application on the National Power site . |
| 8 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 9 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 10 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |
| 11 | It is as if surveyors had worked out what they were going to do and then laid out the plan on the landscape , ignoring the difficult topography of the area . |
| 12 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 13 | As he switched on the torchlight on the dashboard and began to study the Glory 's manual , Jack again thought of Tina 's angry reaction to the idea that the Ram and Shepherd names might be linked . |
| 14 | Donna had managed to disguise the worst of the bruising on her top lip beneath some foundation cream and a little rouge had given at least some artificial colour to her cheeks , but as she pulled down the sun-visor on the driver 's side and peered into the mirror she realized she looked as tired as she felt . |
| 15 | We scrambled up the hillside on the left bank of an enormous river which thundered down a precipitous cascade of rapids into a foaming cauldron , raging with wind-whipped mist . |
| 16 | He crossed the room , pulled back the arras on the far wall and went into his own secret chamber . |
| 17 | As he did the actual stitching , Shelley took over the grip on the tourniquet , until the skin was pulled together , and she was able to give the whole area a good wipe of iodine , before putting a clean dry dressing on the hand . |
| 18 | But Pubmaster quickly took over the lease on the Greenside to ensure an early re-opening . |
| 19 | Only occasionally was there any doubt that they would win , however , particularly as David Phillips , who took over the kicking on the early retirement of Brian Bolderson , kicked only one of four penalty chances for Newport . |
| 20 | The biggest concern of the executioner , a man named Billington , was that the now quivering bulk of a fifteen stone woman would snap her head off as the rope took up the slack on the trip through the trapdoor . |
| 21 | She rolled out the towel on the table , revealing two scissors she turned back to Patrick , looking critically at his hair . |
| 22 | We took out the 1-iron on the tee . |
| 23 | Rachaela took the card , opened her bag , and put down the money on the smeary table . |
| 24 | He put down the tray on the floor , and brought out her cap from the pocket in his coat into which he had stuffed it , saying , however , ‘ Let go your hair or I do n't return it . ’ |
| 25 | And when , in the evening , the restaurant was busy again , Tildy put down the food on the tables and said quietly , ‘ Do you know what a man in the restaurant did to me today ? |
| 26 | He carried out the raid on the night of 24 December and would have taken at least three days to return to Jalo . |
| 27 | He picked up the ball on the edge of his penalty area , pushed it to Ricky McAvoy who laid on the chance for McCallan to drill his shot past Wesley Lamont . |
| 28 | In the sixty fourth minute , Pedro Herbert restored the home side 's lead when he picked up the ball on the break and side footed it past keeper Cummings , to make it two one to Harefield . |
| 29 | The Sheikh motioned us to sit down , left his men outside , and picked up the phone on the table . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'll be in touch so that we can arrange for C.W. to meet your men before Mobuto arrives tonight , ’ Kolchinsky said then picked up the transmitter on the desk and activated the door . |