Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun pl] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 2 | The chestnut-seller laid out the chestnuts on the grating to cool and then brought them over to Owen and Georgiades . |
| 3 | So he pulled up the brakes on the reindeer |
| 4 | The barmaid rang up the drinks on the till and then pocketed all of the change . |
| 5 | With that beat I needed a really stomping guitar line to go with it so I worked it through in my head and then worked out the chords on the piano . |
| 6 | The wretched towns of lower Aragon , detested by liberal soldiers , became strongholds of Carlism and it was the desolation of decaying artisan towns that set off the polemics on the effectiveness of ecclesiastical charity . |