Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 61 | Quietly , humbly , Cameron took off his headset and set it down on the floor . |
| 62 | I carried a tray across and set it down on the table in the window . |
| 63 | He emptied his cup and set it down on the table . |
| 64 | Taking a cooking bowl from the side he part filled it from the water jar and set it down on the ring . |
| 65 | Curval took out the slide — it seemed not as carefully as before — and set it down on the table beside him . |
| 66 | She jumped up and thrust him down on the seat , holding his shoulders . |
| 67 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 68 | He took the tins of food through to the lean-to and piled them up on the draining board . |
| 69 | He has , to switch metaphors , grabbed by the throat the Tories ' controversial team of young election campaign advisers , shaken them vigorously , and hung them up on the nearest meat hook . |
| 70 | Let's have a sit down , ’ Otley suggested taking off his camouflage jacket and spreading it out on the grass . |
| 71 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 72 | His wife packed a box with various goodies for Leonora to take to Penry , then walked with them to the jetty , and waved them off on the Sea-Fret , a sturdy fishing-boat a lot newer than Penry 's . |
| 73 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 74 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 75 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 76 | This allows you to conveniently plan your purchases and gives you time to paint the models and try them out on the tabletop before deciding what to add next . |
| 77 | You could cut me in a thousand pieces and lay them out on the street . |
| 78 | So , get the local sheet of the 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey and lay it out on the table . |
| 79 | Caroline stared at him , then shook her head wearily and lay it back on the seat . |
| 80 | Gooch had a bowl , but it was an hour before the next casualty , Akram sparing Salim Malik in a misunderstanding over a third run and taking himself off on the sad trek back to the redbrick pavilion . |
| 81 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 82 | He picked up his glasses and rubbed them up on the tablecloth . |
| 83 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 84 | A lot of people may like you , but it can be more useful to know a smaller , selective number — like the managing director 's secretary , for instance , who 's been with the company twenty-five years , and who loves to chat and fill you in on the history . |
| 85 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 86 | If you were to read the box of the Polyfilter , you would probably smile and put it back on the shelf — do n't . |
| 87 | She was surprised to find that she was not at all self-conscious with him and she moved to nestle comfortably against him when he rolled away from her and propped himself up on the pillows . |
| 88 | The customs officers were very understanding and found a mirror and propped it up on the customs bench for her . |
| 89 | I think what radical feminism has done is popularised that and taken it out on the streets and provided a core of anger and rage and has mobilized women . |
| 90 | My hon. Friend the Member for Westminster , North characteristically set the record straight about manpower allocations in the police force and about the critical role of Her Majesty 's chief inspector of constabulary in objectively advising the Home Secretary on correct force levels and on the identification of posts suitable for civilianisation — for that releases policemen and women from desk jobs and puts them back on the beat , which is what the right hon. and learned Member for Warley , West wants . |