Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [adv] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dog usually just stops dead or veers off on a different course . |
| 2 | Flower-fringed lakeside boulevards , places to stroll in the lake air , or sit quietly on a sunlit Bodensee afternoon , plentiful water sports , all proclaim modern resorts ; half-timbered houses proclaim the past . |
| 3 | ‘ I ca n't think or work properly on an empty stomach . ’ |
| 4 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 5 | Few , if any , Members of Parliament who voted , as I did more than once , for the abolition of the death penalty , can have failed to revolve in their minds many times since then both the reasons for their vote and what cause there might be to repent of it or to vote otherwise on a future occasion . |
| 6 | By the end of the project , evaluation of each new step was beginning to become second nature and exchange was deeper than pleasantries or focusing only on a specific child . |
| 7 | Before settling an agreement or starting out on a particular course of conduct , a number of fundamental factors have to be taken into consideration . |
| 8 | Bulkier things like sofas can be delivered or whisked away on a rented roof-rack . |
| 9 | Here at Club M'Diq you can either do your own thing or involve yourself in the daily and evening activities and events available for free ; you can lazy on the spacious sandy beach , or go off on the optional excursions to see something of what this colourful Moslem country has to offer . |
| 10 | Individual difficulties would be singled out for special treatment : ‘ When a passage went wrong during practice , she did n't mentally beat herself with a stick and get angry , merely went over it again , maybe more slowly or homed in on the particular difficulty that had tripped her up and worked on that . ’ |
| 11 | Training should be as specific as possible and so for karateka I recommend either shadow boxing against a mirror , or working out on a light punch bag . |
| 12 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 13 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 14 | Recently , it is said that the pair enjoyed ‘ an evening walk by the river ’ in the course of which ‘ they wandered deep in conversation , pausing only to kiss and cuddle tenderly on the deserted towpath . ’ |
| 15 | Van Gogh 's life has so often been made the subject of literary treatment that the art historian is strongly inclined to leave the biographical matter severely alone and concentrate exclusively on the artistic aspect . |
| 16 | Rosalba felt that if only she could stop blinking and concentrate totally on the sweet and grieving countenance of the Madonna of the Spasm , she would catch the fleeting flutter of her eyelids and twitch of her lips as she granted Rosa 's prayer . |
| 17 | At the end of the incubation period , the gel piece is transferred into a new plastic tray containing 300 ml of freshly made DMS-stop buffer ( 0.5 M β-mercaptoethanol , 150 mM Tris-HCl , pH 7.3 , 5 mM EDTA ) and shaken vigorously on a rocking platform for 10' at 37°C ( at this temperature DMS is rapidly hydrolysed accelerating its inactivation ) . |
| 18 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 19 | This can be steep , making progress forward difficult — you have to hold one wheel and push hard on the other just to stop yourself from rolling down it . |
| 20 | He ached with the fear that God was moving through the woods , coming nearer and nearer to him , a figure with a face he could not imagine , a shining shape , brushing past the respectful fern and pressing gently on the fallen twigs . |
| 21 | And yet these would be better able to be active and grow quickly on a limited food supply , particularly in a stable equable climate . |
| 22 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 23 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 24 | The research linked together the relevant data bases , and concentrated particularly on the statistical association between the UPA index for small areas ( and its component indicators ) and self-reported morbidity of residents of the small areas . |
| 25 | Wash and dry the can well , and place upright on a greased baking tray . |
| 26 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 27 | The technical process by which items are selected and tried out on a large group of children is referred to as the process of standardisation and the group of children is referred to as the standardisation sample . |
| 28 | Schwantz attacks a chicane — steering right , moving body weight left and pushing hard on the left footrest |
| 29 | Each session lasts approximately one hour and twenty minutes , and occurs initially on a weekly basis at the same time and place . |
| 30 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |