Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 2 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 3 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 4 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 5 | Clearing slips are collected by LIFFE officials and the details entered on to a computerized matching system . |
| 6 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 7 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 8 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 9 | The pool is lowered on to a prepared crushed gravel base , immediately filled with water , and at the same time , a gravel back-fill is poured in between the pool and the soil . |
| 10 | Six metal beer kegs loaded on to a Swiss bound goods train which had stopped at Strasbourg on the same day the vagrant had claimed to be there . |