Example sentences of "right [noun sg] rest on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each girl sat on her three-legged stool as she milked , her right cheek resting on the cow 's body , watching Tess arrive . |
| 2 | Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig 's plan for the British attack in Flanders was to break through the German line from the Ypres salient and then encircle the German right flank resting on the North Sea coast . |
| 3 | He paused as he always did at the foot of the stairs , his left hand holding the lamp , his right hand resting on the banisters . |
| 4 | His gauntleted right hand rested on the gimballed firing handle . |
| 5 | The back of the right hand rests on the hip ; the left , lost or restored , certainly held an upright sceptre . |