Example sentences of "on [pron] [adj] [noun] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I then lay down , and pillowing my head on my left arm placed the rifle on the ground with my finger on the trigger . |
| 2 | I tried to do the same , and in between sailing my own boat and the occasional cutter duty managed to concentrate enough on my proper job to pass a promotion examination in 1956 . |
| 3 | The organization is heavily overspent , and is drawing on its working capital to finance the next meeting at its Yokohama , Japan , headquarters in November . |
| 4 | On its eastern side stands the grand Pabellón Real ( Royal Pavilion ) , facing the Ayuntamiento . |
| 5 | Enhancing the Carlton 's diminutive appearance still further is some very Stratocaster-like chamfering on its upper side to produce the familiar contouring beloved of rib cages and right-hand forearms everywhere . |
| 6 | This is small , delightful , and richly historical , perched high enough up on its fertile hillside to dominate the valley to both north and south . |
| 7 | Time and again the images have a distilled beauty : the simple two-shot before the battle in which Krishna explains to the warrior Arjuna that ‘ Victory and defeat , pleasure and pain are all the same ’ , the sight of the nagaswaram ( the shawm-like musical instruments ) echoing their peals to the skies , Karna 's golden lance speeding through the air on its momentous flight to pierce the green-bellied Ghatotkatcha . |
| 8 | The organisation claims that desulphurisation plans have been cut to suit the newly privatised power industry and that the department had reneged on its original agreement to desulphurise a further two power stations . |
| 9 | For while Schopenhauer gave music a gratifyingly important role within his scheme of things , the music on which he based his theories was primarily the formally respectable tradition that he saw represented in Haydn and Mozart ; and the importance he gave to music turned to a large extent on its supposed capacity to foster the right — dispassionate and otherworldly — response . |
| 10 | Prof Pierotti also has doubts about the second phase — using 600 tons of lead weights under the base of the tower on its northern side to prevent the angle of incline growing . |
| 11 | Critics accused the government of giving way to pressure from industrialists and exporters and of reneging on its formal commitment to allow the full discipline of the market to make domestic companies more efficient and competitive . |
| 12 | Cornelius observed that a beauty spot on her right thigh resembled the Isle of Lyonesse . |
| 13 | Nightingale skittered into the room , a can of polish in her hand , on her chirpy way to answer the door . |
| 14 | Style Academy Director Tracey Hall , who spotted Sarah 's potential immediately , capitalised on her light tan to create a very natural look , with emphasis on dark eyes , and pale lips . |
| 15 | Certainly , the polyps on their long stalks provide a certain amount of cover for the fish , but without the strong stings that protect clownfish in anemones . |
| 16 | The three leading Belgian dailies simply reproduced our Page One on their front pages to tell the story of ‘ Fergie and Johnny ’ . |
| 17 | Meanwhile Conservative councillors have rounded on their Labour opponents saying the latest announcements will lead to complete chaos in the town centre . |
| 18 | Belfast 's Roy Blackstock and Lorraine Aiken took the Latin American title and on their displayed form have a freewheeling , downhill run home to yet another All-Ireland title . |
| 19 | Although he was never able , despite his ‘ utmost endeavours ’ , to find the actual nest and eggs of the satin bower-birds , the new light he was able to throw on their bower-building habits caused a considerable stir back in England . |
| 20 | Like the wooden chancel rail on which countless hands awaiting the sacrament had laid a patina , and the memorial stones in the floor of the aisle worn smooth over the centuries , the very fabric of the building seemed to have distilled and preserved some essence of generations of worshippers . |
| 21 | The price of bread cereals , on which labouring families spent a vast proportion of their wages , fluctuated wildly . |
| 22 | BROTHER are now also the subject of a BBC2 Open Space documentary on Dec 9 , featuring artists like the Cookie Crew , Demon Boyz and Rebel MC , on whose Tribal Bass label the record is released . |
| 23 | The obsessive vision that propels and sustains Birdy on his long night has a once-in-a-lifetime quality about it , a quirkiness that does not augur well for a successor … |
| 24 | Wary of causing further commotion , Jack said OK and found to his astonishment at the end of the service that the question had not been ‘ Do ye want a lift ? ’ at all — not at all , at all as they say in the Emerald Isle — but ‘ Do ye want to lift ? ’ , and as he staggered along on his then-arthritic hip bearing the coffin with five other pall-bearers , he kind of wished he 'd stuck to ‘ No thank you , I 'll walk . ’ |
| 25 | His husky moan of arousal as she placed her hands on his warm chest shattered the last remnants of any uncertainty she might have felt , and her arms closed about him as she revelled in the hard pressure of Ross 's body , the slight roughness of his masculine jaw as her silk gown was torn away and he pressed his burning lips to the soft , fragrant valley between her full breasts . |
| 26 | Previous work centred on his adopted Gloucestershire encouraged the city boy gone west to expand his ideas |
| 27 | Hemmings op : Former England off-spinner Eddie Hemmings has had a minor operation on his right knee to remove a piece of cartilage . |
| 28 | The one who wore on his blue shoulder flash the insignia of major 's rank had shaken his hand and grinned a supercilious smile . |
| 29 | By calling on his fellow socialists to perform the equivalent of a collective hara-kiri , he paradoxically appears to have given them back hope of a new life at the moment of their deepest despair . |
| 30 | An umpire told me : ‘ What 's happened to Don was no reflection on his unswerving attempt to get the truth told over everything that went on at Lord 's . |