Example sentences of "a [noun] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 2 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 3 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 4 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 5 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |
| 6 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 7 | I 've had a radiator on in the front room . |
| 8 | As he scanned the laden shelves to left and right , there was suddenly a sound like a hundred ball-bearings being dropped from a height on to the bare floorboards . |
| 9 | That 's the Stamford Bridge in East Yorkshire not the one which gives David Mellor a stork on at the mere mention of the place . |
| 10 | Now a year on from the first rape , police are taking steps to protect women as the nights close in . |
| 11 | and a reel on in the musty dimness |
| 12 | It 's a step on from the orbital groove of their summer debut , ‘ Perfume ’ , and the crucial 12-inch features a housey cross-current lapping against Steven ‘ Toity ’ Tajti 's contagious keyboard hook , while the flip wheels out a straighter mix and an alternate take ( ‘ Scope Two ’ ) to ensure all-over body spasms . |
| 13 | It 's a step on from the orbital groove of their summer debut , ‘ Perfume ’ , and the crucial 12-inch features a housey cross-current lapping against Steven ‘ Toity ’ Tajti 's contagious keyboard hook , while the flip wheels out a straighter mix and an alternate take ( ‘ Scope Two ’ ) to ensure all-over body spasms . |