Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] on the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I was a believer until about my fourteenth birthday , when I heard an Easter service on the radio . |
| 2 | I heard a light knock on the door . |
| 3 | Time to let the readers loose on the FESTIVE CAPTION CONTEST . |
| 4 | Advancing stealthily into the room , Grainne felt the hairs prickle on the back of her neck . |
| 5 | Fran let her eyes linger on the scarred red paintwork and shattered windows of her little Fiesta , then looked away with a sigh . |
| 6 | Out of curiosity , she let the light fall on the book doubled up under his elbow . |
| 7 | Poiana Brasov is a skier 's oasis in Romania just like the small glass balls that you turn upside down and watch the snow fall on the perfect setting . |
| 8 | How does the authority help schools decide on the relative emphasis they should give to particular aspects of the curriculum , especially the promotion of literacy and numeracy ? |
| 9 | Ruth let her eyes dwell on the forest . |
| 10 | In the last resort his conduct is in accord with ‘ Be aware ’ , because he would be acting the same if he were capable of full awareness both of the goal of saving life and of the temporary anguish he is inflicting , but being merely human he would lose sight of the goal if he let his mind dwell on the pain . |
| 11 | Where did that pleasure stand on the scale against the misery of a man in the Kitchen whose soup was spilled , whose bread was soggy from the floor 's snow water ? |
| 12 | That is true , but in this picture the golfer has n't lifted his head and is going to top by letting the right side straighten on the downswing or by getting too far ahead of the shot at impact . |
| 13 | Not until a paper published in 1910 does Freud settle on the term ‘ Oedipus complex ’ . |
| 14 | Its no use really having Rocky sit on the bench , or play in the reserves because Strach is fit . |
| 15 | Finally he felt her weight settle on the pillion seat . |
| 16 | ‘ What the fuck … ’ shouted McCann as he saw Hitch turn on the other two men . |
| 17 | Duncan felt the hairs rise on the back of his neck . |
| 18 | Tuan Ti Fo felt the hairs rise on the back of his neck . |
| 19 | D' ya remember going through this and what did the fella say on the phone , can you remember ? |
| 20 | The unique number , which must of course appear on the cost printout , will enable management to identify each individual docket but it may well be a laborious process to extract the costing details for one subsection of a project from the filing for the whole company . |
| 21 | Exhausted they lay side by side watching the flames dance on the ceiling . |
| 22 | Will the Chancellor comment on the recently published ’ Social Trends ’ , which shows that the income of the richest one fifth increased by more than 50 per cent . |
| 23 | Does the gaze fall on the impaired body or on social barriers ? |
| 24 | Some of you may need a ‘ recap ’ on how to make a motif appear on the garment the same way round as in the graph , or in reverse . |
| 25 | In addition to deciding whether such phenomena really are characteristic of some particular identifiable driving state further research is needed to decide a variety of questions , for example : Do such experiences depend on the driver being tired ? |
| 26 | The Russian 's arm collapsed , his hand hitting the deck , as Delaney smashed it again and again , feeling the bones crackle on the steel . |
| 27 | The 128 they made for the fifth wicket actually saw the visitors go on the defensive , although not for long . |
| 28 | Roxborough watched the stain spread on the pocket and start to travel along the jacket 's hem . |
| 29 | Encouraging a relaxed atmosphere , provision of toys , and letting the child sit on the potty in the middle of family activities can help establish positive attitudes to toileting . |
| 30 | Does it have a WYSIWYG mode or , to put it into English , does the user see on the screen exactly what he 'll get on the page ? |