Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nadobenko , although a previous stage winner , had started the final stage almost seven minutes down on Lillywhite overall . |
| 2 | Once level with deserted stone croft down on left , take small gate on left ( the second passed ) down to croft ( d ) , by which turn right on track and follow for 2 miles ( e ) . |
| 3 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 4 | Halve artichokes lengthways and place cut side down on absorbent paper . |
| 5 | Sometimes even junior Libyan officials dug their heels in on particular points of practical application of rules , and rejected all attempts by their colleagues and superiors to persuade , cajole , order , bully them into expediting business . |
| 6 | ITN 's News at Ten homes in on Big Ben as if it were the only part of London that mattered . |
| 7 | AIDS hunt homes in on Haitian pigs |
| 8 | Though I seen partridge up on Cocky Down . ’ |
| 9 | By now , the essential bloodline of the new novel has been tolerably well-advertised , and it shows Mailer back on combative form . |
| 10 | The DOCE was set up five years ago to provide up-to-date information for both teachers and pupils in secondary education , and originally sent data out on floppy . |
| 11 | With pie diagrams indicating that the major pop consumers are the staid , over-25s , the development in the ad industry of ‘ psychogeographics ’ ( the science of using pop to home in on specific taste publics — i.e. Springsteen fans are likely to desire different products from Whitney Houston fans ) , and the construction of bands in the studio , pop has never required less urgently a rush of theory from the ‘ left ’ . |
| 12 | We always get lots of punters in on New Year 's Eve . |
| 13 | But whereas Futurism had been to a large extent aimed at and against Paris and Parisian painting , the Germans were content to remain on the receiving end of things and their work , in the pre-war years at least , had little or no influence back on French art . |
| 14 | He countered by leaving other articles around on pre-menstrual tension . |
| 15 | Left along road ( ignore signpost after 200 yds for footpath to Glen Coe ( a ) ) for 300 yds , then across road-bridge , then turn left ( no path ) and follow contour of hill round , with stream down on left . |
| 16 | PPL cracks down on illegal music |
| 17 | I 'm sure it 's twenty six weeks off on full pay and then you go on |
| 18 | ‘ When it 's really flaming away and it 's the wood burning and not the Paraffin , then you put the lid back on loose , It may be that you 've over-filled , which is fine . |
| 19 | In 1645 , after a brief interval back on parliamentary committees , he was sent to Ireland with his regiment and named governor of county Louth and of Dundalk and a commissioner for Ireland . |
| 20 | Good old Nick , I thought , now I 've got my old job back on direct account of him . |
| 21 | For this reason you should take young dogs out on various journeys , and not just when they are going for a walk . |
| 22 | There will also be a 25pc discount on repair and contract work and 20pc cash back on flood-damaged white goods . |
| 23 | ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years . |
| 24 | Dully punching Lucy 's old number , slamming the phone down on unattainable . |
| 25 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 26 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 27 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 28 | As a precursor to the mayhem which was about to follow at 3.35 pm Mark James had put the Europeans back on level terms when he defeated Mark O'Meara 3 & 2 . |
| 29 | We have six really tough games in a row — Norwich , Arsenal , Newcastle , QPR , Scum & Villa — probably six of the best teams around on current form . |
| 30 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |