Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] on a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 2 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 3 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 4 | Luib had laid Madra down on a faded red couch . |
| 5 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 6 | ‘ I made her face the truth , ’ he grated , laying Isabel down on a bench by the door . |
| 7 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |
| 8 | A video image of Dale Kunzler , 10 , from Todmorden , West Yorkshire , is projected upside down on a screen behind him during a video workshop at the ‘ Let's Make A Film ’ Festival held at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television in Bradford at the weekend . |
| 9 | 3 Put a large transparent plastic container ( e.g. a used ice-cream carton ) upside down on a corner of a garden-bed or lawn . |
| 10 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 11 | The butler placed the tray down on a table close to Mr Lee and with infinite care poured the tea . |
| 12 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 13 | We 'd tak da boat in on a flowin tide , |
| 14 | Remove any damaged outer leaves from the lettuce , cut it in half , then place cut side down on a board and thinly shred each half , using a sharp knife . |
| 15 | I mean , like you say , if we could put five thousand pound down on a car we 'd have |
| 16 | An earthquake in Mexico will be reported more or less the same by each , but what about the Labour Party Conference or a murder down on a Devon farm ? |
| 17 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 18 | In desperation he faked a dive and hauled the SE up on a tight loop . |
| 19 | But at least it had the effect of setting Lucy 's mind back on a more even keel , and she worked steadily until she was disturbed by Doreen sweeping into the office . |
| 20 | So I drive back , pig out on a hi-cal breakfast , devour Sunday paper trash , wander home , hug the pillow you lay on , find a blonde hair or two , grin like an idiot , realise my hangover 's gone , work like a trooper all afternoon , sip a little brandy come early evening , and raise my glass to your very good health . |
| 21 | Fair trial for fibre Geoff Hamilton scrutinises the newest cocofibre trials , and shells out on a cocoa shell mulch his lime-hating plants will love . |
| 22 | Outside its base SVR4.0 kernel activities , UI is still hard at work on on a microkernel version of Unix , which will it hopes will broaden the attraction of Unix to the telecommunications market for example , with its embrace of real-time and parallel systems . |
| 23 | For the next few months Mr and I are going to home in on a theme for these services . |
| 24 | and there 's not any reason why once your in you canne put another couple of lines in , and you can even put a couple of lines in on a different number if you want |
| 25 | Quiss walked over to a large range of working surfaces , hotplates , sinks and racks ; he sat the scullion down on a flat surface only for steam to issue suddenly from its rear ; it squawked and jumped up . |
| 26 | ‘ No wonder there is no man in your life , ’ he said , slamming the snifter down on a table-top . |
| 27 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 28 | He put the milk bottles down on a small table in the hall , where they were to remain until Ianthe left , and as far as she knew , for ever after . |
| 29 | If he did n't , some clever lawyer would get the boy off on a technicality . |
| 30 | RECORD-BREAKER Colin Clarke set Northern Ireland off on a World Cup romp in Belfast last night . |