Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a habit of spitting into his hands and licking moisture on to his fingers while he worked . |
| 2 | Her fingers were gentle but firm , and he sprawled back on his elbows and watched her as she lifted his foot on to her lap and massaged all the tired muscles . |
| 3 | He made it without difficulty on to his raft , swinging it round to join the group he had noticed dropping away to his left ; and was overturned by a breaking wave . |
| 4 | Risk ran riot at La Cinq , which was finally switched off after being beaten by losses of more than £100m and shareholders ' refusal to throw any more good money on to its airwaves . |
| 5 | He dropped the pastry on to his plate , crushed the burning cigarette into the ashtray and lit another . |
| 6 | But I was n't there , and this is to your advantage because I 'm not going to harp on about my favourite Shankly saying , or pretend I was close friends with the man like certain people do . |
| 7 | I thought they could stick fish and weed on to their bits of tie dying , use the tie dying as a |
| 8 | If Westminster MPs are too haughty to consider a role for themselves as a junior revising chamber of the European Parliament and too short sighted to invite Strasbourg experts on to their own select committee on EC affairs , they , not the MEPs will be the eventual losers . |
| 9 | The sun shone through an elaborate crest of arms in coloured glass , with the lion of Venice rampant above a flurry of plumes and a Latin motto , the glass throwing dark Harlequin patterns on to his expressionless face . |
| 10 | Nor did the tide ebb once the horse was unsaddled : Jonjo O'Neill , having weighed in , hoisted the rejected Tony Mullins on to his shoulders , and the diminutive Mrs Hill was lifted into the air by the ecstatic mob . |
| 11 | Urueu-Wau-Wau indian leaders have said in a statement to Survival International that they can no longer tolerate the invasion of miners and loggers on to their land . |
| 12 | As we dance I find myself staring at the French girl — she has a very pretty face with long , dark hair on to her shoulders , slim build and about 5′ 2″ in height . |
| 13 | The fan overhead whirred softly , flickering strands of her black hair on to her sun-kissed shouders , the red sundress strappy and sexy . |
| 14 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 15 | But the woods were dank and damp , and every icy , unexpected drip on to her hair or down the back of her neck made her regret having left her umbrella behind long before she reached the tower . |
| 16 | Erika dressed soberly , too , although , in an uncharacteristic act of defiance , she pinned her F.G.Y. badge on to her lapel . |
| 17 | She squeezes again , and this time a great glob of Teint Naturel extrudes itself from the narrow aperture on to her middle finger . |
| 18 | Who makes a profit from cramming more climbers on to our cliffs ? |
| 19 | ‘ So you did , ’ he drawled smoothly , slipping the gold watch on to his bronzed wrist . |
| 20 | Robyn threw her napkin on to her plate , scraped back her chair and stood up . |
| 21 | The cases below demonstrate that adverse possession usually concerns either existing landowners who gradually add a bit on to their gardens ( " boundary cases " ) or city homeless ( the " threat to law and order " cases ) who resort to squatting as necessary for living as well as , perhaps , for ideological reasons . |
| 22 | ‘ He sure seems to have taken to you , ’ said Janine as she loaded another sack on to his saddle . |
| 23 | The female entices the male on to her territory with a wing-whirring display flight to advertise her presence . |
| 24 | They are put to sleep on their backs , being turned at times on to their sides in the belief that this will promote a culturally valued ‘ rounded ’ head . |
| 25 | If you 're desperately trying to speak to somebody and they 're out of the office , I do n't know , they 're just not there , you can camp on to their handset even though you just get ringing . |
| 26 | So it 's not engaged , but you can still camp on to their handset , basically the computer , tell them when it 's next used . |
| 27 | This was a shrewd move , which brought Edwin in on their side , and the demand was conceded . |
| 28 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 29 | Oxford crammed the midfield and brought keeper Paul Reece in for his first game of the season … he was made to work overtime as newly promoted Bolton chased their first league win … |
| 30 | ‘ The small clubs deliberately maintain bad pitches to bring the big clubs down to their level , ’ said Gilmar . |