Example sentences of "[prep] [subord] on [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth had frequently sicked up her bottle milk , as if on purpose , like the endless stinking miasmas of the wet nappies . |
| 2 | It is almost impossible to stand up , and you haul yourself from building to building , from stanchion to stanchion as if on board a ship rounding the Horn in a nor'wester . |
| 3 | Behind her , as if on cue , the ice heart started to melt . |
| 4 | as if on cue , a cistern flushed and the door of one of the WC cubicles opened to reveal the emerging figure of George Prendergast , the Personnel Director . |
| 5 | And as if on cue in rolled a Chalmers Mace supply van . |
| 6 | Here the land is flat and fertile like Ayrshire and as if on cue a herd of Ayrshire cows obliged by ambling by Loch Watten . |
| 7 | And as if on cue , reports have just come in of tracks and sightings of live rhinos in two Sumatran reserves — Way Kambas and Berbak Game Reserve in Jambi — where they were believed extinct . |
| 8 | as if on cue , Spatz arrived , Ellis , his assistant , trailing behind him , a thick stack of paper files under his arm . |
| 9 | as if on cue , they heard footsteps on the back stairs at that moment , and Tom himself entered the kitchen after crossing the back porch and knocking briefly at the door . |
| 10 | as if on cue , the car-phone gave a discreet purr to punctuate Tom 's passionate sentence , and he snatched it up as he braked at traffic-lights which had just turned red . |
| 11 | And then — as if on cue — there came a knock on the door . |
| 12 | In the Annexe , as if on cue , a tune could be heard quite clearly . |
| 13 | as if on cue , the lights flickered then came back on . |
| 14 | as if on cue , Simon appeared , and not much later their hostess announced that lunch was ready . |
| 15 | Elsewhere you will hear a Black Eyes Etude ( Op. 10 No. 5 ) wickedly tinted and inflected despite the most vertiginous brilliance and rapidly of reflex , and an Aeolian Harp ( Op. 25 No. 1 ) where the melody glides across a harmonic haze as if on air cushions . |
| 16 | And there was a man at the door , standing as if on guard . |
| 17 | Two squadrons of Hessian hussars occupied the lower slopes of the Pratzen , drawn up in battle array , spotless as if on parade . |
| 18 | After the shopping Denis would sit in the orderly room , watching his father write in ledgers twice as wide and twenty times as thick as his school exercise-books , or he 'd gaze longingly at the Royal Irish Constabulary uniforms of his father 's colleagues with their shining buttons and belts hanging neatly from pegs on the wall , the caps , the spiked helmets and the little pill-box hats of the cavalry police lined up , as if on parade , on a table along with whistle-chains , handcuff-cases and batons . |
| 19 | They talked about everything but , mouths moving and laughing with no sound : Jay saw them now as if on film , now from inside her thrilling flesh , looking at Lucy , making her laugh , feeling the thick cream linen napkin , the solid edge of the table . |
| 20 | as if on command , the figure on the bed tugged off his hood . |
| 21 | The doors of the rooms were open and patterns of light slid imperceptibly down the landing walls , feeling their way , as if on tiptoe across the threshold . |
| 22 | Suddenly she switched on a yellow lamp that stood by her on the table and moved the snake-like stem so that Larry 's face was spotlighted as if on stage . |
| 23 | The sea seems vertical , the ships form a pattern as if on wallpaper . |
| 24 | An autocrat falls in the first two books ; but the only one in the third is the author-autocrat of the hotel room who sallies into the bush , as if on impulse , to visit the mysterious , moveable ‘ front ’ . |
| 25 | One moment we were stationary , the next sliding forward smoothly , the transition from rest to motion of a quarter of a mile of metal achieved as if on silk . |