Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went into the village of that 's right , we went to , saw the signpost for Bray , they said , when you come al , along the road , erm you 'll find a signpost before the motorway , er , sign for the motorway on yo , to , to , to Bray . |
| 2 | Glue the fabric for the bow on to a small piece of card , cut out and attach to the bear 's neck by gluing the centre of the bow only . |
| 3 | So much for the talk on with the race … the mountain bikers hit the road first … 144 set off from the start in the centre of town … |
| 4 | Basing his research for the book on over 100 interviews , Canon Elvy concludes that one of the major stumbling blocks for Christian broadcasting in Europe is that ‘ Christians in the European media are suffering from a lack of questions ’ . |
| 5 | As the dust spun slowly down through the sunlight on to Miss Harker 's silent form , he waited patiently at her elbow like a wizened monkey whose master , the organ-grinder , has fallen asleep and forgotten to start the music . |
| 6 | It was some time after ten o'clock that I strolled through the gate on to the terrace . |
| 7 | Charles wandered through the door on to the stage , and found even more evidence . |
| 8 | Aggie turned a scornful glance on Ben , then pushed the cart through the gateway on to the road . |
| 9 | Now when Simon saw that the spirit was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them much money , saying , give this authority to me as well , so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | Now when Simon saw was bestowed through the laying on of the apostles hands , he offered them money saying , give this authority to me as well so that everyone on whom I lay my hands may receive the Holy Spirit . |
| 11 | Clarke had also seemed fortunate not to concede a penalty when he wrapped his legs round Wallace 's as the Leeds striker broke clear through the middle on to Strachan 's clever return pass after only 16 minutes . |
| 12 | The strong-running midfielder burst through the middle on to Ray Houghton 's superb ball , rounded goalkeeper Bryan Gunn and then steadied himself to shoot from six yards . |
| 13 | A plastic mould of 6 mm diameter was applied tightly to the serosal surface of the anterior wall of the stomach just proximal to the antral gland area and 70 µl 100% acetic acid was poured through the mould on to the surface of the stomach for 20 seconds . |
| 14 | Everything was dark except for a single patch where the moon shone through the skylight on to the wall . |
| 15 | When he refused , Mr Reynolds climbed off the engine and watched it fall through the bridge on to the car , steam and smoke erupting from the cab as it did so . |
| 16 | Nails climbed through the fence on to the railway line . |
| 17 | A door slammed , footsteps approached , and Dieter Erdle walked through the archway on to the terrace . |
| 18 | Come out through the bell , back through the bell on to there and back to there |
| 19 | An object can not be seen unless light reflected from it passes through the eye on to the retina and the brain receives the impulses transmitted from the retina via the optic nerve . |
| 20 | She , too , was looking through the netting on to the court . |
| 21 | We turned north , away from the mountain , then off the highway on to a dirt road that soon became sand . |
| 22 | He knew that when they built the Jubilee Line they had had to put in a big fan shaft here to release the air or passengers might have been blown off the platform on to the line . |
| 23 | The jeep reached the River Orne and we turned off the road on to a narrow path just wide enough for the jeep . |
| 24 | I 've always ridden bikes off the road on to trails to get far into the heart of the country , but they were big , creaky , clanking old things that had to have a puncture repaired every 20 minutes . |
| 25 | We had driven back to the village and had just turned off the road on to the In Salah track . |
| 26 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 27 | ‘ Oh , be quiet , do , you stupid dog ! ’ scolded the housekeeper , slapping the animal smartly on his nose so that he leapt back down off the bed on to which he had just jumped . |
| 28 | Perhaps it was the force , but the doll fell to its side , hit the wall , and then rolled off the shelf on to the floor . |
| 29 | He stepped meaningfully off the shadow on to a patch of sunlight . |
| 30 | The seas smashed into his back , wind and water clubbed him off the seat on to the cockpit sole . |