Example sentences of "[pers pn] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the mental health commission , a body which monitors standards in mental hospitals , says in a report that at Coney Hill hospital patients were locked in the seclusion rooms for too long because there were n't enough staff to look after them properly on the wards . |
| 2 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 4 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 5 | He gets up , holding the thin sheets of paper in front of him , perhaps just a little further away from himself than he normally would , and puts them delicately on the desk in front of me . |
| 6 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 7 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 8 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 9 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 10 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 11 | It 's very good good erm good thing for the party and they 're usually quite starved of practical campaigning ideas and so we regularly try every at least every year to go and do a tour and erm we 've been giving them we we 're trying to rope them in on the various activities because they 're crying out for |
| 12 | DRAWING THEM IN ON THE WIRRAL |
| 13 | After making each man check that his own line was securely attached , he moved them to the far end of the cage and sat them down on the wooden bench . |
| 14 | She sat them down on the sofa . |
| 15 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 16 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 17 | Then in order to compare your expenditure against likely income , jot them down on the Budget Planner ( see pages 120–25 ) . |
| 18 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 19 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 20 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 21 | He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table . |
| 22 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 23 | He reached towards her with his strong hands and pressed them down on the fine-boned structure of her shoulders , massaging with rhythmic , kneading movements . |
| 24 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 25 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 26 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 27 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
| 28 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 29 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 30 | If you are using guitar machine heads ( far more easily adjusted than pegs , which also require special tools to fit them accurately ) it is more convenient to modify the shape of the head and fit them only on the left ( if you are right-handed ) in the manner of Fender guitars . |