Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bank of Italy clamped down on monetary policy in 1963 , generating a major recession in 1964–5 . |
| 2 | Like our poor parliamentary candidate , I would have no chance of being elected , but it would be a beginning , though perhaps one I would have despised several years earlier when I looked down on parish-pump politics and intended to be the first woman prime minister . |
| 3 | He walked slowly , however , to make the journey as long as possible , and put her down on dry land . |
| 4 | That is , there was work going on everywhere , but the noise of it was dispersed in the mild cloudy air , no longer staring blue , with the brassy sun striking down on dry earth . |
| 5 | According to its findings , the GDP for the region rose by a mere 1.1 per cent in 1989 in real terms , 9 per cent down on 1980 growth ; and per capita production fell , for the second consecutive year , by 1 per cent to 1978 levels . |
| 6 | For Louis , Antoinette had kicked off her buttoned high-heeled shoes by the wine racks and lain down on gritty sand . |
| 7 | I put them down on that floor . |
| 8 | What I would n't give , I thought , to be able to lie down on that bed , just for a minute . |
| 9 | In my imagination , I was going to pick you up in a fury of emotion , toss you down on that bed — ’ |
| 10 | Tailors in 1814 were very much on a level in terms of real wages with 1795 , but in the intervening years had been significantly down on that level in eight years , and very seriously below it in 1800 and 1801 when their weekly wage would buy only half the quantity of bread it had purchased from 1777 to 1795 . |
| 11 | I 'll come down on that day and pick it up from you at 2pm . |
| 12 | So Ariel kept vigil as the night came down on that day nearly four hundred years ago , when everything changed for them . |
| 13 | Cos I ca n't put Simon 's name down on that bottom of the form . |
| 14 | The Scottish Mountaineering Club 's Munros book had warned of a false summit cairn , and if I had longed to see the view from Beinn Dorain , and look down on that road from which the young Gray had gazed upwards 25 years ago , I was going to be disappointed unless the mist lifted . |
| 15 | Good horses they bred down on that road you know . |
| 16 | I went running and I went running and I the relief of sitting down on that toilet and going you know you know when your completely busting and then it 's the relief |
| 17 | You er add name down on that paper , cos you 'll forget if you do n't |
| 18 | On the way down on that stretch of road from death one to death two I call them , the roundabouts I suddenly realised if we were going to have a rehearsal we needed to have a bouquet of flowers did n't we so I leapt out of the car picked some weeds tied them up with a piece of strong so that the chap of our staff who was going to be in front of me was going to hold them during the rehearsal whilst I dashed up to play first of all the Lord Provost and then the Queen or the Lady Provost as she then was . |
| 19 | And then , on the verge of sleep , she was crashing with him through the bushes of that dreadful wood , feeling the briars scratching her legs , the low twigs whipping against her cheeks , staring with him as the pool of light from the torch shone down on that grotesque and mutilated face . |
| 20 | did you actually put down on that form ? |
| 21 | I touched down on that planet during my homing , and all that remains of that great civilization , dear friends , are mountains of empty drink cans and a carpet of potato-chip packets . |
| 22 | He said there had been a remarkable change in attitudes over the last few years in which those people still in work were determined not to give up their annual break , although they were being forced to cut down on other spending . |
| 23 | When I saw them again I dropped down on one knee , knowing that even though they were constantly looking back they would n't see me at that low level , in my nature-coloured clothes . |
| 24 | He ducked down on one knee and said to himself , ‘ Sasaki , gambare ! |
| 25 | The beautiful thing in that room was Maud Bailey herself , who went down on one knee very gracefully to plug in a kettle , and produced from a cupboard two blue and white Japanese mugs . |
| 26 | Luke went down on one knee . |
| 27 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 28 | down on one knee , |
| 29 | One of the few senior aides in the confidence of the couple admits it is unlikely Tim bent down on one knee to pop the question . |
| 30 | HOLLYWOOD would go down on one knee for the exclusive rights to Saturday 's England fly-half qualifier at Gloucester between Rob Andrew and Stuart Barnes . |