Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ In the morning they found him dead , face down on a bare spot , not far from the town . |
| 32 | At the agreed hour I reported to the Endoscopy Unit of the London Clinic , was shown into a small room , told to undress and put on a blue shift , then lie down on a mobile bed . |
| 33 | There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges . |
| 34 | He sat down on a tiny painted nursery chair beside the bed . |
| 35 | In an allegedly animal-friendly society , where the rules for pets in public places are generally blurred and often very bad , it 's pleasing to put your head down on a strange pillow knowing your pet is just a pat away . |
| 36 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 37 | Hm , I said , sitting down on a split rexine tuffet . |
| 38 | Both men were expelled ‘ for gross political mistakes in tackling social tension , especially the events of November 17 , 1989 ’ , when police clamped down on a pro-democracy demonstration . |
| 39 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 40 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 41 | He continued : ‘ With criminal trespass , all they can do is go down on a daily basis and charge people . |
| 42 | If standard steps are followed on each occasion , it should be easier to prevent mistakes occurring and ensure that the terms are incorporated into all contracts ; in addition , if the normal procedures do break down on a particular occasion , it may be possible to rely on the previous course of dealing . |
| 43 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 44 | An article in the February/March 1992 issue describes the technique of ‘ breadboarding ’ where all components are assembled and screwed down on a thick board and straight lines around the board . |
| 45 | Kate puts her suitcase down on a green plastic-covered pouffe and gapes . |
| 46 | Sally-Anne sat down on a wooden bench , the trug at her feet , and drowsed a little in the sun . |
| 47 | She knew she should reply with some light-hearted quip which would set everything down on a matter-of-fact level and make her meaning plain , but quips were beyond her . |
| 48 | With an intensity comparable to the devastating bombardment of February 21st , the heavy German shells rained down on a French division of mediocre calibre , the 67th , whose experience of this kind of thing had so far been limited to second-hand accounts from across the river . |
| 49 | The journalists claim in ‘ Ambush : The War Between The SAS and the IRA ’ that the SAS man drove a lorry identical to the ex-UDR man 's and pretended to break down on a lonely Tyrone road . |
| 50 | Someone else came into the room and sat down on a plain wooden chair to watch him struggle . |
| 51 | ‘ When , one month after German monetary union , East Germany 's state run economy showed signs of breaking down on a massive scale , Chancellor Kohl … called in the top bankers of the land . |
| 52 | Then the heavy cloud began to break up and the pearly rays of the morning sun beamed down on a spume-streaked sea that glistened in shades of emerald and jade . |
| 53 | Its prime target is an audience of decision makers whose names you can write down on a single sheet of paper . |
| 54 | The evolution of integrated circuit technology has been such that you 've been progressively able to put more and more transistors down on a single integrated circuit , and so a microprocessor has got more and more powerful with the passage of time . |
| 55 | Julia sat down on a hard chair beside the child . |
| 56 | He sat down on a hard kitchen chair and stared hopefully up at Coffin . |
| 57 | Do you find that when you 're sitting down on a hard floor and you stand up yeah and your arse hurts for about half an hour ? |
| 58 | So they sat down on a big , flat , comfortable stone in the grass . |
| 59 | I could see green sleet falling straight down on a big green ambulance backed up our drive . |
| 60 | She found a jasmine-scented corner of garden at the side of the house and sat down on a rustic wooden seat , watching twittering birds come and go fearlessly around a hanging seed basket . |