Example sentences of "[adv prt] on an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Agnes smiled and put her cup carefully down on an uneven surface of Der Spiegels and Encounters . |
| 2 | From a height of 90 metres one looks down on an emerging pattern of roads , lakes and gardens , which will shortly be lined with pavilions from over a hundred countries . |
| 3 | Lord Hulton , in high good humour , settled down On an upturned oil drum with my testing book on his knee . |
| 4 | Yawning , not hiding it , them an sat down on an ancient easy chair on one side of the dead fireplace . |
| 5 | Cabochon sat down on an empty couch . |
| 6 | The hammer finally slammed down on an empty chamber . |
| 7 | Two czarist officers , bulky in their comic-opera uniforms , solemnly played Russian roulette , each downing a drink every time the firing pin of their revolver came down on an empty chamber . |
| 8 | In sitting down on an antique bench in the locker-room , the Welsh teenager had been lanced by a wooden splinter . |
| 9 | Mrs Mallory sat down on an upright , wooden chair . |
| 10 | The guy who let us in flops down on an old divan . |
| 11 | HUNDREDS of Ulster 's birds of prey are at risk from thieves cashing in on an illegal money-spinning international market . |
| 12 | In the late afternoon , slow to go home , he dropped in on an elderly doctor friend and played tennis . |
| 13 | This could offset feed lost to opportunistic wildlife cashing in on an easy meal ! |
| 14 | We had barged in on an 18-day course on Bioregionalism at Schumacher College , in the Old Postern at Dartington , conducted by Kirkpatrick Sale . |
| 15 | Dear Harsnet , he wrote , the distance between London and Brighton is not very great , and you have even been seen in the vicinity of Brighton , so why not call in on an old friend ? |
| 16 | ‘ It is so good of you to look in on an old invalid when you must be so very busy at the office — what with the Dean 's compost heap yielding such unwholesome remains . ’ |
| 17 | Put in on an unyielding wicket , Colwyn were heavily indebted to all-rounder Glyn Gibbons whose 26 not out averted total batting humiliation . |
| 18 | Three years ago , when Dixons was the bidder , the position was exactly the reverse : electrical retailers were cashing in on an unprecedented boom . |
| 19 | In reality it becomes almost impossible to find this amount in the budget , and projects have to limp along on an underfunded basis or with the overseas donor financing an increasing proportion of the total costs . |
| 20 | But now women are meant to go along on an even keel and when something upsets them they think tha e , I should n't be able to express this any more , so I 'll go to the G P and he 'll give me something and then the emotions will go away , but unfortunately they do n't go away , they just go wandering , they 'll come back again at another point . |
| 21 | I could hardly let you go off on an epic journey all by yourself . |
| 22 | one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable ( but actually worthless ) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer . |
| 23 | DURING my time in Germany ( 1984-88 ) the British Ambassadors in Bonn and East Berlin would twice a year set off on an official tour , once in his territory and once in mine , to gather impressions about the relationship between the two parts of the divided German nation and how it might develop . |
| 24 | Haverford got up early , sat in the garden jotting away until , as often as not , Don Marco arrived in a small rattling car and took him off on an unknown errand . |
| 25 | The thinking of politicians for whom education is only important if it helps boost the national economy , and this is important because it helps people enjoy what they want , and this is important because it encourages consumption and thus industry , either goes round in a vicious circle or takes off on an interminable regress . |
| 26 | LIFE magazine followed up on an odd ad in a North Dakota newspaper from a woman offering to swap her engagement ring , wedding dress and veil for a Harley-Davidson motorbike . |
| 27 | Nathaniel 's name is high up on an inner wall of one of the piers . |
| 28 | ( b ) It is usually drawn up on an annual basis by comparing the previous year 's expenditure and adding increments , or perhaps decrements. ( c ) There is a natural tendency , when dealing with inputs on an incremental basis , to favour existing programmes . |
| 29 | No foe should ever sneak up on an exhausted Marine slumbering during prolonged combat . |
| 30 | These ‘ Mietkaserne ’ ( literally ‘ rental barracks ’ ) , to avoid the slum problem of a London or central Berlin , would be four storeys high and would open up on an interior square that was green and ample enough to permit plenty of light and fresh air . |