Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her .
2 Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat .
3 I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot .
4 She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase .
5 And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were .
6 Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s .
7 There is an accepted tariff of damages for personal injuries laid down on a case-to-case basis by judges .
8 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 .
9 A large framed photograph of Margaret Thatcher beamed down on the proceedings , as the members sat in their seats in the high-ceilinged meeting-room .
10 The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners .
11 Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’
12 Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side .
13 Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 .
14 Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act .
15 Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions .
16 After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor .
17 However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act .
18 After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance .
19 By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes .
20 Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up .
21 The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh .
22 So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that .
23 More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage .
24 Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe .
25 Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm .
26 Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act .
27 Even the Granada announcer got in on the act .
28 Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value .
29 Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table .
30 The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target .
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