Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [art] end " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the book did appear , in beautiful , almost square duodecimo format , it was adorned with a naked figure , the hero , embossed on the end board . |
| 2 | For much of the time , perched on the end of its European promontory , Greece feels lonely and insecure . |
| 3 | His mother was leafing through a huge pile of correspondence , the wire-framed spectacles perched on the end of her nose threatening to fall off at any moment , while Senga sat beneath the window , copying verses from an open Bible . |
| 4 | She was perched on the end of a bench . |
| 5 | Dressed in tropical white , with a panama on his head and a pair of glasses perched on the end of his nose , he was reading . |
| 6 | The cars parked on the end of the runway did n't help either , but Spencer says now that he would n't have made the runway even it they had n't been there . |
| 7 | He knew because his pyjamas were exactly where he 'd left them , dropped on the end of the coverlet . |
| 8 | Bill , Stella and Jean have a flat built on the end of this house , and Ling has his own quarters near the kitchen . |
| 9 | that 's right , and not even , not even a word of appreciation for , a , a sale you 've clinched or a good impression you 've made on the end deal |
| 10 | The tribal peoples concerned are dotted around the map in quite arbitrary fashion ; the arbitrariness being emphasized by dot references on a world map shown on the end covers of the book . |
| 11 | He wondered how many people had died on the end of that rope . |
| 12 | Clynol 's Sculpting Wax was used on the ends to help accentuate the loose tendrils . |
| 13 | I think the key point is Yeltsin , like Gorbachev , unlike the coup leaders is part of a very privileged elite in the Soviet Union and the difference is that to express the erm , you know trying to put them , advance themselves in society at the expense of the rest of Soviet 's society , applicable difference is erm much more inventive and sort of packed on the end to justify er that , that the moves they are making , I mean at , you know like I say that can be seen in the very democratic step that Yeltsin 's been taking since he 's been the Russian president . |
| 14 | The assumptions are based on an end 1993 FTSE 100 level of 3,000 at best and a positive stance on the US dollar . |
| 15 | Very briefly , I would 've preferred to have seen a contract based on the end performance with the grass being cut to a structured length . |
| 16 | However , Jim Payne of the SSGA said : ‘ The continued use of a formula based on the end price of a product , whether this price is profitable or loss-making is fundamentally flawed . |
| 17 | This led to the everyday use of microphones which were mounted on the end of a short boom extending from one of the ear-pieces of the pilot 's radio headset to a position in front of his mouth . |
| 18 | Changez 's left arm was withered in some way , and stuck on the end of the attenuated limb was a lump of hard flesh the size of a golf ball , a small fist , with only a tiny thumb projecting from the solid mass where there should have been nimble , shop-painting , box-carrying fingers . |
| 19 | The male spider 's penis is found on the end of one of its legs . |
| 20 | An extra planetary gear set on the end , together with a new rear casing , provides the extra , overdriven ratio . |
| 21 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 22 | This is left oversized , the tenons cut on the ends of the back uprights and the positions for the mortises marked off by laying the rail piece over the tenons . |
| 23 | Every gun in Famagusta is trained on the end of that trench , and Genoese archers are among the best in the world . |
| 24 | It comprises two parallel rows of council houses tacked on the end of a neat little avenue of ‘ Nash ’ houses build just after the war . |
| 25 | Providing I had no objection , Matron wanted me to work on until my holiday and have three extra days tacked on the end . |
| 26 | Towards nightfall the sun balanced on the end of the road and then not even his special lenses helped . |
| 27 | A blue-headed wagtail balanced on the end of a twig trying to give a warning ‘ tseep ’ with its mouth full of insects . |