Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 2 | The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however . |
| 3 | ‘ But what goes on on the terraces seems to be very simple and almost harmless compared with that Rugby Club of yours . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 5 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 6 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 7 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 8 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |
| 9 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 10 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 11 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 12 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
| 13 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 14 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 15 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 16 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 17 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 20 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 21 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 22 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 23 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 24 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 25 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 26 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 27 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 28 | Spurs , Chaps and a Stetson are all she needs out on the range . |
| 29 | While most thoughts are still on London , RUNNING Magazine 's Publisher Nick Williams looks back on a very different kind of marathon at Lanzarote 's Club La Santa |
| 30 | He looks back on a stimulating and happy relationship with his fellow Board members . |