Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the mental health commission , a body which monitors standards in mental hospitals , says in a report that at Coney Hill hospital patients were locked in the seclusion rooms for too long because there were n't enough staff to look after them properly on the wards . |
| 2 | Right , if you just want to come out of there and we 'll just have a look at the plot of the residuals , if you plot the residuals the test for serial correlation there well the test for serial correlation , right , and try and determine whether there 's a auto regressive structure to those parameters and I think Steve was talking to you about er auto regressions , so what the computer is doing essentially , it is getting the residuals from the model raised and it 's regressing them right on the residuals in the previous period , right , and it 's testing whether this parameter row , right , is significantly different from zero right , now if this is , if row is significantly different from zero , let's say it 's nought point six , that implies the residuals in T are not independent of the residuals in T minus one . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , all inductivists would claim that in so far as scientific theories can be justified , they are justified by supporting them inductively on the basis of some more-or-less secure basis provided by experience . |
| 4 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 5 | He gets up , holding the thin sheets of paper in front of him , perhaps just a little further away from himself than he normally would , and puts them delicately on the desk in front of me . |
| 6 | ‘ It caught me right on the side of my face , ’ she said . |
| 7 | no here they are , I know I 've seen them somewhere on the window sill |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 9 | She was unimpressed by both her grandfather 's reputation and his work : she had removed from her bedroom wall a large still-life of gladioli and a small representation of a baby 's head and stacked them carelessly on the landing in order to make room for a poster of Humphrey Bogart . |
| 10 | DRAWING THEM IN ON THE WIRRAL |
| 11 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 12 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 13 | She sat them down on the sofa . |
| 14 | But long before he reaches him he recognizes him — from the way he 's sitting , sprawled back in an armchair with his feet on a coffee-table , reading an ancient Amazing Science Fiction ; from his spectacles and rumpled hair ; from the fact that he 's taken his shoes and socks off to cool his feet , and tossed them down on the coffee-table ; from the way he does n't look up , even as Howard comes right up to him , goggling head leading the way , unable to believe his eyes . |
| 15 | She waited until the first few bars of the signature tune started to play , then unclipped her headphones and set them down on the desk with a sharp clatter before starting to gather up the stack of notes . |
| 16 | And if you had paper plates people put them down on the floor , inevitably , somebody got drunk and put their plate on the floor , they were probably thinking about something else , and then the beet juice or the goo or whatever , soaked through the paper plate and onto the carpet and you never , never got it out . |
| 17 | so if I bring them down on the floor , you know that if they say maybe naughty |
| 18 | Then in order to compare your expenditure against likely income , jot them down on the Budget Planner ( see pages 120–25 ) . |
| 19 | Picking up the drinks , she crossed the room and set them down on the trestle , careful to keep her face turned away from the window . |
| 20 | The man with the shears laid them down on the grass , took a handkerchief from his pocket , made a knot in each of its four corners and placed this improvised sun-hat on his head . |
| 21 | Instead , it plonks them down on the gravel path and lets them knock about a bit . |
| 22 | I took out the 8000 and put them down on the table . |
| 23 | He flicked through them , then threw them down on the table . |
| 24 | The boy came in through the back carrying Russell 's blanket roll and carbine and put them down on the passenger bench . |
| 25 | Ought I to restrict supplies to certain retailers only , or release them only on the certificate of a doctor or justice of the peace , or simply rely on those who can afford to pay getting them on the black market ? ’ |
| 26 | Whereas the vertical combs of honey-bees have cells on both sides , the paper-wasp 's horizontal combs have them only on the under-surface . |
| 27 | ‘ Certainly the play advocates a continuation of the war , as plays nowadays are required to do , ’ said Deems , folding his hands and placing them gently on the table before him , as if to show that he concealed nothing . |
| 28 | ‘ They let me in on the secret quite early — then people started joking about it . |
| 29 | So let me in on the secret . |
| 30 | People keep mentioning this Peter Barnes guy , could someone please let me in on the joke . |