Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sit down on the floor next to Marie and look round . |
| 2 | I sit down on the bench and look up at the sky . |
| 3 | I sit down on the edge of the chair and put my arm around her . |
| 4 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 5 | Now that the troops are gone , I sit back on the chaise-longue , that Japanese fish-tailed thing , and close the fan beside me , blocking the street and the living-room . |
| 6 | They are pulled away impatiently by Bill , so I sit back on the side lines . |
| 7 | Yes I pick up on the comment from the , Notts are n't as in control as they were , after first Tony and then Paul got their names on the score sheet in each case for the first time this season , both with bristling finishing efforts and you 'd be a harsh critic indeed who did n't agree that Pisa deserved to pull one back because they played some fine attacking football , and it was the player who 's caused most danger , who 's wearing the number eleven that moved across to the right hand side , got clear of the defence , pulled back an absolutely brilliant clot cross and in the middle who 'd missed an earlier header on fifteen minutes to make it one one , did n't miss on this occasion . |
| 8 | At four and a half thousand pound of sales we start to pay extra fift in fact at four thousand pound we start but it 's only a small bonus so I home in on the bigger one . |
| 9 | And it is , I put up on the screen there where the depots are so they know what they 're looking for , and I say , now what I want you to is tell me where the depots are . |
| 10 | If I look back on the people who have led me very well in the past , it was those who were able to create and sustain just such a sense of challenge . |
| 11 | And now I look back on the years I wasted on the building sites and I should 've become a policeman ea a lot earlier cos it 's great fun . |
| 12 | When I look back on the long friendship , I realize that I need not have had certain misgivings about troubling Eliot or taking up his time — misgivings due to temperamental diffidence rather than to genuine modesty , I am afraid — because he was both generous of his time and solicitous about the welfare of those in whom lie took an interest . |
| 13 | Below , I look down on the differing surfaces , the differing states of ripeness from light green through to gold . |
| 14 | I lie down on the bench and try and make myself comfy . |
| 15 | Maha followed them but Hussa and I threw ourselves face down on the warm , white sand , both of us smiling at the success of the project . |
| 16 | I set up on the same spot as in the previous summer , but this time my luck was different . |
| 17 | Then , at 7pm , I set off on the drive south to San Francisco . |
| 18 | But that alone did n't daunt my spirit , so I set off on the second day with a little more trepidation but just as much determination to learn to sail . |
| 19 | Then , once dressed , I set out on the great excursion : shopping , errands , and a treat in a cafe . |
| 20 | And so I set out on the long journey back to Thornfield . |
| 21 | Last year I set out on the same quest , but met with little success . |
| 22 | I turn up on the set with twenty pages of notes . |
| 23 | So good am I that I turn round on the runners to photograph Tony . |
| 24 | When I go down on the table-cloths , the water runs over my hand . |
| 25 | For me it 's just feel and the longer I stay out on the range , the more damage I do ! |
| 26 | Well she l she lived I think up on the hill above here . |
| 27 | When , sometimes , I think back on the beauty of life on a South Seas island , I start to wonder how fate could possibly have propelled me from the rain and bedraggled leafless winter trees of England to such distant enchantment . |
| 28 | But the dream , ‘ When I come up on the Pools ’ became the Fifties equivalent of breaking the bank at Monte Carlo for the Edwardians . |
| 29 | Cos I come in on the Friday after I picked her up from school . |
| 30 | Apparently , the tow given to old whalers by a harpooned whale was known as the ‘ Nantucket Sleighride ’ ; I haul back on the line , release the snow hook and take a similar ride . |