Example sentences of "[pron] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 2 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 3 | Out of his sack he fished a pair of sticky-rubber knee-pads and proceeded to strap them on with a complicated system of webbing . |
| 4 | It is pesticide-free and traps male moths by luring them on to a sticky pad with the aid of a sex attractant ( a pheromene lure capsule ) given off by female moths to attract a mate . |
| 5 | They went down a narrow lane called Smugglers ' Gully , which led them on to a wild rocky headland . |
| 6 | The reason for this may well be that the hospital consultant is reluctant to let go medical responsibility for former patients and thrust them on to a local GP , but he is not normally easily available when off duty or working in a clinic many miles away . |
| 7 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 8 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 9 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 10 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 11 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 12 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 13 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 14 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 15 | She designed a print room based on an eighteenth-century concept , by cutting out black and white prints and their hanging bows and pasting them on to an apricot Regency background . |
| 16 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 17 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 18 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 19 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 20 | ’ You put me on to a good thing , ’ he went on , ’ with Ardakke . |
| 21 | My brother could make me cry just by lifting me on to a five-foot-high garden trellis and leaving me there , so I was hardly a miniature Chris Bonnington . |
| 22 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 23 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 24 | It 's a fast ascent on to the bealach , and then a right turn takes you on to a surprising flat little plateau sporting a tiny circular lochan . |
| 25 | The first stage of the programme is designed to get you on to a balanced , low-calorie diet , and to cleanse you system so that in Stage II you will be able to tell which foods suit your body the most . |
| 26 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 27 | I suppose that the ‘ great bloke ’ who lives next door … the dearest friend … is used to all that … hands you on like a bloody parcel at the end of the evening . ’ |
| 28 | The patriot had already locked itself on to an Iraqi scud aimed at a Saudi airbase . |
| 29 | Such a feature should always have somewhere positive to go and here the path leads one on with a genuine air of anticipation . |
| 30 | Lucy said ruefully , gratefully lowering herself on to a floral-cushioned , wicker-backed sofa in the conservatory and reluctantly submitting to Virginia 's fussing with a footstool , ‘ Is Mrs Chalk still there ? |