Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right sit up on the chair and we 'll read the story of the jumble sale . |
| 2 | The control panel is discreetly tucked away on the front and is totally invisible when the spa is in use . |
| 3 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 4 | Left and Right differed only on the nature of this conflict . |
| 5 | The cost of choice for the majority is the absence of choice for the minority who will never afford to buy , … ‘ the Right to Buy ’ and growth of owner-occupation are effectively carried out on the backs of poor people . |
| 6 | More generally , it remains true that the severity of the Monopolies Commission 's findings mean that the board is necessarily placed somewhat on the defensive about its investment appraisals , and will find all its investment assumptions scrutinised with some suspicion . |
| 7 | In each case there can be no doubt that the advantages offered by the trust over the civil-law method were significant : performance in specie was a real possibility in each case ; that this was so depended entirely on the fact that trusts were subject to a different procedural order . |
| 8 | Dispel notions of lethargic ponies plodding nose to tail , only speeding up on the way back to the stables : trail riding can be both challenging and exciting . |
| 9 | ‘ Now they are working hard to get me fit enough to go back on the list — and they 're the only ones giving me hope , ’ says Anthony . |
| 10 | We will fail to understand the significance of terrestrial zodiacs If we merely pick up on the generally insignificant evidence for their physical reality . |
| 11 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 12 | In the end she made the decision to combine Episodes Three and Four together , losing one whole episode entirely to tighten up on the drama . |
| 13 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 14 | According to Peter Hume , finance director of stockbrokers Seymour Pierce Butterfield , investors considering buying shares in a company offering concessionary discounts should only do so on the merits of the shares . |
| 15 | ‘ I only came in on the red , raw minute , ’ she said , ‘ so you 'll excuse me , madam . ’ |
| 16 | How much they can take in depends partially on the structure of their leaves . |
| 17 | The change in depends only on the second derivatives at x , and so these derivatives must embody the curvature information . |
| 18 | When Ceauŝescu personally came in on the act they faked a car accident and tricked up a couple of bodies for the Securitate to send back to England . |
| 19 | Bite Three : ‘ A Prime Minister and a Cabinet so busy trying to recreate the present in the image of the past that they have entirely missed out on the opportunities for the future . ’ |
| 20 | For example , the report appears to distinguish between ‘ genotoxic ’ substances , which are mutagenic and directly damage DNA , and ‘ non-genotoxic ’ or ‘ epigenetic ’ substances , which apparently act indirectly on the genome . |
| 21 | He also says that Caesar started off in the lower classes and built himself up to where he stood and could only look down on the lower classes by turning his back on his friends and former colleagues . |
| 22 | Again I had to resort to cutting down her weight , so that she 'd be hungry enough to focus more on the food . |
| 23 | I mean , it 's only going up on the wall with those three others . |
| 24 | An opinion was expressed that such a purchaser under a suspensory condition ( that the money be only handed over on the certificate being got by the purchaser ) is not necessarily committing a violation of the Act , " assuming that he shows proper diligence in endeavouring to obtain the certificate , and is acting throughout in bona fide " : per Lord Trayner , ibid . |
| 25 | We 're all theologians , but we do obviously depend heavily on the help of the professionals . |
| 26 | Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor . |
| 27 | To stop the board from turning too much and possibly heading into wind , the turn can be stopped by swiftly moving forwards on the board |
| 28 | If you get your books right , it 'll all happen out on the shopfloor , all the manager has to do . |
| 29 | Most of the Pyrenean breeds , originally bred for work and naturally found also on the southern slopes with spanish breeds , are now rare . |
| 30 | We gazed enraptured at the city of Bath from the train as it drew in to the station — it was all laid out on the slopes of Lansdown like an aerial map of a moon landscape . |