Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Robert Montague ( right ) hit a winning streak in the 1980s — and it 's carrying right on into the 1990s .
2 There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground .
3 I 'm on on about the same subject .
4 The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen .
5 Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south .
6 I should also say that these are already selling like the proverbial hot cakes , so maybe I should move swiftly on to the ME-10
7 She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next .
8 To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant .
9 She turned to look at him , and he drew her gently down on to the cool grass .
10 Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored .
11 Move down on to the second page then .
12 She flopped down on to the padded driver 's seat , planning to catch up on her sleep .
13 One hand was tangled in her hair , holding her down , and with the other he traced a line past her collarbone and down on to the softer flesh beneath , tugging the neckline of her dress lower and lower , until Folly could feel it brush the swollen aureoles of her breasts under the silk of her bra .
14 Their tusks were gnarled and they differed from the older Daurog in one remarkable and savage aspect : ridges of long , black spikes grew from the fronts of their bodies ; the central , vertical line of thorns ran down on to the twisting , restless sex organs that hung from their rotund bellies .
15 On other JAR matters , the Library staff restructuring has pushed a lot more work down on to the front desk staff , and I 'm sure that the effects will be noticed in future .
16 And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility .
17 I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker .
18 The thinning veil of cloud eddied in a gust of wind , and suddenly we were below it , looking down on to the flat roofs of a town spread out in a broad valley of rain-washed green .
19 Joe now withdrew his hand from the desk and , rising to his feet , he looked down on to the upturned faces of the two men and said , ‘ My mother may remain in the house as long as she wishes , but the running of it , the accounts and such , I wish to leave in your control .
20 ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table .
21 Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry .
22 Huy 's job was to tamp this second layer down on to the first .
23 We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf .
24 But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck .
25 He heard a gasp from the crowd of people gathered below , he seemed to hang forever in mid-air and then , miraculously , he was crashing down on to the opposite roof .
26 I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold .
27 She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon .
28 The move to Apollo Place brought Minton to an area long associated with artists ; through a circular window half-way up the stairs he looked down on to the next door studio which had once belonged to Turner .
29 We came out of the beach-hut belt and slid down on to the barrelling freeway .
30 The doctor looked down on to the younger children 's heads and his teeth clamped down even harder on his cigar .
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