Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | Many scientists were astonished at home that evening to see the faces of the two chemists appearing on the television as Dan Rather on the CBS evening news headlined the Utah work as ‘ a remarkable breakthrough ’ . |
| 3 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 4 | Get this bit right on the back ! |
| 5 | Before he saw Nicandra alone on the stand , he had noticed a different kind of tension ; it was in the bar , where Andrew was having a drink with Lalage , while now , he guessed , Nicandra would be getting the money on to Lalage 's horse . |
| 6 | " What about , " Graham said , pointing one finger at Slater , who pursed his lips and tapped his foot impatiently on the fire-surround , " those people who like Barry Manilow and John Cage ? " |
| 7 | Before the end of the 18th century , this was confirmed by the Society electing to have three contests annually on the day of the papingo shoot — one each for the ‘ gentlemen ’ , the ‘ merchants and tradesmen ’ , and the ‘ boys ’ , with only the ‘ gentlemen ’ eligible to shoot for the papingo trophy . |
| 8 | Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward . |
| 9 | Always put the hook in on the carriage side , knit the row and then put in the other hook . |
| 10 | It 's election constantly on the telly . |
| 11 | So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground . |
| 12 | William Clark put his resignation in on the day of the ceasefire . |
| 13 | But the females compete for males because the male has a pouch literally on the front of his , of his belly , you know what a sea horse looks like , he looks like a horse actually , not surprisingly , you know they have this kind of , they have a kind of tail and they have this kind of pouch . |
| 14 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 15 | Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst . |
| 16 | Ronan Rafferty : " I let Christy down on the greens . |
| 17 | They were on the brow of a little hill and Sara walked farther on to look down on the county spread in front of her , idly trying to recognise familiar landmarks — It was a travel-ad view — neat lush fields , trim hedgerows , a farmhouse nestling in amongst its windbreak of trees , a sheet of yellow on the far hills where a field of mustard was in bloom , and for the rest , a thousand different shades of the greens of high summer , a piece of England basking in the sun and as beautiful as any foreign strand . |
| 18 | The bouncer — bullies , as they were called in Dublin — stepped away from Lee , and eased the hammers down on the shotgun . |
| 19 | Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the phone table . |
| 20 | There were the inevitable demands that the new Soviet ‘ threat ’ be repulsed : the United States , some thought , should forget about the Europeans and concentrate its diplomatic and military skills entirely on the Pacific . |
| 21 | His voice was offhand , as he strode in and put his neat briefcase down on the desk . |
| 22 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 23 | At last Couville put his goblet down on the floor beside him . |
| 24 | Clinton put his goblet down on the table , bade us good night and walked softly away . |
| 25 | Three months into the financial year — for which the directors were forecasting 25 per cent growth in turnover , to £4 million — Tozer admits sales are ‘ a bit down on the plans to date ’ . |
| 26 | We have been eating together quite a bit , and also travelling to the University together on the bus — the University being about 8 miles from the city centre . |
| 27 | Yeah they put additional money in on the pilots but |
| 28 | When we were kill-pricking we used to put a sack down on the floor and lie on our bellies using a bodkin to clear holes . |
| 29 | I lay the bike down on the grass , turn back to the shed , slowly push open the door … peer inside … without entering . |
| 30 | He tapped Mandeville gently on the shoulder . |