Example sentences of "[noun] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 2 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 3 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 4 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 5 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 6 | Luib had laid Madra down on a faded red couch . |
| 7 | Triumphantly , he slapped a wodge of notes down on the polished mahogany counter , as if anxious to be rid of it , and snatching a 12 bore from the gunsmith , he strode out into the square . |
| 8 | Write all your metaphors and similes down on a separate sheet of paper . |
| 9 | Here is one of those places , then , where the frontier does not follow the ridge of the mountains , but takes a sudden dive down on the French side . |
| 10 | This means that for lettering written in the normal way on the mylar sheet , you need the right hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( left on the earlier models ) for the lettering to be readable on the knitting . |
| 11 | Plain lace knitting with the No. 2 left hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( right hand light on earlier models ) |
| 12 | Plain lace as in swatch 1 knitted with the No. 2 right hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( left hand light on earlier models ) |
| 13 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 14 | The £917m it made in 1991 was just 3pc down on the previous year 's £945m . |
| 15 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 16 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 17 | At Lyness , the Thorsvoe noses in on the low tide . |
| 18 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 19 | Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned . |
| 20 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 21 | THE angle between Saturn and Pluto on March 20 and October 9 homes in on the financial sector of your chart . |
| 22 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 23 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 24 | Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu . |
| 25 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 26 | You can never be too early starting your kids off on the right foot — in fact , it 's essential |
| 27 | It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick |
| 28 | In desperation he faked a dive and hauled the SE up on a tight loop . |
| 29 | There was the hum of cars up on the main road . |
| 30 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |