Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Believe it or not , the society has now been in existence for a year and subscriptions became due on the 16th of March . |
| 2 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , a great deal of our flying is done by habit and this can lead to serious problems if anything goes wrong on the first flight in a strange machine . |
| 4 | When anything goes wrong on the surgical side the fault is automatically mine . ’ |
| 5 | His thick straight black hair was parted high on the left and plastered to his skull with hair oil . |
| 6 | Thus , where rent is payable quarterly in advance on the usual quarter days a term of " seven years from 25 March " will be construed as beginning at the first moment of 25 March , so that the first payment of rent will fall due on the first day of the term and the last payment of rent would be made in respect of a complete quarter , which ends at the last moment of the term . |
| 7 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |
| 8 | Schoop was , however , found guilty on the same charges because she gave further details to Hans Kopp when he telephoned her later the same day at his wife 's suggestion . |
| 9 | Now , the reason why we 're getting a fairly high test statistic is that er , that distribution , although it looks normal on the left hand side , it does n't look particularly normal erm on the right and that we are missing some observations , we are missing some values of the residuals er in one area of the graph , nevertheless if we had a larger sample , right we probably erm , right it does n't look , that looks quite encouraging in actual fact , those residuals do seem to be er normally distributed er what the test statistic is doing er it 's saying it 's performing a , it 's a kiescraper two test , it 's making two restrictions , one of which is saying , is the distribution of these residuals symmetric er and also it 's testing whether there 's one of the tails is a lot larger or a lot longer than the other tail of the distribution and er test statistics fairly high but we would n't reject the null of normality at the five percent level so our test statistic is four point zero eight and the critical value is five point nine nine and that the five percent significance level , so we 've got reasonably er robust residuals . |
| 10 | The proximal tentacle pores are large with rounded tentacle scales becoming scale-like on the proximal edge of the pore and number as follows : . |
| 11 | Thus Spunk stands bereft on the stark crag , with old winds whistling . |
| 12 | Rooms gaped empty on the next landing , their doors gone for firewood , paper stripped and plaster crumbling away from the lath walls . |
| 13 | The traditional MacLeod tartan also looks good on the simple shapes , as the more traditional the tartan , the more lines there are which makes the ceramics look less bland . ’ |
| 14 | I was keeping well on the landward side of the path , on the grass . |
| 15 | Up ahead cars and people moved undisturbed on the bright street at the top of the alley ; Maxim had time to search the man 's pockets — and then suddenly he had n't . |
| 16 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |
| 17 | ‘ The Greatest Cowboy ’ sails close to parody , rewriting ‘ Ghost Riders In The Sky ’ , but the big brooding figure comes clear in ‘ I 'm An Easy Rider ’ , stands proud on the Southern sense of place anthem ‘ Hey Porter ’ . |
| 18 | And still without needing to turn my head , but looking straight to the front , and walking at the same even pace along the path , I was conscious of a man perched motionless on the top bar of the gate , one leg over , so still that he might have been part of the gate itself . |
| 19 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 20 | Four others were scattered motionless on the green turf some thirty yards away . |
| 21 | People coming up from the beach were carrying their shoes , walking barefoot on the hot tarmac paths . |
| 22 | A printed bibliography with author and subject indexes will be supplied to the ESRC and all items made accessible on the bibliographic database SPRILIB maintained at the Scott Polar Research Institute . |
| 23 | The prosecution alleges that he murdered his ex-wife some time between the 21st and 23rd of January 1973 — she was last seen alive on the 20th . |
| 24 | The Housing Benefit Office will automatically work out any benefit due on the new charge . |
| 25 | Will they feel empty on the last child 's departure and give substance to what is often called the ‘ empty nest ’ syndrome of marriage ? |
| 26 | Every white hair seemed visible on the pink , painted skin , as if brushed in separately , and you could see the grainy texture of the nose . |
| 27 | Attempts at humour aside , I now find myself penning a few words of concern for Salford 's Graduate Association now that the same question seems to be written large on the proverbial wall . |
| 28 | Adaku was living alone on the seventeenth floor of a tower block in South London when we spoke to her . |
| 29 | Just put Webby on the right-hand side of midfield and put little Gary Crosby up the middle where he 's played a few times for Forest . |
| 30 | Stones break open on the windswept high plateau and fires are lit to defy the bitter chill and summon back the rays of the sun god , Inti . |