Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 2 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 3 | Darren , 21 , said : ‘ The smoke was very dense , so I got down low on the floor and pushed the kitchen door open . |
| 4 | Calvin takes a look at Jerry , mumbles something inaudible and sits down heavily on the step with his back to all of us . |
| 5 | The big truck shuddered to a halt , spraying gravel from under its locked wheels , as Rocky tramped down hard on the brakes . |
| 6 | He speaks English in a curious way , that improbable Dutch-accent tongue slapping down hard on the vowels , like shoe leather on a dry pavement . |
| 7 | As the train slows down considerably on the bend , look out beyond the Castoff Carpet Centre ( formerly Watley Baptist Chapel ) over the spire of Saint Greavsies and you may be able to spot the rusty corrugated sheeting , glistening muddily in the sunlight , that makes up the ground 's perimeter fencing . |
| 8 | And Black goes down theatrically on the edge of the box and nothing has been given and Gemmell took a chance then he er overplayed his protest to the referee . |
| 9 | The substance or substances were placed down either on an object in front of the horse or somewhere on the front of the horse himself . |
| 10 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 11 | What has happened because this problem has been recognised is that the police are having to go down there on a regular basis and actually stop people doing this stupid manoeuvre . |
| 12 | I 'll have to go down there on a Saturday , my mum said she 'd take me down there . |
| 13 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 14 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 15 | ‘ I suppose you think that your father and I have scrimped and saved to give you children a good education so that you can waste your time and money at the pictures , ’ said Mrs Mallory , pressing down fiercely on a handkerchief . |
| 16 | Softly , he sighed , drew in deeply on the cigarette , blew the smoke languidly towards the leafy canopy and said : |
| 17 | Joan had no wish to live in Denbigh Terrace , a house filled with all Branson 's memories and few of her own , and the pair moved in together on the Duende . |
| 18 | I liked Brahms 's youthful B major Trio for its wholly natural flow — as if the players were carried along willy-nilly on the music 's own tide . |
| 19 | And I do n't seeing any problem at all in you being able to come over well on the phone which is the important thing for us . |
| 20 | Both sleep through Today on the radio . |
| 21 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 22 | If you charged Musicians Union rates no one hired you : if you did n't , your fellow musicians hated you : and to stand up there on a platform for four hours disappointing a room full of people was not his idea of living . |
| 23 | On the whole , she thought as she grilled her lamb chop , tossed the broad beans from cullender to plate and regarded the ginger-haired Tobias who had curled up companionably on a copy of the parish magazine in the centre of the kitchen table , it 's an icon of paradise : a garden I did not make , a house I 'm only partly responsible for and , above all , no human contacts unless I seek them out . |
| 24 | See since Derek went up to work up there on the Rigs things have been Different . |
| 25 | Sidney lives out here on the eastern side of the town where the fish cellars used to be . |
| 26 | Inside the walls , in a similarly enlightened spirit , the conquerors destroyed most of the courtyards of the palace , leaving — and that grudgingly — little in the inner enclosure except the Pearl Mosque and a single string of pavilions spaced out also on the Jumna battlements . |
| 27 | Even in very large organizations one finds that the original conceptual activities were carried out initially on the drawing board , advancing to cardboard models to verify their ideas . |
| 28 | ‘ What are you doing ? ’ he shrieked , twisting about madly on the ropes that suspended him . |
| 29 | Mark Edwards , the ABA middleweight champion already in the Auckland squad , also won the vote of all three judges against Robert Buda , but the England captain Richie Woodhall got through only on a majority decision against his fellow Olympic bronze medal winner at light-middleweight . |
| 30 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |