Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flint walls , often up to three feet thick , were usually built straight on the ground without foundations , with a central hearth , the fire either laid on the earth floor or , if better off , a large stone slab . |
| 2 | The table did for working and eating ; the mattress ( put straight on the floor and covered in black tweed ) did for sleeping and lounging ; and the steps made extra seating areas as well with the help of large flat black or white cushions which stacked like striped playbricks when not in use . |
| 3 | In reforming Brown , Mr Magaziner pioneered a number of techniques seen later on the task force : studying the problem exhaustively ( his report on the curriculum was 425 pages long ) ; building a consensus ( he organised fashionable dances , admitting only those who had helped with the report ) ; coming up with breathtakingly bold proposals ; and hinting that dire consequences might follow if the establishment resisted his ideas . |
| 4 | You know little kids coming out of school and going straight on the road . |
| 5 | Job cuts are already being made and newly-qualified nurses are going straight on the dole . |
| 6 | Erm but er we 've had one or two people come to us , and report that they 've been mugged , there again we get straight on the phone to the police . |
| 7 | It was a brown derby , worn straight on the head without an air . |
| 8 | He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down … |
| 9 | Well we went straight on the motorway |
| 10 | He left school and went straight on the dole , like Derek probably will . |
| 11 | Mm , mm , cos of King 's Cross , had to come at all it 's awful and one time you just went straight on the escalator and now you 've got to go |
| 12 | She 's fallen I think straight on the face . |
| 13 | Jacques Devraux held himself ramrod straight on the back of his stocky saddle pony and delivered his order to his son in a vehement undertone . |