Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first it will be business as usual down on the farm . |
| 2 | Two right so on the bottom now we 've just got one times one which is one and on the top we 've got one times twelve times two what does that come to ? |
| 3 | Share prices showed little change throughout the day however and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 1.0 down on the day at 2,817.0 , with just under 593 million shares changing hands . |
| 4 | In 1948 down on the River Thames in his home town of Henley he was preparing to race in an Olympic final . |
| 5 | In the computer graphics of Tron ( 1982 ) we are right down on the board with the players of video games , even if we do n't quite share their viewpoint ; the motorcycle shots , much quoted , show how exhilarating rapid movement along wholly imaginary perspectives can be . |
| 6 | So the camera was right down on the bottom . |
| 7 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 8 | Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ? |
| 9 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 10 | I goes ‘ Annemarie I hope and trust and pray you are not going to put that down on the paper . |
| 11 | In the event , and after at least a hint of treachery , shortly after eight o'clock on the night of 19 December 1946 the Vietminh blew up the power station in Hanoi and signalled the formal beginning of the Vietnam war . |
| 12 | Eight o'clock on the dot . |
| 13 | They left Aberdeen at eight o'clock on the morning of Tuesday , 24 August , and , climbing to high ground above the city , headed north-east along the coast through insignificant country — ‘ naked ’ , observed Johnson , ‘ of all vegetable decoration ’ . |
| 14 | At about eight o'clock on the evening of 28 July , the Prince , disguised as Betty Burke and wearing a ‘ flower 'd linen apron gown ’ , escaped from the Benbecula rowed by six strong men and accompanied by Flora Macdonald and faithful Neil MacEachan . |
| 15 | And somehow , not too long after eight o'clock on the Monday evening , the curtain rose for the first time on the London production of The Hooded Owl by Malcolm Harris . |
| 16 | Other concentrated entirely on the reference to the holding of client money , and were therefore more inclined to answer ‘ yes ’ . |
| 17 | Acceptance of these presuppositions would seem to be possible only on the basis of faith , and this point is made by Gandhi when he says |
| 18 | He swore he had never touched their sheep , and he swore by many Northern oaths that he was in Newcastle up till eleven o'clock on the night of the murders . |
| 19 | At eleven o'clock on the morning of the eleventh day of the eleventh month — November 1918 — the Great War ended . |
| 20 | It came at eleven o'clock on the morning of 18 April , when Chemical Bank in New York telephoned Branson with some unexpected news . |
| 21 | Following trade representations , Customs have now decided that there is little practical difference between the schemes and will accept that output tax is due only on the payment from the employee and any third party . |
| 22 | If it is due only on the trustee 's death , a bonorum emptor is allowed to take possession and enjoy the profits of the trust property during the lifetime of the trustee ( and debtor ) . |
| 23 | When the two Highlanders stood , he sauntered up and touched each gently on the chest . |
| 24 | Intensity is the magnitude of the perceived sensation and can be categorized as strong , moderate , faint etc. , whereas the character of an odour is the odour sensation which enables the nose to distinguish one odour from another presumably on the basis of prior knowledge . |
| 25 | This provided a richer and more varied diet and a grander life style for those in the middle and upper ranks of society than would have been possible if they had been dependent only on the products of a self-contained peasant economy . |
| 26 | The funniest moment came after I 'd read out a letter about a young couple who were getting married at St Luke 's Parish Church in Charlton , let's say at 2 o'clock on the whatsit of May . |
| 27 | One owner found that his cat did this only on the floor of a new extension he had built on to the side of his house . |
| 28 | Originally a Benedictine Abbey Church , which was destroyed by fire in 1120 , it was rebuilt soon after this much on the pattern of S. Mark 's in Venice and was made into a Cathedral in 1649 . |
| 29 | AJR procedure incorporates certain procedural protections for public bodies and the rule that a claimant asserting public law interests can only use AJR procedure puts him at a disadvantage which is justifiable only on the assumption that public law interests do not matter as much as private law rights and , therefore , do not deserve as much legal protection . |
| 30 | The procedures for interception According to the official version of events , interceptions were made before 1985 only on the authority of a warrant issued by the Home Secretary , the Secretary of State for Scotland , the Foreign Secretary , or the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , with each warrant naming only one person and one number . |