Example sentences of "[conj] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a modern diaphragm valve , it may only be necessary to move the float up or down on the serrated spindle connected to the valve arm |
| 2 | either that or out on the bleeding street |
| 3 | There are two options , inside , or out on the open deck . |
| 4 | She struck out forcefully towards Alexander , which seemed natural , since the boat at anchor was the only thing to swim towards or away from or around on the flat Mediterranean . |
| 5 | A general wander up and down on a previous occasion had produced some interesting items , but I knew that the site had not seen past habitation . |
| 6 | It was like having jumped up and down on a beautiful springboard , relishing the thrill of the plunge into the deep roaring water , and then diving at last into an empty pool . |
| 7 | When she reached a certain point it bent sharply and excitingly down , and she was soon enjoying the sensation of going up and down on a galloping pony . |
| 8 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |
| 9 | A tiny , rotund figure was stamping up and down on the daubed green of the false ground , like a drunken redneck at a hoedown , or an aboriginal at a corroboree . |
| 10 | Street upon street of small Chinese shopfront , a Manhattan-like skyline and junks bobbing up and down on the busy harbour from indelible images of this British colony . |
| 11 | And down on the previous year ? |
| 12 | I was standing there talking to him , and over on the other side of Lime Street , the station side , there was another mackintosh shop and they had ten shilling notes pasted in the window . |
| 13 | They rolled over and over on the damp moss , exchanging blows and vile words until finally Topaz 's strength ran out . |
| 14 | This permits the ring to move down on the line under greater tension , and up on the opposite side which would be on the outside of a turn . |
| 15 | There were hoof-marks of horses , and once or twice the slots of deer , and out on the very edge where the track was worst a narrow winding verge where travellers on foot had been forced to push their way through the undergrowth . |
| 16 | It was not really practical to operate it from his airstrip at Sutton Bridge , where the ‘ Me 108 ’ and Stearman were based , although the Corsair could easily be flown in and out on an occasional basis . |
| 17 | And back on the ninth . |
| 18 | The 11-year-old member of Wensleydale Smokebusters from Redmire will travel in style from Darlington to York and back on the new smoke-free train on Friday . |
| 19 | If they do , another injection , tube back down and back on the life-support machine . |
| 20 | I would go round and round on the same point , he would commiserate , pretend to understand , but never move an inch . |
| 21 | Productivity growth in manufacturing in the first quarter at 3.8 per cent was higher than the same period a year earlier , but down on the five per cent improvement in the final three months of last year . |
| 22 | Jean-Marie Le Pen 's extreme right party is now expected to get only 12-13 per cent of the vote , slightly down from its 13.6 per cent in the regional elections but up on the 9.6 per cent it won in the last general election five years ago . |
| 23 | But out on the wide , untidy expanse behind the drying green and the wash houses the children must have forgotten , for we play tig and hide-and-seek in the long grass , running about in gangs of indiscriminate age and religion . |