Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv prt] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The first stanza homes in on the particulars but then , in the second , there is a general perspective given , on the whole world , dealing with a big issue . |
| 2 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Thirteen thousand feet up on the shores of Lake Titicaca . |
| 4 | ‘ The brigade actually sets the fireworks off on the ramparts of the castle , ’ fire safety officer Denis Neads said yesterday . |
| 5 | Now when you go through most of the things that you will see you can touch , but there are things up on the shelves at the sides and we put them there for special reasons , usually cos they 're very heavy or cos they might break easily . |
| 6 | Yanto could see several small figures out on the sands . |
| 7 | The consultant 's have put forward proposals which they believe could halve the amount of police time spent on these administrative tasks and which could put the equivalent of up to two thousand three hundred police officers back on the streets . |
| 8 | Financially troubled Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its PA-RISC-based fault tolerant machines back on the tracks . |
| 9 | Financially troubled Marlborough , Massachusetts-based Sequoia Systems Inc says it is no longer looking for a buyer — it did n't get any acceptable offers in the first place — and is talking to minority investor Hewlett-Packard Co about new funding to get development its Precision Architecture RISC-based fault-tolerant machines back on the tracks : Hewlett has hitherto seemed doubtful about further involvement . |
| 10 | She feels the union has been ineffectual and even the so-called industrial action four years ago when members refused to set or mark exam papers seemed , quite unjustifiably , to be taking things out on the students . |
| 11 | Oh yeah there was lots of foreigners , Americans and foreign people there all with maps out on the tables , trying to find their way round York , which I knew that Stuart knew so it was n't too bad for us , but there 's loads of people , you know thought how do we get to this from here and well it 's certainly a a an experience . |
| 12 | The Marshal knew that the guard would be putting hand-cuffs and chains back on the prisoners and lighting cigarettes for them which they would smoke with both hands . |
| 13 | Hello there this week we 've come to the coast to go climbing with three local mountaineers … the sport is celebrating at the moment … it 's thirty years since the conquest of Everest and every weekend you 'll find climbers out on the cliffs and craggs of britain |
| 14 | But going after rabbits , especially the cunning little bastards out on the Grounds , you need all the help you can get . |
| 15 | Below us rows of lads have put their winklepickers up on the backs of the seats , their feet crossed at the ankles , perching like a flock of shiny blackbirds with pointed wings . |
| 16 | There were pro-shah demonstrators out on the streets as well , as may of whom had been produced by the Iranian embassy . |
| 17 | The dealers , under intense pressure to achieve sales targets , took their frustrations out on the youths . |
| 18 | It was however hard to speak to the girls out on the streets and so in 1991 a Refuge Centre was opened at Holm Street . |
| 19 | These send the expectant mothers out on the tiles again where , if they are mated once more , they will be fertilized again and then carry two litters at two different stages of development . |
| 20 | The dragonwoman had quite recovered her composure now , and looked levelly at Hrun as he threw the two men down on the steps before her . |
| 21 | In fact , the gradient favoured a trolleybus reversing and they could be seen performing the exercise without putting their poles up on the wires . |
| 22 | The next day , on our arrival back at the hospital , there were bars up on the sides of Nigel 's bed . |
| 23 | What I 'd like to do to start with is I 'd like to actually put the scores up , put your scores up on the charts and then we 'll look at what , what exactly they mean , what does A stand for but what does it all mean . |
| 24 | And I remember one time he gave me a list of things to do in the morning — fill this with potatoes , put the beans up on the shelves , brush the yard and then you can go out . |
| 25 | About 75,000 homes were repossessed last year — putting around 6,000 men , women and children out on the streets every week . |
| 26 | She had to get her hands back on the reins , had to re-establish at least a degree of control over her own life . |
| 27 | Quite what this means is unclear , but one can be sure that voters out on the Plains would not approve . |
| 28 | They were putting the chairs up on the tables and wiping up the mess and the cracked glasses and limp crisp-bags , and I still was n't feeling too good . |
| 29 | Rockhoppers nearly always nest in colonies up on the tops of cliffs , sometimes 30 metres above the sea , which , on the face of it , seems a daft place for a bird which can not fly ! |
| 30 | She would put drawings up on the walls saying This is a table or this is a cat , and then she would say : Now to class |