Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was very bad at gym , and really hated ‘ apparatus ’ , where we hurled ourselves over boxes and horses , or hung upside down on parallel bars . |
| 2 | They 're quite expensive at the outset because what we 've got to do is pay the lecturers to put a lot of work in on those lectures — it 's not a simple thing writing this lecture for a thirteen year old and we also pay the school teachers for coming along and helping the lecturers . |
| 3 | In 1645 , after a brief interval back on parliamentary committees , he was sent to Ireland with his regiment and named governor of county Louth and of Dundalk and a commissioner for Ireland . |
| 4 | ICL has been dallying with the prospect of putting its OfficePower office automation suite up on alien platforms for at least two years . |
| 5 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 6 | In addition , 88open says that software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 7 | In addition , 88open says software companies using its 88000 certification process have asked specifically for the group to put its stuff up on other architectures . |
| 8 | The Ridley Report : Unique event back on calmer waters Ian Ridley on a triumph for tradition after last year 's acrimony between two old heavyweights |
| 9 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 10 | He leaned the chair back on two legs and put the sole of one shoe against the bedrails , then pulled on the rope of nylon until his biceps began to crack . |
| 11 | Turning on Mungo , Mr Cottle paused to blow his nose , a signal for the trees to edge in on all sides , shutting out the sky . |
| 12 | And then my father would be standing on on top and throwing one of these er straw ropes up then he 'd let er an er end down on both sides . |
| 13 | Borland International Inc has formalised its agreement with Epson Sales , the marketing subsidiary of Seiko Epson Co , for the sale and technology licensing of a Japanese version of InterBase 3.2 — at Borland 's Tokyo announcement of InterBase last December , Epson was already demonstrating InterBase and the first release of InterBase JA3.2 is on Sun Microsystems Inc Sparcsystems , available from April 12 ; Borland plans to put the Japanese version of the database up on other machines ; the Japanese version supports a number of new functions including distributed databases , active data processing — functions such as triggers and event alerters — language support ( including support for both JIS and EUC codes sets ) and binary large objects ; Borland in conjunction with Epson Sales and its systems integration subsidiary Trans Abel , is to set up a Borland Authorised Support Centre for education and training . |
| 14 | Work from the corner out on both walls , blending the plaster to the existing surface . |
| 15 | The nineteenth-century physiologist , physicist and psychologist , von Helmholtz , who contributed substantially to every discipline that he engaged in , described the process thus : It was always necessary , first of all , that I should have turned my problem over on all sides to such an extent that I had all its angles and complexities " in my head " and could run through them freely without writing … |
| 16 | Now you can quit the heat of the kitchen and swan around on those yachts of yours you got stashed around the world . ’ |