Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv prt] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Labour councillor Gordon Plummer said it would be difficult to find anyone to take the building on on an annual tenancy until the future of the cattle market nearby was sorted out . |
| 2 | She stood in the queue for some minutes , till she was served by a sweating , grimy woman , who sprayed from a height a tray full of cups , and slapped the change down on a counter awash with various fluids . |
| 3 | Every night Boy would wear the same thing , a white t shirt ; and every night he would throw that t shirt down on a different bedroom floor . |
| 4 | Members of the Company put their money down on a separate basis for a distinct and limited series of enterprises ; profits from the voyage would be divided in proportion to capital invested , but capital as well as dividends could be withdrawn when the enterprises were complete and all the goods brought back had been sold off . |
| 5 | His relief at not having been made a fool of was matched by his curiosity to find out who the devil he was , this man Iying chest down on the wet flagstones , face turned to one side as though asleep . |
| 6 | Here is one of those places , then , where the frontier does not follow the ridge of the mountains , but takes a sudden dive down on the French side . |
| 7 | This means that for lettering written in the normal way on the mylar sheet , you need the right hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( left on the earlier models ) for the lettering to be readable on the knitting . |
| 8 | Plain lace knitting with the No. 2 left hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( right hand light on earlier models ) |
| 9 | Plain lace as in swatch 1 knitted with the No. 2 right hand light on on the 580 and the EC1 ( left hand light on earlier models ) |
| 10 | Indeed , I sat there in the muggy warmth until the balding , bull-necked scruff of a proprietor or manager started to put the chairs upside down on the swabbed tables — a peculiar custom which is surely unhygienic enough to be banned by law . |
| 11 | Lee waited until the girl had placed the tray down on a small side table and backed silently from the room . |
| 12 | Yet , till the day she died , she put the tea tray down on a lighter table , next to the heavy one , that had survived . |
| 13 | After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path . |
| 14 | Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned . |
| 15 | Investment over the 1992–1994 period at £5.4 billion is forecast to be 22 p.c. down on the 1989–91 levels after allowing for inflation and the lowest since 1984–86 but still 30 p.c. higher than the depth of recession in 1981–1983 . |
| 16 | March sales at 143,115 were 15.2 p.c. down on the same period a year ago , with Rover showing an alarming 45 p.c. slide . |
| 17 | Let me zero my telepathy in on the benign , rumpled and somewhat steatopygous figure of my friend Stu . |
| 18 | Having done everything in your tank preparations to avoid new tank syndrome , you can still set in motion some of the attendant problems if you start your new stock off on the wrong fin . |
| 19 | The total value of cross-border deals in the first three months of this year at $13.3 billion was 45 p.c. up on the corresponding period a year ago but was still well below the 1989 peak when the quarterly average reached $32.6 billion . |
| 20 | David Goldman , chairman , said the group 's United Kingdom software sales rose by 16 p.c. despite difficult market conditions and that Sage continues to trade ahead of internal targets , with profits in the first half 62 p.c. up on the corresponding period . |
| 21 | But have you heard about the metamorphosis demonstration out on the main plaza ? |
| 22 | While the circuit is being cleared to give us a free run , Brundle takes the car out on the public roads . |
| 23 | He extracted Catherine a short while later and turned the car back on the darkened road which would lead them towards the A1 . |
| 24 | One tooth out on the rubber timing belt makes a lot of difference . |
| 25 | Puffins spend most of their time fishing out on the open ocean , but in spring , in order to nest and breed , they have to return to land . |
| 26 | I thought of this killer out on the empty , wild moor , and I felt more and more uncomfortable about my surroundings . |
| 27 | Your due back on the ninth ? |
| 28 | So I drive back , pig out on a hi-cal breakfast , devour Sunday paper trash , wander home , hug the pillow you lay on , find a blonde hair or two , grin like an idiot , realise my hangover 's gone , work like a trooper all afternoon , sip a little brandy come early evening , and raise my glass to your very good health . |
| 29 | Jimmy had laid the girl down on the rough floor . |
| 30 | It was nice to home in on the one naive sentence in a book and quote it , making the author look like a prat . |