Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 2 | The alley 's dead end glowed red in the wash of its brake lights , long shadows being thrown by the garbage hoppers over on the far side , and the sound of the cab 's turning engine had a hard edge in the chill night air . |
| 3 | HP PerfRX , a system performance monitoring tool is now available for OpenView , priced at £5,000 , and HP is also putting its backup and print management applications up on the environment . |
| 4 | I think the most interesting point here is the tax charge which is two percentage points down on the year before and that really is prior year adjustments , there are other pluses and minuses but that 's a significant reason . |
| 5 | This sometimes happens when managers must prepare for press conferences and they develop a superb presentation only to drop through the floor when an awkward press vulture homes in on the one weak link in the chain of argument . |
| 6 | Mr Moss Evans 's union , the Transport and General Workers , had called the lorry drivers out on the strike that a reading of contemporary newspapers suggests was the event , seen as characteristic of the abuse by trade unions of their power , that most vividly exposed the vacuity at the heart of policy and so most damaged the Labour Government 's prestige and prospects . |
| 7 | ‘ Like the Moon lands up on the surface of the Earth ? ’ asked Uncle Albert . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The usefulness of having transaction processing applications down on the workstation , the company says , is to bring for example sales order processing information closer to the salesperson , who can play around with the data in a windows-based environment , oblivious to the complex processing going on behind the scenes . |
| 10 | In the distance she heard the faint sounds of voices from the pool , and her dazed eyes rested on the green palm trees out on the terrace , while the dim light of the courtyard shut out the horrors of the morning , and she saw the gleaming white tower of a mosque against the deep sky and the far-off mountains , just as they had looked in the travel brochures . |
| 11 | Zambia slammed hir fists down on the table , causing the Sindy droid to bleep unexpectedly . |
| 12 | Yes , I mean that 's something that I enjoy doing , it 's , it 's quite a lot of fun in , in , in , in , coming to , to actually research each walk afterwards , er one for example , the Rollright Stones up on the Warwickshire border , that was particularly interesting because there 's quite a , quite a legend surrounding the Stones up there , er then there 's one at er a place called Hampton Gay just off the Banbury road , the Midlands-North railway line er goes quite close to the village of Hampton Gay , and towards the end of the last century there was a major railway disaster on that track killing about er 30 people I think , er so , you know , things like that which are perhaps not er that well known , you , you , you stumble across when you come to do the research . |
| 13 | I put the metal box containing the army ration-strengths down on the ground . |
| 14 | like here at Charybdis … cane chairs out on the piazza , |