Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forrester eventually got on the pitch with about 5 minutes left , and indeed Fowler was attempting to put him through when the ball richoched back to him , hit him in the stomach and sat up in a ‘ kick me please ’ type fashion , which he did , and scored . |
| 2 | Tommy Pickernell duly won on the horse with ease . |
| 3 | Mark 's smile did not reveal that Faustina naturally went on the beds as well as in the lounge . |
| 4 | She smiled across to where Edward still frolicked on the sand . |
| 5 | Willis and Tilda usually stopped on the way at a little shop in the Vauxhall Bridge Road , which seemed glad of any kind of custom , to buy a quarter of aniseed marbles . |
| 6 | Apart from Sir Humphrey , his sons Robert and Edward also sit on the main board . |
| 7 | The name of Gary Wolstenholme also remained on the big scoreboards all morning . |
| 8 | Mike O'Grady also got on the record-breaking 10–0 score sheet . |
| 9 | Manville nearly choked on the small cheroot he was in the process of lighting up . |
| 10 | Becky also commented on the new suit , but not until she had finished checking a lengthy column of figures . |
| 11 | Lucy nearly choked on the stuff , but kept it down . |
| 12 | Raymond Snoddy , in the Pearson owned Financial Times , last Friday also reported on the possibility of Pearson taking UK Gold , the entertainment channel set up by Thames and the BBC , to Asia , and of Longman becoming involved in the educational channel for broadcasting to Asia . |
| 13 | With macari 's arrival on hold again , Frank Connor will take the players to Seamill tomorrow to concentrate on the European business in hand . |
| 14 | This is the blustering earl of Gloucester , whom Jean again meets on the road . |
| 15 | Bernie obviously worked on the idea and eventually came up with a much cheaper and more simple solution which would provide the investigator with a moving picture of the basic flight instruments during the period leading up to the crash . |
| 16 | Emma had picked the school , Rachaela only signed on the relevant line . |
| 17 | The disintegration of the USSR caused so many new problems in the food and financial spheres that the economy of Russia soon teetered on the edge of catastrophe . |
| 18 | The transfer of Mrs Padmore still threatens on the first page . |
| 19 | Sarah twisted away from the physician 's grasp and darted back inside the foundry to where Bill Yardley still sat on the trough . |
| 20 | ‘ What were known all over the world as ‘ English gardens ’ were the most pervasive influence that England ever had on the European way of life' , wrote Lord Clark . |
| 21 | Ruth nearly choked on the last crumb of her pastry . |
| 22 | In response to his instructions , the maid pulled up a chair for the little girl , and Artemis carefully sat on the edge of it , her legs still too short to reach the floor . |
| 23 | Fred Hanna also commented on the currency movement , but not adversely . |
| 24 | A close study of the textual variants of this poem makes one wonder how much value Wordsworth really put on the words of a poem as opposed to its message ( see THE CONTROVERSY OVER POETIC DICTION below ) . |
| 25 | Two days , with a planetful of crooks looking for me … and Mala perhaps staying on the planet , with Gharr … |
| 26 | Above all , Plomer merely touches on the Elizabethan cadence and diction . |
| 27 | No stone rolled down the cliff that morning , and I left Euclid still snoozing on the old redwood step at about 10.50am and headed off over the bridge to Lighthouse Road , which runs along for two or three miles south of the river , through to the mouth of the Mattole and the northern tip of the King range . |
| 28 | He must have taken a short cut that she had n't noticed on her way down , as they arrived back at the house sooner than she was expecting and went straight to the veranda , where Faye still lay on the lounger , enjoying a long drink of iced water . |
| 29 | — HOWARD Wilkinson yesterday turned on the pundits writing off Leeds United 's championship chances . |
| 30 | Why is Phil always slobbering on the reviews pages ? |