Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the second last she put in a tremendous leap and was back in the lead as Run And Skip started to fade , but Forgive 'N Forget on the stands side and Wayward Lad inside him were now going for home , and they passed Dawn Run on the approach to the last . |
| 2 | No one remembers the herbaceous border for itself , or remarks on the subtlety of textures in your dashing skate-and-potato combo . |
| 3 | — When going for country walks , one often comes across a railway line , and it is tempting to walk along either beside the rails or stepping on the sleepers between the rails . |
| 4 | No political action may be undertaken or justified on the ground that it promotes an ideal of the good nor on the ground that it enables individuals to pursue an ideal of the good . |
| 5 | Marooned in that room or dawdling on the shore . |
| 6 | As she flies through the dark , or gallops on the horse of night , she is using different skills from those of our daytime world . |
| 7 | The term ‘ premises ’ as defined in Article 2(2) ‘ includes any place and , in particular , includes any vehicle , vessel , aircraft or hovercraft , any installation on land ( including the foreshore and other land intermittently covered by water ) , any offshore installation , and any other installation ( whether floating , or resting on the seabed or the subsoil thereof , or resting on other land covered with water or the subsoil thereof ) , and any tent or movable structure . ’ |
| 8 | For ordinary people in undernourished Bucharest to regard the trinkets of capitalism as the symbols of liberty as well as the rewards of prosperity is understandable , but to have the wealth of twenty-three million Romanians to squander at one 's will and to choose to watch Kojak or to sit on the sort of lumpish gilt furniture that Western department stores export to their Arab allies would not have suited Caligula . |
| 9 | Adolescents are very sensitive about pretence , hypocrisy or deceit on the part of their parents . |
| 10 | The common message , from many of the women or members of ethnic communities we spoke to , was , their need to be seen on the television screen or heard on the radio . |
| 11 | or drained on the reeds blowing |
| 12 | The image of the Swastika accompanying the Yagna is either drawn or formed on the ground . |
| 13 | If you do not have a personal alarm then try and shout for help , or bang on the floor or wall . |
| 14 | It was an appointment , as William Adam pointed out , which ‘ often follows at a great distance of time after the application & entring on the list ’ . |
| 15 | But Caro could n't help feeling snubbed that her mother had not given the lettuce a little squeeze , to see how good and hearty it was , or commented on the size and perfect shape of the radishes . |
| 16 | Others are not reported because of embarrassment or fear on the part of the victim ( rape , domestic assaults ) , or because he or she thinks that there is little the police can do about it ( vandalism , shoplifting ) , or that the offence is not very serious anyway , or that there is no unwilling victim ( drug abuse , soliciting , under-age sex ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Sources close to the ‘ artiste ’ suggest the decision to cancel the tour was not made for glamorous or news-worthy reasons , like police/local authority objections or fear on the streets of Britain … just that he ca n't be arsed . ’ |
| 18 | This may be under a piece of tree bark , along a ledge of some kind or hidden on the ground among the undergrowth . |
| 19 | The person who wrote the computer program used to assist in the creation of the types of works described above has no rights in the work because , although the programmer may control or influence the format of the finished work , he has no control or influence on the content . |
| 20 | He told himself that he was the last man who could reasonably be expected to advise or reassure on the problems of pregnancy and he sensed that Rickards 's unhappiness at his wife 's absence went deeper than missing her company . |
| 21 | Oddly for years , it remained permissible to use an iron or steel stemmer providing it was not upon the " … wadding or the first part of the tamping or stemming on the powder … |
| 22 | Each are accounted for in the same way : budgeted expenditure is compared with actual spending , budgeted income with actual income , and any net under- or over-spending on the vote as a whole is paid over to , or collected from , the Consolidated Fund . |
| 23 | If you want decorative timber panels on the ceiling , you may need to use a fire retarding paint or varnish on the surface , although this is not usually necessary in most homes . |
| 24 | From swimming in one of many pools or boating on the lakes , to riding , tennis , hiking or just soaking up a mountain dark tan . |
| 25 | For the government , acceptance of central planning did not stand or fall on the issue of nationalisation . |
| 26 | The CEGB 's case is likely to stand or fall on the economics of the project . |
| 27 | It seems that the case for elaboration , and thus for the Withington-Barton Farm-Woodchester order of development , must stand or fall on the implications of the stylistic inter-relationships of the pavements themselves . |
| 28 | While difficulties in calculating harm may impede the application of the ‘ harm-to-others ’ principle , the regulation of insider dealing should not stand or fall on the fact that proof of harm is difficult to acquire . |
| 29 | She did n't want to talk or exclaim on the beauty of the view , and as though Matthew was also aware of their silent communication , he laid his hand gently on her shoulder . |
| 30 | Yolland thought that the only action needed was to cut down some of the trees in a young plantation in order to give people riding or driving on the turnpike a good view of an advancing train in the cutting . |