Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 2 | The whole mountain chain originated from this cleft as lava surged up and spilled down on both sides . |
| 3 | We were living in a period of change and he wanted to avoid the danger of rejecting courses of action merely because they had been considered and turned down on some earlier occasion during his leadership . |
| 4 | With an inconvenient house and stuck out on that headland with nothing to look at but a ruined abbey and that atomic power station they 'll have to put up with what they can get . ’ |
| 5 | The world number two saw a splash after topping his drive on La Moraleja 's 414-yard fifth hole , but the ball had only skimmed the surface and finished back on dry land . |
| 6 | As they flew over the house and looked down on colourful gardens she could see a pool of some considerable size , glittering greenly in the sun , tubs of geraniums around it . |
| 7 | He got up and came at me with surprising speed , but suddenly the Hispaniola hit the sand and went over on one side . |
| 8 | Joe placed the bowl of water on the linoleum floor , took the discarded flannel from the bedside table and went down on one knee to apply treatment . |
| 9 | Miguel saw that he was getting nowhere , and gave up on that topic . |
| 10 | He sat down on the rug in front of the Anywhithers and leaned back on straight arms , gazing up at the sky . |
| 11 | I tested a few planks carefully with the weight of my hand , then retreated and stood up on safer ground . |
| 12 | ‘ Then came the day when I snapped off my Marigolds , flung them in the marbleised pedal bin — well it was n't marbleised then , but it is now — and set off on this glittering career . |
| 13 | The British ambassador in Washington was consulted on a number of occasions by Kennedy , and sat in on top-level sessions of the US National Security Council . |
| 14 | Zambia grunted uncomfortably and sat down on one of the couches . |
| 15 | They left , and Orcadai righted two stools and sat down on one of them . |
| 16 | Inanna made a bitter sound and sat down on tapestried coverlet . |
| 17 | Men who had been asleep and were woken up by the noise did not appear to resent it but sat up on one elbow and stared . |
| 18 | In the girls ' event , Catherine Wittenberg ( Kent ) , consolidated her position as leader of the Reebok 12 and under Grand Prix table by reaching the final , but missed out on maximum points when she lost to Claire Sewell ( York ) 6–4 6–1 . |