Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the light of the fires he could see Paul already sitting cross-legged on a buffalo skin by the pholy , and he sank gratefully down on the other side of him . |
| 2 | Wang Sau-leyan turned , indicating the ancient , rusted sign bolted high up on the trunk of a nearby juniper . |
| 3 | I rolled out like a ball but sneaked back in on the back seat . |
| 4 | Every detail was picked out by the floodlights mounted high up on the walls behind protective grilles . |
| 5 | Tossing his case over the top of it , he scrambled up and dropped lightly down on the other side . |
| 6 | For the third time this greatest of Scottish Protestant heroes , whose name has lived for four centuries as the architect of Scottish religious life ( not to say the strict bleakness of that life ) , whose statue in Edinburgh gazed balefully down on the meeting between pope and moderator of the General Assembly of the Kirk in 1982 , and whose inordinately lofty statue in the Glasgow Necropolis lours at patients in the upper stories of the Royal Infirmary , made a strenuous effort not to return to his native country at all . |
| 7 | On 18 May a deep pit-like hole opened high up on the volcano , east of the Main Crater , at a height of 2,980 metres . |
| 8 | Franco , too , knew that as long as he kept the lid of repression screwed tightly down on the Left , his fiercest opponents would never be able to constitute a serious threat . |
| 9 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 10 | The most outstanding decorative element of the Mausoleum was the series of massive free-standing sculptures arranged high up on the podium of the monument , executed in fine marble . |
| 11 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 12 | They fell upon the red hour-glass painted on Big Momma 's abdomen as she swung down a thread of silk and revolved slowly round on the thread until she had landed on a flat shiny surface . |
| 13 | The Lady Prioress slumped wearily down on the stool as Corbett questioned her about Dame Frances ' death . |
| 14 | At Monaco , a race which Hunt does not greatly admire — since the race is meaningless if one is not well up on the grid at the start and passing is well-nigh impossible — he qualified well back on the grid , spun in frustration and then had his engine blow on him . |
| 15 | Now that was the time when first daylight on Bristol , and we heard the bombers go up , and I went home out on the tram car , and there were the young ones just screaming down into the city , I said , ’ good grief , those bombers have hit something ’ , and it was Filton Aeroplane , people had direct hits on shelters you see . |
| 16 | He sighed with disappointment and lay carefully back on the straw pallet . |
| 17 | Pavel 's was a city dawn , seen from the rear seat of the unmarked car as they circled back in on the motorway network toward their base near the airport . |
| 18 | Mistakenly , he thought that the figures he saw high up on the furthest rocks were working the rich secrets of the plumbago or wadd mine . |
| 19 | They scrabbled furiously about on the floor . |
| 20 | Lucy leaned further back on the sofa , and took a thoughtful drink of her tea . |
| 21 | However , conditions for the time of the year seemed favourable and I was in hopeful mood as I rowed carefully out on the meadow side to a drop-off at about 70 yards I knew to be there . |
| 22 | Jessie had come out of No. 3 and now sat stiffly down on the step beside him . |
| 23 | He sat back down on the bed . |
| 24 | He sat back down on the sofa with a bored expression on his face . |
| 25 | That was all done by Shrub , who sat far out on the neck of the leading goose . |
| 26 | He found his arm grasped gently but firmly , and pushed back down on the bed cover . |
| 27 | On the foreign exchanges , the pound was firmer against the dollar , closing at one dollar point nine five three five , but it closed fractionally down on the stronger Mark at two Deutschmarks point nine three three one . |
| 28 | ‘ All the people in this valley is descended from four brothers from Scotland called Leekie , ’ Nana sat heavily down on the upright rush-seated chair which was the most she would permit herself in the way of comfort , and began the tale as Martha had always heard her tell it . |