Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 2 | Although until late in 1912 Picasso and Braque lived in Montmartre and had relatively little contact with the other Cubists who lived mostly on the Left Bank or in the suburbs , they did not live in isolation . |
| 3 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 4 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 5 | The lucrative trade in duty-free goods with buyers from Argentina and Brazil , centred especially on the eastern border town of Ciudad del Este ( formerly Puerto Stroessner ) on the Rio Paraná , was buoyant in the second half of 1990 , but was threatened by the March 1991 decision of Argentina , Brazil , Paraguay and Uruguay to create a common market [ see p. 38096 ] . |
| 6 | The forward screen zoomed in on the slight figure of the target . |
| 7 | Edward did not create it from nothing , but he founded a new town — King 's Town — on the old site , which he manipulated especially on the western side . |
| 8 | There was a lump in her throat as she gazed down on the gaunt features . |
| 9 | Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac . |
| 10 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 11 | The two of them looked at it , as blood dripped down on the cold linoleum . |
| 12 | Outside , the sun beat down on the red baked earth of Provence , but the summer salon was cool . |
| 13 | He dwelt especially on the insulating and prophylactic properties of excessive flesh , remarking at one point , ‘ Without the upholstery of embonpoint the body is a mere skeletal spring , ready to uncoil its very mortality . ’ |
| 14 | Rain pattered gently on the unlined metal above , and he hoped it drowned his panting breath . |
| 15 | Evans 's heavy hand smacked down on the small man 's shoulder . |
| 16 | Again and again he bore down on the Annamese woman and as his movements quickened he kept his gaze fixed challengingly on Flavia Sherman 's face . |
| 17 | She bore down on the surprised Jane like a galleon in full sail and demanded , imperiously , what she intended to ‘ do ’ with the house . |
| 18 | Spell after spell crashed down on the Dark Elves , the carnage was too awful to contemplate . |
| 19 | My growing interest in China was whetted by the best-seller ‘ The Good Earth ’ by Pearl Buck , while the newspapers reported daily on the Japanese attack on China at Chapei . |
| 20 | They waded ashore on the Polynesian atoll of Raroia on 7 August 1947 just over three months after leaving Peru . |
| 21 | He drew up on the other side of the tall white gates and fished in his grey sack . |
| 22 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 23 | Huge crowds built up on the Western side of the Wall as West Berliners witnessed the historic developments , some even crossing over into the East for a walk . |
| 24 | Rune 's hands moved soothingly on the cool flesh of her arms , demanding her confidence . |
| 25 | Nearly all the earliest printed illustrations of American Indians concentrated obsessively on the gory details of their supposed cannibalism . |
| 26 | The bank rose sharply on the other side . |
| 27 | Gina sank back on the comfortable couch . |
| 28 | Dog transport was also the norm among the settled coastal Koryaks , Chukchis and Eskimos of the arctic regions of the extreme north-east , whose main source of food was walrus , seals and whales , to hunt which they ventured out on the cold arctic waters in boats made of walrus hide . |
| 29 | ITALIAN Fabrizio Tescari won his first World Cup race as defending champion Alberto Tomba crashed out on the second leg of yesterday 's slalom in Sestriere , Italy . |
| 30 | We then suggested that people create small groups in which individual responses could be gathered together and discussed before the chosen spokesperson reported back on the collective view . |