Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malcolm got right on the phone with him and sorted it out . |
| 2 | Ten Trekkies got down on the floor to play this , some still wearing Federation anoraks , which seemed to be cheating somewhat . |
| 3 | She got down on the floor and ran her arm under the bookcase . |
| 4 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 5 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 6 | Even the Prime Minister , Stanley Baldwin , got in on the act , speculating upon ‘ the enormous power which the film is developing for propaganda purposes , and the danger to which we in this country and our Empire subject ourselves if we allow that method of propaganda to be entirely in the hands of foreign countries . ’ |
| 7 | Stephen Pullan and Iain Pyman both gave further evidence of the strength of Sand Moor by upstaging clubmate Cage with 68s , while Stephen Burnell ( Brickendon Grange ) and Stoneham 's Alan Mew got in on the act by matching the exacting par of 69 . |
| 8 | Every accusation was thrown at the team , even Tunisia got in on the act . |
| 9 | Second row Paul Warwick got in on the act and full-back David Rowledge stretched the lead to 27–11 with a penalty to add to his earlier conversions . |
| 10 | However , this was before the astronomers , notably Professor Alexander Thom , got in on the act . |
| 11 | After the home club and Southend took the top places , Colchester Joggers got in on the act with the team bronze , a first for the club over this distance . |
| 12 | By the time Adidas and Umbro got in on the act in the late-Seventies , a shirt could be carrying up to 40 little advertisements for the manufacturers , less than subtly integrated into the stripes . |
| 13 | Even their parents got in on the act , when the Mercedes hired to take them to the reception blew up . |
| 14 | The F–104 and T–33 also got in on the act , all are now based at Oshkosh . |
| 15 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 16 | Visitors Centre assistant information officer got in on the act when she bravely volunteered for a Harris Hawk to land on her arm . |
| 17 | Now when the Chancellor in the budget said that he would help the poor he stopped short , there were no copper bottomed no copper bottom guarantee and then later on we had Michael Portillo got in on the act . |
| 18 | Even the Granada announcer got in on the act . |
| 19 | Yesterday the Scottish Landowners ' Federation also got in on the act , claiming that the quota sale had confirmed fears about value . |
| 20 | So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that . |
| 21 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 22 | The Welsh international Dean Saunders also got in on the hat-trick act as Derby County overturned a 2-1 deficit against Cambridge United with a 5-0 victory to leave them 6-2 overall winners . |
| 23 | After just two days on the market , the software group has shot up from 70p to 113p — great news for the institutions who got in on the ground floor . |
| 24 | Tilda appeared with a ball of oozing clay in her arms which she flung down on the table . |
| 25 | Robbie , her own eyes avoiding that scrutiny , looking anywhere but at him , noticed a pair of pyjama trousers slung carelessly on the floor . |
| 26 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 27 | For this reason , when asked to host a Commonwealth conference in Ottawa , the Canadian government agreed only on the condition that the USA was also invited , to avoid charges of ‘ ganging up ’ . |
| 28 | After long discussions with Prof Spitz and his team , who had performed two similar operations before , the Holtons agreed only on the basis that each child would have an equal chance and organs would be shared equally . |
| 29 | From the roof bar of the Pasha Inn , we gazed down on the harbour . |
| 30 | ‘ We and the Big Ones lived only on the savannah . |