Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the show the band chill out in the car park , meeting Carpettes from around 16 , who got in on borrowed ID , to those in their mid-20s sucking on roaches who have just heard about the band along with The Charlatans UK ( ! ) and want their logo in felt tip on a T-shirt . |
| 2 | He is vehemently against the huge action replay screens tried out on English Test grounds this summer . |
| 3 | A large black dog in the middle of the waste-ground dined out on discarded chips . |
| 4 | I dropped in on long sessions of talk , putting the world to rights — after all that was supposed to be one of the main aspects of college education was n't it ? |
| 5 | And it came through on red Gordon ! |
| 6 | On collecting these names I began to wonder whether I was being taken in but so many came up on independent lists that the villagers sent in that I am sure they are authentic . |
| 7 | How longingly I recalled that other bed , with Sophocles beside it and Mary in it , as I camped out on unsavoury sacks among the dregs of humanity who were my new companions ! |
| 8 | Twenty thousand people camped out on common land for a music festival . |
| 9 | Frank Sinatra stars alongside Laurence Harvey in this wild , fearless look at political extremism played out on American soil after the Korean War . |
| 10 | Aide got off on wrong foot |
| 11 | Straggling columns of federal infantrymen and their local militia allies advanced unopposed on the suburbs of Visegrad as shells rained down on Muslim positions . |
| 12 | It 's previous incinerator was old and inefficient , not only belching out smoke but also the half burnt remains of used surgical dressings , and even patients confidential notes , which rained down on nearby gardens . |
| 13 | Last week Kathleen Turner and Joan Collins turned up on different nights to see the show at the Aldwych Theatre . |
| 14 | He was scornful , too , of the humanitarian-aid programme run for the contras by the State Department through the NHAO , which Owen familiarly called the ‘ no-way , no-how ’ and the ‘ no-hope programme ’ ; the State Department itself turned up on local code-sheets as ‘ wimps ’ , the CIA as ‘ assholes ’ , the portly Shultz as ‘ Nancy ’ . |
| 15 | THE actress mother of ‘ Home Alone ’ girl Gemma Gibson was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night from Spain . |
| 16 | THE ACTRESS mother of the ‘ home alone ’ girl , Gemma Gibson , was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night . |
| 17 | The community care Support Force swung in on hard-pressed SSDs with as much subtlety as a ton of bricks . |
| 18 | In the streets , vehicles clattered along on tyreless wheels , with the day not so far of– when even at the front the airforce would be forced to encase plane wheels in wooden clogs when being wheeled from the hangar , just to save precious rubber . |
| 19 | The campus buildings are based around five squares raised up on concrete stilts which were officially known as podia . |
| 20 | The huddle of noisy stalls in the back streets were a clamour of life and colour , selling diamanté , silk ribbons , radios , clothes , dead fish sliced up on cold slabs , snakes split down the middle , innards steaming on the bloodied stone floors , live birds in cages , killed with a hammer then plucked and sold , and thousand-year-old eggs streaked black and white with gaudy orange centres . |
| 21 | Theatre Hung up on toxic shocks Jean Cocteau meets Miles Davis in Robert Lepage 's solo show . |
| 22 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 23 | A slender pointed cellular disrupter swung out on skeletal brackets . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The afternoons he spent out on long walks or in South London attending classes on meditation . |
| 26 | Earwig , thankfully , are n't that retiring and introverted , blissed out on personal dreamscape excursions yes , but not painfully so . |
| 27 | A beggar , his face covered in sores , his legs cut off just beneath the knees , scampered about on wooden crutches . |
| 28 | Falling behind to a 30th minute goal from Doey , Armoy got back on level terms when Holmes scored a superb goal in the 50th minute . |
| 29 | This normally involves working either from a design laid out on squared paper or under the direction of an overseer ( or salim in Persian ) , who systematically calls out the colour of each knot as it is required . |
| 30 | There was Tizer and cream soda and beer and lassi to drink , all of it laid out on white tablecloths with tiny paper napkins for all of us . |