Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] the [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bills seeking to exclude various categories of placemen from Parliament were introduced on average once every session between 1692 and 1714 , and a general measure banning all placemen from the Commons found its way into the Act of Settlement of 1701 ( which laid down the conditions on which the Hanoverians would succeed to the throne ) , although this provision was subsequently modified before the Act came into effect . |
| 2 | But she laid down the rebec on her knees , and looked up at Bénezet with a fiercely thoughtful face . |
| 3 | He put his arm through the handle of the basket , picked up the oil-lamp and moved down the hall on slippered feet . |
| 4 | David Nellis beat down the flames on Mr Morton 's back with his bare hands outside D and R Repairs , Telford Road , Cargo Fleet , Middlesbrough . |
| 5 | She lined up the sights on her rifle on its empty front foot and fired twice . |
| 6 | By way of reply , Connor walked across the room , drew back the bolts on the street door and flung it open . |
| 7 | She reached inside the neck of her sweater and drew out the key on its chain . |
| 8 | Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees . |
| 9 | SHe snorted smoke and ground out the cigarette on the floor . |
| 10 | Taking out a pencil , she noted down the number on a piece of paper , and then peeped cautiously into the back of the car . |
| 11 | We weighed anchor next morning and sailed down the fiord on a calm sea . |
| 12 | Several days before these events a ship came up the Ankh on the dawn tide and fetched up , among many others , in the maze of wharves and docks on the Morpork shore . |
| 13 | She played back the messages on her answerphone and jotted down the numbers and names of the men who had called : Tony , Ali , Geoff , and Junior . |
| 14 | ‘ Do n't be so silly , ’ came back the answer on the crest of a belch . |
| 15 | She thumbed back the catches on her web . |
| 16 | Shoulder to shoulder with the bankers of the City of London , Snowden fought off the attack on economic internationalism , while , with the Cabinet refusing to follow through the full deflationary logic of the Treasury approach to the slump , Britain drifted into financial crisis . |
| 17 | The room was hot when he entered , and he turned down the thermostat on the wall . |
| 18 | That inquiry turned down the application on the grounds that the mink farmers could not guarantee that mink would not escape . |
| 19 | The Civic Society was naturally very pleased t that we the council turned down the application on the National Power site . |
| 20 | Those working with severely-handicapped youngsters will celebrate as landmarks advances that are barely perceptible to the uninitiated : ‘ Sally turned over the page on her own today ! ’ |
| 21 | The 69-year-old man , from Elsdon Street , handed over the cash on odd occasions over the past year . |
| 22 | My father turned up the ring on the cooker under the soup-pan , looking beneath the lid into the warming mixture and then turning back to look at me . |
| 23 | She ignored him , and turned up the sound on the telly . |
| 24 | When Jaq turned up the gain on his sensor , static flooded it . |
| 25 | Watson , who turned to crime after moving to London , slumped in the dock of Inner London Crown Court as Judge Brian Pryor handed out the sentence on Monday . |
| 26 | A car dealer turned back the mileometer on a car and then put up a notice that the mileage " may not be correct " . |
| 27 | Facing this triangular space , created for the benefit of traders , the abbot divided up the land on either side into a series of narrow plots on which traders and others were encouraged to settle permanently , building their houses with timber and other materials provided by him . |
| 28 | So there you were sitting around in luxury at Zimmerman 's when somebody walked into the hospital and finished off the job on Jack Mahoney . ’ |
| 29 | Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father 's arm . |
| 30 | France yesterday stepped up the pressure on the Government to join the ERM . |