Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see , I mean it 's good to see really that er test match has been dom well almost dominated at the moment , by , by a slow bowler , it 's an ideal situation for in England , batsmen done their job , England are in command , got lots of runs to play with , but it 's definitely the left arm spinner who 's causing the , the greatest problem out there , he 's , he 's landing it in the right place , he likes variation in that over , confident enough looks very tempted , always very difficult to come in at first twenty minutes as a batsman , when you 've come in on a turning wicket , a very , very , difficult . |
| 2 | Just before airtime , a story had come in on a drug bust : space was hastily made for this . |
| 3 | But Vinnie 's man with his head staved in on a patch of waste ground near Deptford Station does not get mentioned . |
| 4 | I 've just sat down on a hairbrush ! ’ |
| 5 | He began to talk again about Stephen handing him the wedding-dress , how he 'd walked away with it and had then sat down on a seat on the promenade , not wanting to go on with his act any more . |
| 6 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 7 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 8 | He 'd never looked down on a human before . |
| 9 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 10 | Then it was not until 1861 that the Union for the Completion of the Cathedral started its work , carried along on a wave of Romantic nationalism . |
| 11 | To hell with the risk , I had three minutes to create an impact ( being carried off on a stretcher should do it ) . |
| 12 | Bjornebye , signed by manager Graeme Souness for £600,000 last month , will be out for at least three weeks after he was carried off on a stretcher with concussion while on international duty against China . |
| 13 | Stamina ( 15 credits ) : If a player runs out of energy or stamina , he 'll be carried off on a stretcher . |
| 14 | MANCHESTER UNITED 's £1 million powerhouse Dion Dublin 's Old Trafford dream turned into a nightmare last week — carried off on a stretcher with a shattered leg . |
| 15 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |
| 16 | Here is Earth , clad in what looks disconcertingly like a badly crocheted red dress , here is a stage where an eerie pale yellow orange light plays over small details of figures , and here is a child carried off on a pole — one in a series of victims in the sacrificial Rite Of Spring . |
| 17 | It was a large room , totally silent save for the voice of one Sister perched up on a pulpit in the end wall , reading portions of the scriptures . |
| 18 | The little house , its walls cosily cluttered with treasures of old photos and watercolours was perched up on a hill directly above the old pier , its verandah giving a Raj-like quality and view on life . |
| 19 | The industry of Gijón and Asturias followed , and shortly afterwards the airfield at Asturias , perched up on a hill . |
| 20 | And just as everybody who looked to that serpent on the pole was healed , so I am gon na be lifted up on a cross and everybody who looks in faith to me , and in obedience receives my gift of forgiveness , they will be saved ! |
| 21 | It was picked up on a £300 scanner near Andrew 's naval base at Portland , Dorset . |
| 22 | Lucy had curled up on a pile of old throwouts in the corner of the Wardrobe department , and had pulled some of them over herself like a burrowing animal . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's like being caught up on a bit of barbed wire . ’ |
| 24 | Clothes were pegged out on a line , nothing of his own . |
| 25 | DNA restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis was carried out on a primary and recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in a hepatitis B virus negative patient . |
| 26 | Professor J. P. Payne of the Department of Anaesthetics at the Royal College of Surgeons insists that a research nurse should always be present when tests are carried out on a patient . |
| 27 | The aim is to elucidate some of the methods by which entrepreneurial decisions are reached and entrepreneurial activities carried out on a day to day basis . |
| 28 | The most severe tests have already been carried out on a man and a woman , unconnected with the project , last week . |
| 29 | In one large-scale study , the secondary mathematics project ‘ CSMS ’ ( Hart , 1981 ) , extensive interviewing was carried out on a range of mathematical topics , and the strategies that pupils used were identified . |
| 30 | Inspection is usually carried out on a sampling basis but 100% inspection is also common . |