Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No , I think it would have been easier just to take his word for it that I 'd boobed , fallen down on the job . |
| 2 | Production day supervisor Bob Hodson illustrated the point : ‘ ICI phoned earlier to say the tanker with the morning delivery of phenol had broken down on the motorway and would n't be here until four o'clock . |
| 3 | A bi-partisan approach to foreign policy could be maintained in the most momentous ever commitment in US foreign policy , the North Atlantic Pact , but it had broken down on the issue of China even if ‘ the attack of the primitives ’ , as Acheson put it , had as much to do with Truman 's unexpected victory in the presidential election in 1948 and the consequent fury and frustration of the Republican Party . |
| 4 | Juan Sosa , former Panamanian ambassador in Washington , said that , if the US had been ‘ more active ’ , several battalions of wavering Panamanian troops would have joined in on the rebel side . |
| 5 | Gran has joined in on the act . |
| 6 | A major supermarket has just unveiled four new Teenage Mutant Hero Turtle pizzas and Dr Mumby says the way the foodmakers have jumped in on the Turtle band-wagon is wrong . |
| 7 | So I mean , er , I 'm I 'm really stumped down on the course , because erm , you know , all all my usual but jokes seem to be here , I mean |
| 8 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 9 | Unmistakably , though , he has come down on the side of the demonstrators and against Erich Honecker , the East German leader . |
| 10 | During August , Russia 's Constitutional Court had come down on the side of Izvestiya and Yeltsin , while the Prosecutor 's Office and the Russian Federal Property Fund had unsuccessfully supported the Supreme Soviet . |
| 11 | Now there was some dispute over whether Berlin or Bonn should be the capital , they 've come down on the side of Berlin , but is that dispute settled now ? |
| 12 | Her hand had come down on the spider and it had bitten her . |
| 13 | Toby , on the other hand , just looked in on the way to the boarding annexe , and popped straight out again , while Corbett Farraday had no particular fear of the boys — were n't they all boys together at Burleigh ? and stayed in the Staff Common Room for no other reason than to work himself up to an approach to Penny . |
| 14 | She had not looked in on the gallery this visit . |
| 15 | Descending the stone steps from the station platform , Durham turned up the gas and had just sat down on the bench and opened his bait tin when he was startled by the apparition of a strange man followed by a large black retriever dog emerging from the coal cellar . |
| 16 | One or two of the demonstrating ladies had sat down on the pavement ( they should never have shown Gandhi on TV ) and were singing ‘ the one with the waggerly tail … ’ with gusto . |
| 17 | A new board is voted in on the promise that they 'll get a better deal . |
| 18 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 19 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 20 | John was astounded to learn Carol had entered him in the competition only mum Linda was let in on the secret . |
| 21 | The next day , he telephoned Al Clark , asking that Music Week be let in on the joke . |
| 22 | Angelica 's thinking that a bag of garbage has probably been carried along on the night swell and has become caught up amongst the pillars and the metal cross-tics ; there will always be somebody who 'll think that a couple of heavy stones and a drop out over the deepest part of the lake are an adequate way of disposing of all their empty cans and peelings and plate-scrapings . |
| 23 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 24 | The October revolution had been carried through on the assumption that Russia , although a relatively backward country and hardly ‘ ripe ’ for revolution in a Marxist sense , could help to bring about a European and later a worldwide transition to a communist social order . |
| 25 | Curiously , he was not deported , a sentence which in the two years immediately after the war was handed down to at least fifty young people who had come over on the Kindertransporte . |
| 26 | Solid , castellated , and colonnaded for much of its length , it suddenly takes off into a free-flowing fantasy of spires and spirelets , as if two different architects ' designs had got mixed up on the drawing-board . |
| 27 | Space for a raiding party was limited , and jolting across the sand perched up on the back was extremely uncomfortable . |
| 28 | There was absolutely no point in having two hundred people perched up on the road looking down on the top of a marquee . |
| 29 | perched up on the roof surrounded by |
| 30 | Police numbers had doubled , two ambulances had somehow squeezed up on the hill , and the drivers and passengers were out of their Glories , milling around in confusion . |