Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title sits uneasily on a place which is , for very good reasons , unsure of its own identity . |
| 2 | He regretted the Opposition had not agreed a bipartisan policy and it had to be asked why they had no similar feelings about the forced repatriation of people from Hong Kong to China ‘ which goes on on every bitas big a scale as anything we are contemplating now ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ But what goes on on the terraces seems to be very simple and almost harmless compared with that Rugby Club of yours . ’ |
| 4 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 5 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 6 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 7 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 8 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 9 | You know , Bill always goes down on a Tuesday |
| 10 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 11 | The frame fits nicely on the top of the vat over the area not covered by the filter . |
| 12 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 13 | Paddy Cosgrove , councillor and barrister , in candidates ' pinstripes , sits tensely on the edge of his plastic chair . |
| 14 | Each of us lies somewhere on a spectrum of ability to show feeling which is reflected in our behaviour . |
| 15 | The character of a scent develops slowly on the skin as it notes come into play . |
| 16 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 17 | Derived from the Greek words phyllon ( leaf ) and xeros ( dry ) , the phylloxera lives only on the vine and can not survive on any other host . |
| 18 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
| 19 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 20 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 21 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 22 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 23 | , stands mischievously on the terrace walk , which looks over Ickworth park . |
| 24 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 25 | The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of successive Home Secretaries , carrying out the policies of what were then neo-fascist Conservative governments . |
| 26 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 27 | It lies exactly on the Equator near Lake Victoria among the Luo people and in the Diocese of Kisumu . |
| 28 | The track now heads southwards on a forest road and then heathery paths . |
| 29 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 30 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |