Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 4 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 5 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 6 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 7 | From a gusty somewhere , God looks down on a world |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 12 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 13 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 14 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 15 | Spurs , Chaps and a Stetson are all she needs out on the range . |
| 16 | Today , as Patricia , now 17 , sets about rebuilding her life , she looks back on the experience with a mixture of hatred , bitterness , anger and irony . |
| 17 | Prudence has three heads , a youth 's which looks towards the future , a mature man 's which looks at the present , and an old man 's which looks back on the past with the wisdom of experience . |
| 18 | The video looks back on the occupation of Latin America by Europeans and draws attention to the present situation of the millions of people throughout the continent who are suffering poverty and disease . |
| 19 | The more one looks back on the record the more one is impressed by the role of Mrs Thatcher as a dominant figure and as an illustration of the power of the Prime Minister . |
| 20 | The church tower stands out on the skyline in the middle of the village and the church dates from the 14th century , though extensively restored and to some extent rebuilt in Victorian times . |
| 21 | This came as something of a surprise , for nothing Victor Saunders had told me about the Priut refuge quite prepared me for my first sight of this three-storey silver sausage — an amazing futuristic construction with a dining room that looks out on a wonderland of peaks , and with some four-bedded dormitories which , if you 're lucky enough to be allocated one , ensures a degree of comfort far different from alpine-style overcrowding . |
| 22 | The lounge bar looks out on the garden with two doors giving access to the terrace and seats some 100 persons . |
| 23 | He shrugs and lies back on the bed . |
| 24 | If our bat is Myotis , one of the common little brown bats , we shall hear a chuntering of clicks at a rate of about 10 per second as the bat cruises about on a routine mission . |
| 25 | Just lies about on the beach all day and fucks every female in sight . |
| 26 | A seven-spot ladybird bears down on a group of hapless aphids |
| 27 | Without warning , Laverne raises his hands in the air , yells at the top of his voice , and bears down on the snake . |
| 28 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 29 | But whatever happens out on the field , the triumph of Italian culture , style and fashion is already assured . |
| 30 | The board spins around on the tail with some assistance from the rig . |