Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One man who could have a busy day on Sunday if he drops in on the above conference will be Michael Billington , the theatre critic of The Guardian . |
| 2 | Looks down on the needy and the greedy now . ’ |
| 3 | His father had died serving the Empire as one of the Black Riders and as the boy looks down on the great imperial road from the quiet house of his foster-parents he listens to tales of the powerful Count Jasper , Governor of the Citadel and commander of those orthodox forces . |
| 4 | but looks down on the unchanged saffron flowers |
| 5 | My daughter lives over on the main Oxford road . |
| 6 | To a backdrop of deserted stands , Andrew Hudson becomes the first South African to score a hundred on his Test debut : ( below ) Curtly Ambrose mops up on the final day , bowling Meyrick Pringle . |
| 7 | This one now , er again hits him Mahammama on the pad , trickles out on the off side and Goch picks it up from extra cover . |
| 8 | Gargy Patel looks back on the first twelve months of the motorway completed after two decades of delay . |
| 9 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 10 | In fact the son 's military train , despite the fact that it has priority ( a hangover from the days of the armoured trains ) , only passes through on the following day , when his mother has left . |
| 11 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
| 12 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
| 13 | He passes by on the other side of the road and once he 's well past I pop up to watch him through the rear window . |
| 14 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 15 | A thunderous , psychedelicious affair , ‘ The Storm ’ floats along on the ghostly groove , touching on early '80 's electro pop , a late-'80s dance feel and even the danker ends of the late-'60s trip , while the B-side offers a spruced-up version of The Rolling Stones ' ‘ She 's A Rainbow ’ . |
| 16 | A thunderous , psychedelicious affair , ‘ The Storm ’ floats along on the ghostly groove , touching on early '80 's electro pop , a late-'80s dance feel and even the danker ends of the late-'60s trip , while the B-side offers a spruced-up version of The Rolling Stones ' ‘ She 's A Rainbow ’ . |
| 17 | Faster than a machine gun , it can reach peak rates of 200 pulses per second as the bat finally closes in on the moving target . |
| 18 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 19 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 20 | THE flag goes up on the 1993 Eastern Centre Motorcycle Grass Track racing season on Sunday at Brazils Farm , Woodham Ferrers , near Chelmsford . |
| 21 | Mansell 's Newman-Haas team-mate Mario Andretti lines up on the first row after finishing second fastest qualifier with 223.414 mph . |
| 22 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 23 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 24 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 25 | Salim leaves them , takes off on the first of a series of ‘ flights ’ , and treks to the interior , to a country which appears to be compounded of the Congo and of Uganda , in order to earn a living from a store which he has acquired from a man whose daughter he is expected to marry one day . |
| 26 | ‘ He will be satisfied if he gets back on the Irish team , but it is not possibility he could push himself right to the forefront . ’ |
| 27 | Mum , I do n't want that one then she goes back on the three , goes , yeah ? |
| 28 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
| 29 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 30 | He falls back on the popular device for explaining why the working class fail to live up to what is expected of them — they are reduced to mindless automatons , responding only to right-wing media messages . |