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 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Society is not hostile , it passes by on the other side . |
| 11 | Raven passes by on the other side of the street , but he do n't notice us . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The servant , a white-coated padder trained for the infrequent appearance of people like us , goes off on the long march to the kitchens . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 17 | Very occasionally one ends up on the wrong side of the Atlantic . |
| 18 | She likes to see the fastening , which means that for convenience , the shoe ends up on the wrong foot . |
| 19 | In this vacuum of real news , pressure builds up on the non-news programmes to fill the gap . |
| 20 | On the other side of Pottery Bridge , carrying the A639 , a sizable marine vessel sits up on the right bank . |
| 21 | Ampullaria glides along on the muscular foot , by means of muscular waves passing along its under surface . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Although new names have produced the successes , Longman falls back on the old to consolidate the same . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It finally eases off on the very top of Rudland Rigg , a majestic shoulder of land running north to south , with views right across the moors . |
| 27 | All I mean by forearm rotation is that the forearm rotates slightly to the left on the backswing so that the club moves up on the correct swing plane . |
| 28 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 29 | He is a great example to anyone who has a setback and it is marvellous to hear how he has put adversity behind him as he sets out on the long slog round the tough pro circuit once again . |
| 30 | ‘ Real people — Real problems — a human document ’ declared the poster for There Ai n't No Justice ( 1939 ) , about a boxer who walks out on the crooked world of the professional fighter . |