Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] on the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 2 | IN MRS Barrass ' description of ‘ hunting horror ’ ( HAS Jan 29 ) it is difficult to believe that the couple running up and down egging on the hounds ( not dogs , please ) were real hunt supporters . |
| 3 | The terrier allowed himself to be dragged down to lie on the blankets , and Theda was able to see her new mistress in the light afforded by a lamp on her bedside table and a set of two candelabra resting on a nearby chest of drawers . |
| 4 | High on Victoria Peak , it overlooked the city through a faint mist , the sun breaking through to gleam on the skyscrapers and the bay below . |
| 5 | We 're asking that you test the temperature of your politicians that offer themselves up to stand on the councils , and we believe that being a good environmentalist aids all of their political life and er saving the environment now will save money in the future . |
| 6 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 7 | How much memory it takes up depends on the applications being run , comments IBM . |
| 8 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 9 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 10 | Arthur Newsholme , the Chief Medical Officer to the Local Government Board , believed it would be ‘ folly ’ to infer from Campbell 's report that ‘ the industrial occupation of mothers is not a most injurious element in our social life ’ , and in 1919 the Women 's Employment Committee of the Ministry of Reconstruction , set up to advise on the opportunities for women 's employment after the war , expressed the hope that ‘ every inducement , direct or indirect , will be given to keep mothers at home ’ . |
| 11 | The heiress travels to Florida for some yachting but her sloop is run down and sunk by one of her own commercial schooners ; she is saved but she has lost her memory ; she ends up working on the cutting-tables in her own factory and falls in love with a manager whose previous requests for better conditions she had been happy to ignore . |
| 12 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 13 | They come out to feed on the insects and other invertebrates that swarm on the soft oozy surface of the mud . |
| 14 | Finally , if you find your mind wanders on to other thoughts during the exercise bring it back to focus on the feelings . |
| 15 | Regression analyses were carried out based on the results of both otoscopy and tympanometry but only those for otoscopic findings are reported to avoid repetition . |
| 16 | On Mondays the wash was hung out to dry on the clotheslines at the end of the kitchen-garden nearest to the house . |
| 17 | Before this game we were told that this was the poorest Irish team in memory , that Irish rugby was in the doldrums and that the swashbuckling French were about to turn on the after-burners and skyrocket into the stratosphere . |
| 18 | The joker exaggerated Lilley 's plight , but gave an indication of a dilemma he was about to face on the hustings . |
| 19 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |