Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looking around the cobbled farmyard and at the farm buildings , the shelling and mortaring that went on during the attack on Breville had taken its toll . |
| 2 | Dogs can easily leap over it or get in through the hedge on the south side . |
| 3 | A legless beggar pulled himself along through the slush on wooden slats . |
| 4 | Others , their duties finished , were settling down for the night on their pallets in front of the fires . |
| 5 | Close behind is his son , Simon , who came along for the ride on his 1916 600cc Douglas , which falls outside the official December 1914 entry date . |
| 6 | With fellow Mud-man Steve Turner along for the ride on bass , Arm has hooked up with a pair of Seattle luminaries who , though hardly household names in these parts , provide such virile guitar bursts and songwriting savvy to vouchsafe our rightful respect from now on . |
| 7 | Field experiments with stuffed birds also demonstrate that different species of small birds all close in for the attack on a hated enemy — in this case not a predator but a cuckoo . |
| 8 | Again , the vice chancellor is nominally a deputy to the chancellor , but in reality is the chief academic and administrative officer of a university , in charge of its day-to-day running ( though he or she does also stand in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions ) . |
| 9 | The chief academic and administrative officer of a Scottish university , he or she is usually styled ‘ principal and vice chancellor ’ , the latter title used when standing in for the chancellor on ceremonial occasions . |
| 10 | When Frank heard that Michael thought of going in for the prize on this set book he was indignant and sent a message to Michael , ‘ Who in his senses would read a book by a bishop ? ’ |
| 11 | With Richard Dunwoody claimed for Gambling Royal , Graham McCourt is poised to step in for the ride on Grand National winner Party Politics . |
| 12 | The only rational explanation was that the stimulus of being struck must have initiated the whole dream sequence , which , although apparently very lengthy , must have proceeded fast enough to be fitted in between the blow on the neck and waking up . |
| 13 | Nemesis had still come down like the wolf on the fold . |
| 14 | There was a thin leather belt in amongst the mess on the floor , and he grabbed it on his way to the door . |
| 15 | The flare had drifted slowly down behind the church on the village green and was followed quickly by a long burst of automatic fire . |
| 16 | 3 Push down with the hand on the elbow , forcing your fingers to travel further down your spine . |
| 17 | Magpies chairman Sir John Hall said : ‘ He travelled down with the team on Tuesday but stayed overnight . |
| 18 | ‘ The poltergeist has tried to smother my boyfriend and we once found the baby 's cot turned upside down with the baby on the floor . |
| 19 | Misumenops nepenthicola , a spider , lives there and captures flies ; if these are distasteful they are ( sometimes ) thrown back into the pitcher ; if disturbed , the spider goes down into the liquid on a thread , its armour and a bubble of air making it immune to the digestive juices there . |
| 20 | Then , careless of the damage he did himself , he hoisted his bulk on to the sill , beat out the rest of the pieces of glass with his hand , and dropped down into the room on the other side . |
| 21 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 22 | The strongest piece of evidence we 've found so far is that piece of chain , which ties in with the attack on the gipsy girl . |
| 23 | If , however , he goes in with the public on that day , conceals himself , and takes the painting on the following day , he is not guilty . |
| 24 | Playboy Warren Beatty homes in with the dryer on Julie Christie in the film Shampoo . |
| 25 | Using an Ovation , hardly the most ‘ live ’ guitar in the business , I found that feedback on the undamped D string set in with the gain on 4 and the master volume on 5 , which surprised me . |
| 26 | The Spirit which rested upon him is now made over to them , along with the mission on which he was engaged ; this too is theirs . |
| 27 | Along with the sermon on the Mount , it was the favourite reading of Mahatma Gandhi and indeed both ( in very different ways ) encourage selfless devotion to others and the principle that the end does not justify the means . |
| 28 | Humming absent-mindedly along with the music on the radio as she sped on through the night , Shannon pursed her lips thoughtfully . |
| 29 | The only exception to this is when the crops are sold along with the land on which they are growing or to be grown . |
| 30 | Erm I go along with the brigadier on this , I do n't approve of any of the things I 've heard this evening , and I do n't believe that that is the normal course of action in the Army . |