Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 2 | Also , when he gestured to me to sit down on the mats which covered the floor , I could not but observe two fairly fresh ( tuskless ) skulls above the door by which we had entered . |
| 3 | this one , look at the back , I think the reason it 's so big is to go in on the sockets at the back , put , you can put two tapes on it |
| 4 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 5 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 6 | The industrialist MP Samuel Morley and others persuaded him to stand down on the grounds that ministers should not directly enter the political arena and Morley paid all his expenses when he gave up the contest . |
| 7 | Thus all rations for the men at the front had to come up on the backs of other men . |
| 8 | She decided to go back to work — but first wanted to catch up on the qualifications she 'd missed out on . |
| 9 | It will also provide a ‘ dip in service ’ for those who wish to catch up on the headlines , the business needs , the travel , the weather and other key information each hour . |
| 10 | This enabled the banks to pull out on the grounds that involvement was not commercially justifiable . |
| 11 | Did they want him to crack down on the rioters ? |
| 12 | At once the crabber began to bounce about on the waves , as though the Angharad was dancing a jig over the water in her pleasure at taking a trip . |
| 13 | The horses could n't get inside the church , so the doors were left open for them to look in on the proceedings . |
| 14 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 15 | Few who 've seen Pool of late will doubt their ability to sneak up on the rails , as they did last season , as a surprise late success in the promotion race . |
| 16 | The shabby room above the tobacconist 's shop where we held our ward meetings became home to me and , in a queer way , made me feel whole and integrated again so that I began to look back on the activities I had taken part in with Sophie as some kind of mental aberration . |
| 17 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 18 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 19 | Their faces took on a different expression ; they grew more spruce and upright of bearing , ceased to loll about on the tables or against the walls , and held themselves up . |
| 20 | I was going to have to ease up on the Slammers . |
| 21 | The older child , 3 , likes to go out on a waveski , sitting between dad 's legs . |
| 22 | Jochen and Elke warn Fabian not to go out on the streets on 7 October for the 40th anniversary of the formation of East Germany , and for God 's sake not to demonstrate . |
| 23 | They are likely to be allowed less freedom to go out on the streets and stay out late . |
| 24 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 25 | WE spend thousands of pounds on road safety , yet the DoE are allowed to go out on the roads and lay a spraying of tar then scatter shovels full of loose stones on top of it . |
| 26 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 27 | Chile is Britain 's oldest ally in the Southern Hemisphere … and the Falcons were determined not to miss out on the celebrations to mark the 75th birthday of the Royal Air Force . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 30 | The constituent legislation of other tribunals contains provisions allowing access to the High Court , whereas some tribunals have to fall back on the appeals contained in s.13 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 . |