Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 2 | She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair . |
| 3 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 4 | Place chairs round in a circle and ask one sex , say the girls , to sit down on the chairs . |
| 5 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 6 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
| 7 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 10 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 11 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 12 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 13 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | I were just so psyched up on Wednesday and then I had to go in on the Friday before so I did n't |
| 16 | In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 17 | Tim Robbins , it was rumoured , might wish his American publicist to sit in on the conversation . |
| 18 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Opening the meeting of the Economic Planning Council , the Chairman , Lord Hampshire , surprised members by announcing that the Prime Minister intended to sit in on the transport debate , which was the subject of a White Paper about to be discussed on the floor of the House . |
| 21 | The sun was beginning to float down on the mountains , and the sea glittered lazily at the foot of their ashy , opaque shadows . |
| 22 | We used to slide down on a tray , though we were in trouble if he caught us , mind ! |
| 23 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |
| 24 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 25 | And course that used t that used to go down on the bed and when you pulled that be there so many years , your hands all went purple and that 'd be days before that went off . |
| 26 | To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild , abandoned love to her . |
| 27 | If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk . |
| 28 | Well you 'll have to come in on the way ho |
| 29 | The local police kindly agreed to come in on the act and a few off-duty policemen pretended to stalk the burglars and locked them up for the night at a disused police station at Ironbridge ! |
| 30 | They had actually chosen themselves to come in on the study and so they were obviously schools which were particularly interested in involving parents as much as they could , and erm they would all certainly have done as , probably as much as most schools in the country are doing as , as far as involving parents are concerned , both in having parent helpers in the classrooms , and in having organisations for parents and social events for parents of the , of the fundraising type . |