Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 2 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 3 | I sat down on a rock in the golden air and stared at the vast expanse of glassy blue and listened to the sucking and lapping . |
| 4 | She sat down on a chair in the hall beside the telephone . |
| 5 | And that was exactly my remedy for him earlier this year when , face down on a bench in Augusta 's locker-room , Olazabal shielded the grief of failure in the US Masters . |
| 6 | Xanthe sucked each leaf of her artichoke thoroughly , leaving precise teeth marks above the fleshy pad , then laid each one down on a plate in overlapping circles until she 'd formed a rosette , a second artichoke that looked almost untouched . |
| 7 | A body did n't change if it had been blasted with an automatic weapon in a robbery on Lenox Square or gunned down on a sidewalk in Athens . |
| 8 | Half an hour later I stopped the car , got out , sat down on a bank in an empty green world and admitted to myself that I was lost . |
| 9 | The barn owl can swoop down on a mouse in total darkness , guided only by a faint rustle in the undergrowth . |
| 10 | Making a fist Michael smashed it down on the desk in front of him , causing their empty coffee cups to rattle in their saucers . |
| 11 | Well I know Bon said er they 'd they 'd cut down on the recruiting in fact , I think they 'd closed one of the hospitals in Bristol in the Frenchay where she is has actually got to take erm qualified nurses from that hospital before they take student nurses that they 've trained |
| 12 | She lifted Albert 's arms from the table , sat herself promptly down on the newspaper in front of Albert and let his arms fall on each side of her . |
| 13 | They were made to lie down on the floor in the back . |
| 14 | They set it down on the floor in the middle of the room , as the T'ang had instructed them earlier , then backed away , heads lowered . |
| 15 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 16 | When the telephone rang Leonora got up listlessly , so certain it would be one of Elise 's friends that she slid down on the floor in a heap , heart thumping , at the sound of Penry 's voice . |
| 17 | One hot night he came home drunk and lay down on the flower-bed in the garden just outside the studio and fell fast asleep . |
| 18 | If a bird had looked down on the quarry in the next few seconds it would have been amazed . |
| 19 | Down on the beach in Costa Teguise , you can organise windsurfing lessons the island is one of the sport 's top venues . |
| 20 | It was a little plane , and it was going to come down on the road in front of the prison ! |
| 21 | Directional desk or table lamps for working by should be adjusted to let light shine down on the work in question . |
| 22 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 23 | Mr Azul bucks up and down on the bed in a bizarre parody of sexual energy . |
| 24 | The various relations did n't have time to help the bride because they had to get themselves ready , and when Ellie knocked on Terry 's door to offer her own help she found the bride-to-be face down on the bed in floods of tears . |
| 25 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 26 | Having contemplated the pro 's and con 's Darwin came down on the side in favour of marriage . |
| 27 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 28 | She watched him go back to the kitchen and when he had shut the living room door firmly , she sank down on the rug in front of the gas fire with her back propped against the armchair and sipped gloomily at the wine . |
| 29 | He sat down on the rug in front of the Anywhithers and leaned back on straight arms , gazing up at the sky . |
| 30 | I lay down on the rug in front of the fire and dozed off . |