Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Floy and Snodgrass watched in silence , the Elms stretched out their hard , lichen-crusted branches and brought them down on the prisoner 's shoulders and thighs , at the place where the skin had started to tear . |
| 2 | The Daughter dodged an elbow thrust , and brought the majorette rod down on the Sandrat 's back . |
| 3 | ‘ Do n't you know it 's an offence to lie down on the King 's highway and make yourself a danger to passing traffic ? ’ |
| 4 | In all I think I only insisted on one cut to anything he did , and that was the fight between the two cavemen in the first story which ended with one of them smashing a rock down on the other 's head . |
| 5 | This time there was no knife , they just got him on the floor and it was just a fist which had come down on the man 's face again and again . |
| 6 | She looked down on the men 's masks and costumes , listening to their chatter , and stayed silent . |
| 7 | Elsewhere there are Breughels ; walls covered with Delft tiles ; a medieval belfry with 366 steps from which you can gaze down on the town 's steep , red tiled roofs ; holy blood brought back from the crusades . |
| 8 | ‘ The first man I hear saying anything bad about our mistress will receive this in his face , ’ and he banged his great heavy hand down on the maltster 's table . |
| 9 | Then , with a final look at Sung , Peskova turned and brought the rock down on the woman 's upper arm . |
| 10 | The sun was high in the sky and beating down on the mourners ' heads . |
| 11 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
| 12 | They include poor handling and breaking in , anxiety or excitement , resentment of a particular form of work or a rider who bumps up and down on the horse 's back , or , of course , the horse may just simply prefer not to be ridden ! |
| 13 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 14 | While the force inside the stockade could batter the attackers from behind its stout fence , another detachment of men could steal out and close in on the attackers ' flank on the landward side ; the Rebecca 's guns covered the beach below the settlement , so they would not be able to make their approach from the beach , unless they discounted major losses of life . |
| 15 | George Bush could now cash in on the country 's post-war confidence by launching another war on the black home-front . |
| 16 | In the mandatory pre-fight squabbling , ITN 's Stewart Purvis lambasted the swing-ometer as ‘ a two-dimensional 1970s device ’ , and Horrocks chose to home in on the opposition 's choice of untried Jon Snow as their E-night pivot . |
| 17 | Yesterday the Bank of England raised around £3 billion by getting up early and cashing in on the market 's victory leap . |
| 18 | Reading between the lines it becomes clear that it is the address which was recorded , in a studio re-creation to cash in on the President 's assassination . |
| 19 | Now the crack Flexible Anti-Smuggling Teams are closing in on the dealers ' ’ rat-runs ’ . |
| 20 | Even Egyptians , whose soldiers may well be sent in on the allies ' side , hate the spectacle of a fellow Muslim , a defier of Zionists , being shot up by America 's whizz-bang weaponry . |
| 21 | The Mochlos ring shows a sacred tree growing out of the shrine being ferried along on the priestess 's ship . |
| 22 | The handles were generally fixed first , also by plain rivets burred over on the shield 's front , at right angles to the grain of the wood ( Leeds and Shortt 1953 , p. 56 ; Jarvis et al . |
| 23 | Some theatre staff take over on the patient 's arrival in the theatre suite and keep the patient until he is fully recovered and conscious , while in other theatres the ward nurse remains with her patient until he is fully anaesthetized fin some cases the ward nurse assists the anaesthetist ] and returns to collect the patient who is not fully conscious and still under the effect of the anaesthetic . |
| 24 | The crowd really get off on the Kitchens ' distinctly '80s sound , whooping like only Americans can , and calling out for all the correct songs — and then it dawns on you . |
| 25 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 26 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |
| 27 | The trend was illustrated by the new cemeteries , which were springing up on the cities ' fringes . |
| 28 | McKeown has not given up on the north 's hope for next year 's Classic , who was found to have a temperature after finishing last in the Somerville Tattersall Stakes . |
| 29 | I told them , as I tell alumni wherever I meet them , that the best thing you can do for the University is to remember its strengths , and in your normal professional and daily lives to be prepared to speak up on the University 's behalf when you think it is appropriate . |
| 30 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |