Example sentences of "[adv prt] on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Michele caught her and , carrying her back into the living-room , put her down on the long couch . |
| 2 | In Hebrews chapter 10 verse 4 we read ‘ it is not possible that the blood of bulls and of goats should take away sins ’ ( referring to the Old Testament sacrifices ) but in verse 12 we read ‘ But this man , after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for ever , sat down on the right hand of God . ’ |
| 3 | WHEN HE HAD BY HIMSELF PURGED OUR SINS , sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high . ’ |
| 4 | No up the top , third one down on the right hand side . |
| 5 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |
| 6 | Moving out of the path of the crowd , she put her luggage down on the uneven pavement and looked around . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't know you were home , ’ said Terry , as he sat down on the adjacent bed . |
| 8 | I sat down on the only patch of turf |
| 9 | Welsh Water has dragged many old-age pensioners and under-privileged people through the courts of Wales because they have fallen down on the odd instalment on their water charges . |
| 10 | Chancellor Kohl can intimidate mavericks in his Christian Democrat party by threatening to move their names down on the electoral list , exposing them to the risk of defeat at the polls . |
| 11 | Sergeant Morrison put his mug of tea down on the greasy bar and turned . |
| 12 | At eleven o'clock the following morning , Buzz sat down on the blue chair by Elinor 's bedroom window , pulled the kitchen timer from the pocket of her navy cotton dress , and set it to twenty minutes : the mechanism began to tick in an irritating way . |
| 13 | ‘ Why , Mummy , ’ the child was asking in the bath , tickling her little bottom moving up and down on the sandy deposit at the bottom of the bath until Tony had nowhere for his legs , ‘ when the sky is blue very very blue all over and you look at it is it white ? ’ |
| 14 | She lay down on the dirty bed . |
| 15 | If Joe had not caught her , she would be there now , walking up the dale to look down on the sleeping cottage . |
| 16 | The three grown people stand looking down on the sleeping infant whose soft breathing seems to have spread the tawny bloom over its ivory skin . |
| 17 | In the dying firelight he looked down on the sleeping face of Joe the Fish . |
| 18 | The sun blazed down on the ancient circle of stones , bees buzzed diligently as they searched for late pollen , and birds sang cheerfully in the nearby trees . |
| 19 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 20 | No wonder Uncle Mick grinned as he looked down on the nearly-elegant sitting-room . |
| 21 | She was hit and caught fire while going in to attack at low level and her pilot Don MacIntyre brought her down on the frozen surface of nearby Lake Hocklingen . |
| 22 | Kneeling down on the dusty pavement , she made as if to tie her shoelaces . |
| 23 | Jimmy had laid the girl down on the rough floor . |
| 24 | Slipping into the bed Sarah looked down on the white-blonde head and felt the familiar tightening in her guts . |
| 25 | Then hearing the padlock rattle , hurried to lie down on the makeshift bed again . |
| 26 | Jane Pargeter said , nodding towards her open drinks cabinet , even before Blanche and Dexter had time to sit down on the black leather armchairs in her sitting-room . |
| 27 | He sat down on the far side of the room and I caught only a brief view of him through the dancers , but it was undoubtedly Ralph Pike still at large . |
| 28 | She sat down on the battered settle and opened the letter . |
| 29 | This still leaves Britain way down on the pasta-eating league . |
| 30 | Robyn sat on the bed and tipped two tablets into the palm of her hand , resisting the need to lay her head down on the cool pillow . |