Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She snapped her glass down on to a small side-table and stood up decisively . |
2 | This is quite easy to do on an animation stand , with the camera pointing down on to a flat board which supports the artwork . |
3 | He was ‘ jumped ’ by a Focke Wulf FW190 flown by the German ace , Robert Spreckels , and forced down on to a Danish beach . |
4 | We stood at the railed-off observation platform at Bartlet Nab and looked down on to a spectacular scene . |
5 | In desperation Odd-Knut suggests we go down on to a frozen lake , Devdisvatn , the Lake of the Dead Man . |
6 | ‘ Although I must say , Julie , ’ she added , throwing her briefcase down on to a nearby chair , ‘ I do think that you might have given me the ‘ Gypsy 's Warning ’ before I left for work today ! ’ |
7 | He sank down on to a convenient chair and shook his head dolefully . |
8 | In central London , a middle-aged woman had a lucky escape when a 40ft tree crashed down on to an open-top bus on Victoria Embankment . |
9 | He drove along the road for two or three miles , then turned off on to a stone-walled lane which led up a forested hillside . |
10 | It only slowed down on nearing the outskirts of Teplyystan where it turned off on to a narrow road leading into the Bittsevsky forest park , a panoramic landscape of ravines and gorges layered with fir , oak and pine plantations . |
11 | I watched for the gas station on Harvey 's map and turned off on to an unmade road that kicked up stones against the underside of the Rambler and laid a film of dust across the tinted windscreen . |
12 | Landowners started to complain that the bikes were chewing up their paths , raising the whole ugly debate about access up on to a new plane , and ridge-walks lost some of their grandeur by displaying fat tyre tracks on their grassy sections . |
13 | Frejji 's voice , making me jump , jolted my headache up on to a new level . |
14 | Steven cursed inwardly and had to step up on to a low wall above the height of the laser-axles to empty and fill his lungs again . |
15 | Someone lifted me up on to a high chair , so that I was close to his nose . |
16 | Climbing up on to a high bastion , I looked down over the shimmering interior of the fort and thought of the words that must once have been a set text for the cavalrymen stationed here : |
17 | After the theatrics of the ridge , it 's a strange experience to emerge up on to an enormous flat plateau — a bit like climbing the ladder up to your loft and discovering it leads to an American Football stadium . |
18 | A nearby car blared its horn loudly and , to Jessamy 's intense relief , Julius seemed to get control over himself again very rapidly , steering them back on to a straight course . |
19 | Pitman yanked him back on to a true line and managed to steer him clear of the rails , but the two hundred yards he had left to run seemed like two hundred miles , and Red Rum was now only five lengths back . |
20 | ‘ Are n't we going to have something to eat ? ’ she asked as she caught up with him , trying to steer the conversation back on to a safe subject . |
21 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
22 | this has got costs back on to a sensible basis , and he is convinced that this assures the Company of its place at the forefront of the european industry . |
23 | It was a time of speculative fever burning over western Europe , and debt holders not only rushed to exchange , many of them quickly put the stock back on to a soaring market where others rushed to take it up . |
24 | A man who could and would talk the hind legs back on to an injured donkey , provided it had decent proletarian credentials . |
25 | He found it and packed it among orange and strawberry lollies so it could be taken to Middlesbrough General Hospital to be sewed back on in a four-hour operation . |
26 | The hand was sewn back on in an 11½-hour operation at Mount Vernon Hospital in Northwood , north London . |
27 | She stepped out on to a narrow cement path . |
28 | Wu Shih turned , leading them along the lang , the covered walkway , then up a twist of wooden steps and out on to a broad gallery above a concealed lake . |
29 | Through the large plate glass windows ( a pleasant feature of all Wildfowl Trust Centres ) we looked out on to a deep lagoon , dug especially to attract wild birds . |
30 | At the top of the atrium , the pitched-roof-profile roof-light was made larger than was strictly necessary in order to provide a conservatory complete with tropical plants ( Plate 48 ) which leads out on to a landscaped roof garden capping the western half of the building . |