Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A tiny spider floated down on a thread from a purple-headed thistle and scuttled over her hand . |
| 2 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 3 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 6 | The second cell ( 82c ) contains a moaning , naked Orc chained down on a bed of nails which rip the boil-infested flesh on his back . |
| 7 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 8 | Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath . |
| 9 | He put his coffee cup down on a pile of English magazines , got up and stretched himself . |
| 10 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 11 | Burun sat down on a pile of cushions on the floor , and settled himself to wait . |
| 12 | In this small picture , you look down on a couple of hundred thousand people and their bodies are as invisible as microbes . |
| 13 | Write it down on a bit of paper , that 's a good chap ! ’ |
| 14 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 15 | Tell you what I 'll write it down on a bit of paper what page it 's on |
| 16 | Film advertising ideas are usually presented to clients in the form of a storyboard — eight or more drawn pictures pasted down on a board with the written commentary set out beneath . |
| 17 | It 's merely recording the words we use are taken down on a scrap of paper context I do n't but used . |
| 18 | I like to think there are n't many tricks I miss , but I have to credit Sorrel in that she did write it down on a scrap of newspaper without saying ‘ in case of what ? ’ |
| 19 | In 1944 our Lancaster of 57 Sqn , piloted by Flt Lt Bulcraig was shot down on a raid on Revigny , Northern France , killing the pilot , Bomb Aimer Fg Off Robson , Flt Eng Sgt Gale and W/Op Sgt Loughlin . |
| 20 | That has been done to death by ex-managers and ex-record companies who use a list of about two dozen tracks which they write down on a sheet of paper , cut them up and put them in a hat , and whatever order they come out in that 's another album . |
| 21 | If you were to write down on a sheet of paper half a dozen simple statements of fact which were either true or false and then turn the questions face down , the pendulum will come up with which are which . ’ |
| 22 | Write the letters of CHRISTMAS down on a sheet of paper , then try to think of as many things as possible to do with the Christmas season which begin with each of the letters . |
| 23 | We 're all talking as if migration can be manipulated and a share between housing for migrants and housing for local need can be er arranged by us planners according to the numbers we write down on a sheet of paper . |
| 24 | Place the cake tin base down on a sheet of paper ( double thickness if necessary ) , and draw round it with a pencil . |
| 25 | She welcomed them politely , sat Muriella down on a stone by the fire , gave her warmed water to clean off the blood . |
| 26 | Put your collage piece face down on a wad of white kitchen paper and paste the back . |
| 27 | Above 1,200m you can often enjoy beautiful weather and look down on a sea of white clouds , with the occasional peak protruding through . |
| 28 | Alternatively , and no less awe-inspiring , if the cloud conditions are right , you ascend through the mist until you break out into the sun somewhere before the summit from where you look down on a sea of white cloud with many peaks bursting through . |
| 29 | He went and laid the limp creature down on a tuft of grass near the fold to let its mother lick it . |
| 30 | A LONE woman driver says she waited six hours to be rescued by the RAC when her car broke down on a motorway at night . |