Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The friar sat down on the sanctuary steps and stared into his fat , cheery face . |
| 2 | Two years ago he brought in a Commons Bill ( which , sadly , failed ) to try to clamp down on the boy racers . |
| 3 | Which I wrote down on the diary records side . |
| 4 | And er then they started blacklegs and when they started the rest of the firms all came as well then and I remember er going down on the picket lines and er they 'd be all the members there . |
| 5 | He did not put up any resistance when they flung him down on the rainswept slabs , and tied his ankles with a thick cord . |
| 6 | Several trees were burned down on the Splash premises . |
| 7 | Several trees were burned down on the Splash premises . |
| 8 | Down on the ground matters are very different . |
| 9 | Mr Abello was the fourth-ranking person in the Medellin cartel and the most important suspect arrested since Colombia began cracking down on the cocaine barons nearly two months ago , the department said . |
| 10 | ‘ I do hope it 's nothing serious , ’ said Julia politely , thinking that it was rather hard on his wife to spend her honeymoon feeling ill while her husband sat in on a war crimes trial . |
| 11 | But the lesson of the Kennedy case is that if you have the chance to take another job before your redundancy has been confirmed , you may have to choose between safeguarding your future and cashing in on the job rights built up over the years in your present employment . |
| 12 | Stewarts and Crazy Prices supermarkets are cashing in on the schooltime purchases with a bigger than ever range of bags and stationery . |
| 13 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 14 | Co-ordinated Land and Estates , which bought the Milngavie course from Stakis for an undisclosed sum last year , believe Dougalston , only minutes from Glasgow city centre and within easy reach of Glasgow Airport , is ideally placed to cash in on the golfing tourists . |
| 15 | You had to be in on the script meetings and the rehearsals to realize that underneath that company executive exterior lurked a funny man who took it all very seriously indeed . |
| 16 | When you look down , when you are seeing it in on the television pictures , you look down from an aerial view . |
| 17 | Members of the committee will see that savings continue to come through on the school meals service and this is to a very considerable extent , the result that the ethos of the previous Conversative administration which ran a tight ship and positively encourage deficiency . |
| 18 | She had n't planned for a witness , but it seemed that she had one ; the woman was over on the iron steps , watching her across the restaurant deck . |
| 19 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 20 | Tramways and overhead cableways were built to tip the waste rock high up on the moorland hillsides since the valley floors had little spare space . |
| 21 | It was noted in the Faroes ( where the oystercatcher is the national bird ) , in Scotland , where the birds began to penetrate inland up the river valleys , and in Shetland , where they forsook the shingle beaches and moved to fields and even up on the heather hills . |
| 22 | Away to the south-west , on the far bank of the river , standing up on the desert bluffs , we could see the Pyramids of Giza , shimmering through the haze above the city . |
| 23 | The first great white flakes had melted on the pavements , now it was falling thicker and faster , building up on the window ledges and in the cricks and crannies , turning to slush on the roads as the traffic churned through it . |
| 24 | The little man stood up on the foot rests , throttling back . |
| 25 | In those days all the cutters were laid up on the trot piles in the river Hamble during the winter months . |
| 26 | Just a couple of weeks later , Betty popped up on the BRIT awards . |
| 27 | We could go up on the railway sidings . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , the guy who tied , who , who , who tied the women up on the railway lines , dastardly , wicked . |
| 29 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 30 | I have also , since her departure , caught up on the job applications correspondence , which in itself takes time . |