Example sentences of "a [noun] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the famous gun that could put a shell on to a target and then another two on the same spot precisely . |
| 2 | Maybe fate had to give you a shove on to the right path . ’ |
| 3 | And I take it erm the commission structure is just the same if I am continuing a contract on for the following year . |
| 4 | Nina turned the fragments of food on her plate with all the delicacy of an archaeologist lifting a shard on to a trowel . |
| 5 | The bird ties it by holding a strip on to a branch with one foot and then , using its beak , passing the end round the branch , threading it through one of the turns and pulling it tight . |
| 6 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist ; sometimes whopping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . |
| 7 | But Norman 's wholly unflustered , plots his way from hold to hold , from rest to rest , occasionally commenting on the way the knee-pads disconcertingly twist , sometimes whooping with delight as he gets a foot on to a substantial hold . ’ |
| 8 | Delaney swung a foot on to the ladder . |
| 9 | Since I am perfectly fit myself I had to consider Miller 's tribulation with some care , for I am here putting a foot on to an unknown terrain — always an exhilarating experience for a writer . |
| 10 | With a bit of practice , you can learn to put a condom on without the punter knowing you 've done it ! |
| 11 | Well because when you shine a light on to a board only half of it is gon na be facing only half of it is gon na be facing . |
| 12 | So put it i , put a light on in a room that you will actually be in . |
| 13 | The baker and the newsagent were open and there was a light on in the Carabinieri station that stood between them . |
| 14 | He was driving past , saw a light on in the shop and demanded to know what was going on . ’ |
| 15 | There was a light on in the house on stilts ; he could see a faint glow through the curtains of the window on the left of the door . |
| 16 | There was a light on in the hall , and apparently on the second floor , though that might be a landing . |
| 17 | In one house , on the corner , there was a light on in the front bedroom . |
| 18 | He paid , and still looking thoughtful , escorted the young girls through the mahogany and brass revolving doors into the burgundy-coloured , upholstered , mirrored and gilded interior of Le Grand Condé , where in heaps of rosy cumulus , nymphs with come-hither looks and not a stitch on except a few blue satin ribbons frolicked between the mirrored panels on the walls and ceiling . |
| 19 | Outside , another fierce white explosion of water burst over the side , carried by the screaming banshee of a wind on to the armoured glass plate of the bridge . |
| 20 | Oh , you can buy a cheap ones with a just a tape on without the |
| 21 | He scattered these from a window on to a sandy area just in front of the inn door . |
| 22 | He could smell her ; a cold sharp distant sort of musk , like a window on to a forest of winter pine . |
| 23 | Reaching to steady the ashtray , I spilt the coffee , and also hooked my elbow in the telephone 's lone dreadlock — so that when , with a final heroic convulsion , I burst out of the bed , the swinging casket somehow smashed into my shin and then dropped like a bomb on to the bare mound of my foot Twenty minutes later , by which time the pain had done its worst , I unpeeled my way through the sodden address book . |
| 24 | personally an and from er and the rest and he , he 's gone to this area and he 's looked and he , he 's seen and he may have interpreted this , or wanted to interpret it so that when his report went back that the , he was saying that we must get a move on to the people in the Party saying that we need to get involved now , we need to be in all these areas , we need to be helping things develop and , and being a part at the front . |
| 25 | I HAVE been hearing of a move on at the moment which , if it spreads , could see us all getting our pay in pints . |
| 26 | It has been nigh on a full month since we first made a landfall on to the north shore : since we rode in the longboat on the crest of the shining surf and I set my foot withal on this fair land in the name of the King . |
| 27 | There 's a crisis on at the studio . |
| 28 | As I told you , there 's a crisis on at the studio . |
| 29 | BIG Ron Atkinson took a microphone on to the Villa Park pitch to promise fans that he and chairman Doug Ellis would pull together next week to sign Dean Saunders from Liverpool . |
| 30 | In very light cross winds there is always the possibility of dropping a wing on to the ground and swinging badly . |