Example sentences of "on at the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One desk lamp was switched on at the far end of the room , one candle , round , red , squat , burned on her bedside table . |
| 2 | And putting coals on at the far end . |
| 3 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 4 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 5 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 6 | pending discussions but the whole thing Mr chairman really has n't erm has n't been decided to you know er a few colleagues point er I mean there 's nothing we can actually start and you can put pencil to paper on at the present time . |
| 7 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 8 | I was able to meet some of the leading Indian academic figures in English and Linguistics , and at the same time to find out what was going on at the lower levels of teaching in Universities and affiliated Colleges . |
| 9 | There 's a lot of shelling and mortaring going on at the other end of the village . ’ |
| 10 | Making her way to the bookcase , she was weighing up the possibility of reading the title spines without putting on the light when a table-lamp was clicked on at the other end of the room . |
| 11 | That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum . |
| 12 | From London you can be putting your boots on at the Bloody Bridge car park in less than three hours if you have a mind to . |
| 13 | That 's the Stamford Bridge in East Yorkshire not the one which gives David Mellor a stork on at the mere mention of the place . |
| 14 | Middleton finds Rocky on at the Mongolian flicks ; Vickers listens to Elvis and Buddy Holly on a Kazakh collective farm . |
| 15 | Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop . |
| 16 | Mark listened aghast at the naive and dangerous idealism of the young , starry-eyed politician , who was light years away from knowing what really went on at the sharp end of European and international trade . |
| 17 | No , you can not prevent it from happening — but scientists are a bit nearer to understanding what goes on at the molecular level . |
| 18 | You put that on at the right time |
| 19 | I had been the last to get on at the previous station , so I was standing with my back wedged against the window . |
| 20 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
| 21 | The trend in a number of large corporate structures to remove layers of management to allow better communication and a clearer view of what is actually going on at the productive base is recognition that clear , unambiguous communication is a further mainspring in developing an organisation . |
| 22 | But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute . |
| 23 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 24 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
| 25 | I put Growmore fertiliser on at the same time as the compost and it seems to have no ill-effects . |
| 26 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
| 27 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 28 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
| 29 | I mute them so that I can switch two wirelesses on at the same time , because if you have two on together they screech . |
| 30 | If that 's on at the same time as soccer , we 'll have two sets going . |