Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 're carrying out the checks initially on the the capabilities and the financial soundness of the , of the proposed supplier . |
| 2 | I then hung the skeins outside on the washing line to allow the fresh air to blow the yarn dry . |
| 3 | Robyn laid the plans out on the grass and knelt beside them . |
| 4 | Dreaming the hours away on the lovely sands , one can imagine anything about Sandwood Bay . |
| 5 | The rough land is altogether too harsh and unyielding , giving sustenance only to sheep , and to the conifers high on the flanks of East Kielder Moor and Grey Mares Knowe , immense sweeps of hillside to right and left of the valley . |
| 6 | She turned them inside out , returned them to Dot to put on with the insides now on the outside . |
| 7 | The bouncer — bullies , as they were called in Dublin — stepped away from Lee , and eased the hammers down on the shotgun . |
| 8 | It is highly likely that one corner , edge or the centre of the object you have just drawn will need to be lined up with a corner , edge or centre of one or more of the objects already on the screen . |
| 9 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 10 | She was wandering about the room , pulling the covers up on the bed and tidying up half-heartedly , waiting for the kettle on the gas-ring to boil . |
| 11 | She put the books down on the vanity table and with trembling fingers opened her handbag to find her face powder . |
| 12 | In all the restaurants down on the coast they offer you very much the same salad , sometimes with a few olives , cucumber slices and cos lettuce all prettily arranged on a flat dish , a mixture not unlike the salade niçoise of Southern France . |
| 13 | You feel that the music carries the words along on the back of its urge to secure release . |
| 14 | I 'm only sixteen and I 've got dishpan hands , he thought , and laughed as he stacked the plates neatly on the draining-board . |
| 15 | The kettle boiled and I made the drinks and followed him through to set the mugs down on the low table near the fireplace . |
| 16 | Mr Dyson was stocking up with sacks of flour and sugar and boxes of dried fruit , and the shelves high on the walls of the shop carried forty-eight pound jars of jam and mincemeat . |
| 17 | His eldest brother and his wife had been killed in an earthquake over the mountains there on the other side of the Peloponnesus . |
| 18 | Vologsky was alert immediately , the tensions now on the surface , his nerve-endings tingling with anticipation and fear . |
| 19 | now if you 're a football fan you 'll have been crossing the days out on the calendar for a couple of months now … the supporters scarf will have been washed and ironed and sitting ready for weeks … and by my calculation you 've only got one hundred and sixteen hours left to the big kick off … so here 's a taster |
| 20 | And apparently these other lads further down , to the tune of about a hundred and fifty yards , had all lifted the boards up on the belt and so all their slack and that was coming to me . |
| 21 | You can see him pull the veins off on the way , hey ? |
| 22 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 23 | When he was fifty yards down the path he remembered the trousers still on the creel . |
| 24 | Spreading the oilskins out on the floor , she wiped them off , finishing the process with the towel Nathan had tossed on to the worktop . |
| 25 | Like riding bareback on the ponies on the other side of Loch Maree and taking the boats out on the loch . |
| 26 | Pete began to set the pieces out on the board . |
| 27 | Pete finished putting the pieces out on the board and swivelled it around . |
| 28 | Even the ants out on the balcony drag a little sidecar of shadow . |
| 29 | Through my binoculars-camera the colours down on the track in the chilly sunshine looked sharp and bright , the race easy on that account to read . |
| 30 | She laid the jewels out on the bed in the small atelier she was renting . |