Example sentences of "on the [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Coffee was on the go there as well but I noticed that the Sheikha never drank a drop . |
| 2 | Keeping the rudder still and pulling right back on the stick sharply as the stall occurs , should make the wing drop . |
| 3 | He had dumped me on the surface just as he had found me . |
| 4 | The whole effect is so convincing that flies not only visit flower after flower , transporting the stapelia 's pollen , but even complete the activity for which they visit real carrion — laying their eggs on the flower just as they do in a carcass . |
| 5 | But Derek and I both made mistakes at first ; simple things really , such as accidentally standing on the creance just as the bird came across , so that the poor thing got dumped . |
| 6 | On my first acquaintance with the mad little road , in about 1950 , I had no feelings of affection for it nor any eye for the beauty all around , my gaze being fixed on the tarmac ahead as I dragged weary legs along it . |
| 7 | Consideration by Ministers of the member states at the Research Council is likely to follow at the end of December and it is hoped that this will produce a ‘ common position ’ , that is agreement on the proposal possibly as amended in the light of the comments of the Parliament and of the advisory bodies to the Council . |
| 8 | Snow lay on the park outside as Miranda showed her new house in Cumberland Terrace to fashion editor Annie Trehearne . |
| 9 | Boyden and Handy arrived on the scene just as this was beginning to happen . |
| 10 | She decided to sleep on the sofa so as not to miss anything . |
| 11 | It 's up on the poster here as well . |
| 12 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 13 | As you improve , instead of riding in a straight line along a wave you start manoeuvring by footsteering on the wave just as surfers do . |
| 14 | Is he aware that anyone placed in that predicament today , and who decided to go on the dole so as to look after his sick parents , would not receive a single penny piece ? |
| 15 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
| 16 | Cameron Nielson Jr stepped out on the stage just as the initial applause was dying , and climbed the dais with leisurely ease , settling down behind the theremin stand . |
| 17 | Questions that are too open — " Well , what do we do now ? " — make considerable demands on the group socially as well as dramatically . |
| 18 | Melanie kept her eyes on the witch-ball so as not to have to look at Uncle Philip . |
| 19 | I had eaten an orange and thrown the peel on the fire just as I lit it , and the smell of orange zest and smoke embittered the air while the peel lay , mock flame , amid the cold coals . |
| 20 | I 'll lie down on the couch again as soon as I 've seen Mrs Porter . ’ |
| 21 | His picture adorns the lockers on the shop-floor just as it beckons from the shop-fronts of Prague . |
| 22 | This is the stream that falls into Gaping Gill on the moor above as Fell Beck and , after a tortuous journey through the bowels of the earth , returns to daylight here with the name of Clapham Beck . |
| 23 | As it flopped its way forward , the vulnerable underside came down on the ring just as the mini-grenade in the stone erupted into satisfying flame . |
| 24 | Yet Thomas , 17 , who made a scoring debut as a substitute last week , could have to settle for a place on the bench again as Hearts look to John Robert- son and Ian Ferguson to shoulder the responsibility in attack . |
| 25 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |