Example sentences of "[verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wreck On The Highway and Fade Away were bleak and enduring vignettes , while Independence Day and the title song were nothing less than monumental . |
| 2 | Already the Fists were disembarking on the double . |
| 3 | Many of these are arranged through a voluntary organisation called Crossroads ( address on page 143 ) which takes its name from the television series because of the attention it focussed on the needs of disabled people . |
| 4 | The machine adds the capability to communicate on the Bi-Bop Telepoint network to the basic PowerBook , with the Bi-Bop modem supplied to Apple by the state phone company . |
| 5 | Until recently , only the dedicated enthusiasts would identify the components as a B.R. Standard Class 5MT , but since the completion of volunteer Dave Clark 's expert temporary lining and numbering on the exposed cab side , 73156 is now brought to the attention of all train-board visitors . |
| 6 | For a start Claridges Hotel , in London 's Mayfair , where the Russians would be staying , was fully bugged by MI5 on a permanent basis ( because so many ‘ interesting ’ foreign guests stayed there ) and it was certainly not going to miss the opportunity of eavesdropping on the two leaders . |
| 7 | Detectives launched the massive operation after eavesdropping on the conversation between a mystery woman and the playboy yachtsman accused of murdering his parents . |
| 8 | SNOOP Cyril Reenan was branded a prying sneak yesterday for eavesdropping on the intimate phone conversation . |
| 9 | Even then opposing fans mixed on the same terraces without the ‘ taking of ends ’ . |
| 10 | Perhaps a solution for the JTO 's that are finding difficulty in coping with the current situation would be for those of them that have both hard and grass courts at their club to run a two tier event , i.e. a Series tournament on the hard courts coupled with age group doubles and mixed on the grass . |
| 11 | The other type , which may be better for smaller jobs , is mixed on the spot in a special truck , which has a mixer at the back . |
| 12 | Usually the line represents the flow of something but that something might be material , energy , information or time but again these should not be mixed on the same diagram unless differently coded lines are used . |
| 13 | Another factor in Ethernet 's favour is that different types of cable can be mixed on the one Ethernet network , so you could lay cheap cable in most areas and higher-performance stuff in critical sections . |
| 14 | Other pharmaceuticals were mixed on the news , with Glaxo up 2p to 599p and Smith Kline Beecham 2p off at 414p . |
| 15 | Being a bit of a Pink Floyd and a club scene fan , I was joyous to hear a sample of the Floyd 's ‘ Shine On You Crazy Diamond ’ with a Soul II Soul beat on the radio . |
| 16 | She beat on the tree with her fists , she threw her arms as far round the tree as they would reach and then , despite the relentless rain , the saturated ground and the penetrating cold , she fell on her knees at its foot , unable to muster the will to walk on . |
| 17 | It was also very hot , for the drawing room faced due south and the hot sun beat on the glass . |
| 18 | The big man beat on the door and shouted in the high nasal tone of the Caucasus , slammed his fist into the woodwork , demanded attention . |
| 19 | The sun shone equally on them both : their shadows , enormous and jagged , covered the ground between the table and the eating-house , and waves of heat beat on the tonsures of the Alban priests . |
| 20 | These components are interpreted in social terms after the analysis by considering the social characteristics of the speakers who have been sorted on the basis of their linguistic behaviour into the two groups ( periphery and core ) which emerge in Figure 6.1 . |
| 21 | We had to pick the bind out by hand , er the coal was all er sorted on the screens and er er a u u us lads , we used to stand at the side of the belts that were travelling round and tipping the coal into the wagons down below you see ? |
| 22 | They sleep on the floor without mattress or bedcover . |
| 23 | People sleep on the floor or huddle round television sets . |
| 24 | Gina could crawl in beside them or sleep on the sofa downstairs if she preferred . |
| 25 | ‘ We got only two hours sleep on the mountain , ’ Grew said . |
| 26 | I sleep on the ground ; I have neither wife nor children , no miserable Governor 's mansion , but only earth and sky , and one rough cloak . |
| 27 | ‘ I sleep on the floor and have a bare house . ’ |
| 28 | Those having no money were forced to give up their clothes and sleep on the bare floor , often with fatal results . |
| 29 | ‘ She would often get out in the night and sleep on the floor , usually next to us . |
| 30 | However they do desecrate the holiest places with their flash-bulbs and hand-held video cameras ; they invade peaceful monasteries and sleep on the outskirts of towns in their evil-smelling ‘ campers ’ . |