Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peace People development co-ordinator Patrick Corrigan looks back on the mass rallies of 1976 . |
| 2 | The colourful draperies of the various stands and tents billowed and flapped gently , as the denizens of Little Tuckett strolled about on the freshly clipped lawns of the vicarage garden , taking in the various delights on offer . |
| 3 | The cloverleaf aperture shone down on the Bible Room like a brilliant blue sun , driving away the dark shadows , shrinking the inflated terrors of the night to their proper proportions . |
| 4 | Several colour strains have bee bred since the original black and silver variety came out on the market many moons ago . |
| 5 | Only two minutes left when Richard Walker popped up on the proverbial back stick , sounds painful does n't it , and it was for Portsmouth . |
| 6 | While she was deciding whether to support the Denver Broncos or the Pittsburgh Pederasts ( whatever ) , I sneaked into the bedroom and nearly had a heart attack to find a three-foot Paddington Bear propped up on the pillow . |
| 7 | More than 100,000 delirious members of the Clinton fan club turned out on the streets . |
| 8 | According to the Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , British industry risks losing out on the business opportunities opened up by the need for new equipment to assess and control environmental problems . |
| 9 | Or again late at night as I stood shivering at my bedroom window looking out on the frosted garden , unable to sleep and unable to understand why . |
| 10 | Persian forces crossed the river Araxes in mid-July 1826 and forced Russia 's frontier troops to fall back on the Georgian capital of Tiflis ( Tbilisi ) . |
| 11 | Angus Cameron stood up on the oak stump which Donald used as a chopping-block , held out his hand to each part of the crowd as though drawing them into the circuit of the ceremony , and said , at first quietly , then gaining volume as he felt the truth of his words : ‘ Alexander McLaggan , Mary Stewart — you love each other , and must wed each other , and that is right and good . |
| 12 | She stared at the car lights going by on the ceiling and thought about her Diary and wondered how much they would pay her for it . |
| 13 | brakes pads push out on the brake drum . |
| 14 | David McIvor came in on the blind-side and Ian Smith was called up when Graham Marshall injured his knee . |
| 15 | There was an old Heron dinghy drawn up on the beach , with an outboard motor ready attached . |
| 16 | And , although he was halted on the line , Cambridge retained possession , Flood sending Richard Batstone hurtling in on the left for a try that Davies converted . |
| 17 | And Super Kick off , the best game going out er , the best football game going out on the all computers ! |
| 18 | The other side lever remains back on the . |
| 19 | A far cry from the £2 tray meal handed out on the first of the Scenic Land Cruise trains eight years earlier , in a decade of special-train running where sophistication got its chance — and left behind many ordinary folk for whom the railway ‘ excursion ’ is now but a fading memory . |
| 20 | Chris Waddle moves from the right flank to the vacancy on the left caused by John Barnes 's withdrawal and David Rocastle takes over on the right . |
| 21 | They feel they are creative enough to win , even without the injured John Barnes , whose place on the left flank will go to Chris Waddle with David Rocastle coming in on the right and Steve McMahon and Bryan Robson taking the middle . |
| 22 | At this point , a side glen comes in on the right with a path leading to the dominating heights of Carn Eige and Mam Sodhail , or from it the bealach between Tom a' Choinich and Toll Creagach may be reached and a fine view seen over Glen Cannich to the mountains of Glen Farrar . |
| 23 | Water that has evaporated and condensed in the upper atmosphere , and then falls as rain , should be pure , except for a little carbon dioxide picked up on the way down ( although in fact , these days , it tends also to contain a whole catalogue of pollutants ) . |
| 24 | My Lord at the briefing that we attended er there was a sketch plan drawn up on the er the dry wipe board in the briefing room . |
| 25 | Allan Wells spoke out on the relay issue . |
| 26 | By the outbreak of war , with the Boy Scouts riding along on the crest of a wave , the figure stood at 150,000 . |
| 27 | There are a few non-Leeds supporters lurking around on the list I think . |
| 28 | A subsidised dog neutering scheme is being extended in South Tyneside to cut down on the number of stray dogs . |
| 29 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 30 | Now , in the light of a bedside lamp , he could see Marius Steen Lying back on the pillows asleep . |