Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [adv] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a young person , I am often quite afraid to go out on the streets in case I am approached by one of these grey-haired vandals and informed how much worse the world is these days or interrogated as to why young people do n't have any respect anymore . |
| 2 | But I was n't prepared to sit patiently on the sidelines while this process took place . |
| 3 | Free to smell again the sweat on the brow of the bourse ; free to bask in the slipstream of wide-bodied jets ; free to sit in on the counsels of the alleged good and the alleged great . |
| 4 | And as he closed the window of his room against the night frost , he was afraid to look out on the hills in case he heard angels sing and the other folk in the home would dismiss the story because of the two , long drawn out drinks he had before sleep closed down another Christmas Day . |
| 5 | ‘ We remain ready for talks at any time and I hope the Chinese side will be prepared to settle quickly on the arrangements for such talks , ’ Mr Hurd said . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's quite normal to tire quickly on the slopes . ’ |
| 7 | of women feel that it is unsafe to walk alone on the streets at night , which shows that a great public need is being ignored . |
| 8 | ‘ Cameron ’ Clare continues , ‘ is content to lurk here on the sidelines radiating self-righteous socialist disapproval and imag-ining how after the revolution we 'll all have to pull ploughs , eat raw turnips and take part in interminable self-criticism sessions long into the candle-lit night on the collective farm , are n't you , Cameron ? ’ |
| 9 | To him , even then , it had been history , and it somehow deserved ill-fortune ; in the heedless fashion of the American suburbs it seemed right to look down on the refugees from an old , superstition-riven world . |
| 10 | ‘ The questions on education are likely to reflect badly on the children even though everyone involved may be dong their utmost for them . ’ |
| 11 | If the normal and primary way of justifying the legitimacy of an authority is that it is more likely to act successfully on the reasons which apply to its subjects then it is hard to resist the dependence thesis . |
| 12 | You may now let it all hang out on the walls of the 303 Gallery from 6 June to 3 July where an open-forum show called ‘ Writing on the Walls ’ invites public participation . |
| 13 | Nigger told him he was due to start back on the tugs on the following Monday . |
| 14 | With the results showing Labour ten points up on the Tories , he is statistically right . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'll be able to go back on the streets , ’ she said . |
| 16 | As rapid economic and social change has worked its way through the countryside , however , the farm worker has found himself increasingly separated from the local village community both socially and — for those living out on the farms — geographically . |
| 17 | In the darkness , and still half-asleep , he was unable to focus immediately on the figures standing around his bed . |
| 18 | Northern Ireland people will now be able to check up on the levels of ozone , nitrogen dioxide and sulphur dioxide from data compiled in monitoring stations throughout the province . |
| 19 | Bear in mind that presentational matters are for the convenience of your reader , who will want to be able to check easily on the materials you have used . |
| 20 | and these people , you know , er had a deputation and all this business and I think some of that rubbed off on the children and , and you 've |
| 21 | The detailed cases described in chapters 7–9 concentrate heavily on the events that took place during that period . |
| 22 | Work again over same two stitches and put original two stitches back on the needles ; miss eight stitches ; repeat from * to end . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'm sure they will be only too intent to get back on the rails , ’ he observed . |
| 24 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 25 | Both draw heavily on the skills of an educated Chinese population . |
| 26 | They both pressed down on the pads . |
| 27 | On Sunday we rose early and after a good breakfast were eager to get out on the hills . |