Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walking through Ricky 's woods , Daisy noticed ruby-red sticky buds thrusting out on the chestnuts , although many of the trees still clung on to their shrivelled brown leaves . |
| 2 | All round there are No Smoking signs strung up on the fences . |
| 3 | There had been some hefty wooden icons hanging up on the walls , and , if they had burnt , then there would have been something left of them lying around on the floor . |
| 4 | Outside the window are a few sticks lying around on the grass . |
| 5 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 6 | with some goodies laid out on the table , |
| 7 | I 've heard similar things about ‘ Talk To Your Daughter ’ , where the original demos of some tracks ended up on the final recording . |
| 8 | Ms Johnston uses the world war as a springboard into other conflicts ; that between England and Ireland ; between Ireland north and south , and even within the south itself , as the English officers look down on the Irish men , and the northern Irish sergeant barely conceals his contempt for the southern Catholics in his ranks . |
| 9 | Some changes came about on the death of Henry VIII , when the General Surveyors were absorbed into Augmentations , but it was apparent that more drastic reforms were needed . |
| 10 | At one point , when some pages Spilled out on the floor , he remarked , as if it were an integral part of his commentary , that ‘ some people ’ did not realize the importance of properly securing a typescript . |
| 11 | There a few items lying around on the battlements for the adventurers to find : old arrows and rusty arrowheads , a bucketful of congealed pitch , a bunch of rotten torches tied up with twine , a rotted length of rope and the like . |
| 12 | As the ‘ laar ’ ( breath ) of wind is from the south east , I head slowly up the western shore , knowing that , with the ebbing tide , there will be a few seals hauled out on the rocks . |
| 13 | LET'S GO surfing now — John Milius ’ most successful movie sets out on the ocean wave of West Coast surfing culture following the metamorphosis of three macho beach bums during the '60s decade of lost innocence , alcoholism , the draft and the mythic rites played out on the ocean wave . |
| 14 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 15 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 16 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 17 | Moulvi ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered by the Muslims ' breaking open the doors of the mosque , which had been kept locked for the last few months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 18 | Initially these are no more than tiny wisps streaked out on the surface of the lava , like flecks of foam on a river , which are soon engulfed once more in the main mass . |
| 19 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 20 | But we suspect it was found necessary to place the Monkeys ' Dance where the score has it in order to allow time for setting this exotic scene — and six dancers cavorting about on the forestage could make a useful amount of noise to mask what was happening on the darkened scenic stage behind the proscenium arch . |
| 21 | In some of the wrecks other young women were sitting : Miranda only saw then one naked girl in dark glasses leaning back on the banquette-style front seat of a big old Rover , thin white legs in heels just touching the cinder-strewn wasteground . |
| 22 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 23 | Especially if more of his carefully-planned meals end up on the wall than in his mouth . |
| 24 | Scientists report that 150 dead or dying dolphins washed up on the shores of Italy and Sicily since June were infected by the same morbillivirus which accounted for those killed in 1990 [ see ED no . |
| 25 | Later European governments got in on the act and set about invading and colonizing large chunks of the globe . |
| 26 | Perhaps only three or four keys on the typewriter keyboard that the computer will have need to be pressed at all , and if a child presses the wrong one it does n't all stop and funny , you know , impersonal messages come up on the screen saying he 's done something wrong , it just ignores them and waits for one of the correct responses . |
| 27 | They inevitably knock on the door on the one evening of the month when you 're dolled up in your glad rags to go out on the town . |
| 28 | There were nights when stone hot-water bottles left out on the floor froze solid . |
| 29 | I watched the red tip of her cigarette glow ; white headlights streamed by on the other side of the motorway , as we headed north in the darkness . |
| 30 | I have little in them , nothing that matters , but those few crumpled contents laid out on the table are my possessions . |