Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [v-ing] [adv] 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 | By instinct rather than design he found himself at Saint Winifred 's altar , and kneeled to approach her , his creaky knees settling gingerly on the lowest step of her elevated place . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He shuffled out of the courtyard , his over-sized shoes flapping noisily on the stone floor . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their grasp of LEA and national policies bearing directly on the task of headship was at best tenuous . |
| 11 | According to Hanan ( 1969 ) , a venture team is characterized by being relatively small , by being composed of members from various functional areas working full-time on the project , by being willing to take risks , by having a broad objective that is not well defined at the start , by having sufficient resources , by being segregated from the permanent organization , and by having great freedom with a minimum of corporate rules and regulations . |
| 12 | What made things particularly difficult was that I felt I was n't Black enough for my Black colleagues and that white workers picking up on the division used this to their advantage by divide-and-rule tactics . |
| 13 | Peter Berger argues that society has often been viewed as a puppet theatre with its members portrayed as ‘ little puppets jumping about on the ends of their invisible strings , cheerfully acting out the parts that have been assigned to them ’ . |
| 14 | The behind-the scenes image created is of Hislop swapping Fergie news in the Groucho Club , while Merton is round the corner in The Three Ferrets reflecting bluntly on the real tit-bits . |
| 15 | And then three dice , electronic dice are thrown , and you get three numbers showing up on the screen . |
| 16 | There was still the warehouse on his left , and a derelict site beyond that , with occupied flats coming up on the right … |
| 17 | times He 'll have good times Goin' oot on the randan But |
| 18 | 1992 was a strong contender for best year yet , with eminent experts talking knowledgeably on the myriad of inter-modal transport topics of interest to members . |
| 19 | Ruining your good trousers wriggling about on the ground . |
| 20 | They first recorded the vervets ' call and then played them through loud-speakers to free-living monkeys moving about on the ground . |
| 21 | Virgin snow lay heaped on royal-blue tarpaulins which covered glistening black gondolas riding gently on the dark , silky water . |
| 22 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 23 | Alyssia looked at the unsmiling profile , the strong hands resting lightly on the steering-wheel , and wished that she had never allowed herself to confide in him . |
| 24 | The series is geared towards the needs of amateur painters starting out on the road to success . |
| 25 | The form is a basin supported on three stout legs and with two big ring-handles standing upright on the rim , these often supported by human figures and crowned by a horse . |
| 26 | The car wove through the traffic on Hyde Park Corner and purred up Park Lane , the grime-grey hotels flashing by on the right . |
| 27 | Torrance suffered the jibes and in those early days of his experimentation there were often queues of fellow pros lining up on the practice putting greens of Europe to have a go themselves . |
| 28 | She watched him sprawl in a cane chair on the terrace , light a cigar , and pick up a book , uncaring of the many and varied insects homing in on the light above him . |
| 29 | Eventually they acquired the status of gods and goddesses whose periodic tantrums brought epidemics , famines and other disasters raining down on the heads of long-suffering humanity . |
| 30 | Wynne-Thomas pointed towards two men standing together on the next pitch . |