Example sentences of "[adv] on [pron] [noun] and [pron] " in BNC.

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1 The nature of the code ( that is , for example , that GGC codes for glycine ) depends entirely on which anticodon and which attachment site occur together on a tRNA molecule .
2 His eyes had avoided Belinda 's face this morning , as if last night was still very much on his mind and he was embarrassed about everything that had happened , and everything that had been said .
3 They love bumping their young offspring up and down on their knees and they love showing off their ‘ achievement ’ to their friends .
4 Sit down on your bottom and I 'll catch you at the bottom , right you ready ?
5 Your partner presses down on your knees and you try to relax your muscles
6 They took another twenty people to hospital and I had the dairy roof down on my back and it took them two hours to dig me out .
7 The sun was beating down on our backs and our throats were becoming as dry as a proverbial nuns .
8 He put his face down on his arms and his voice was muffled .
9 Then abruptly I was looking at him , seeing him , because he 'd put my dreams back on top of the bag and he 'd got his head stuck down on his knees and his shoulders were shaking .
10 Whereas here , you 're still very busy , but er you have the membership just on your doorstep and you can get to meet them and know them a lot closer than you would when you 're having er a large volume of people filing through your doors in the city centre .
11 But that 's what I want tomorrow morning we 'll be looking at your preparation tonight on your call and I want I want you to tell me at the end of each why you chose the route you chose right ?
12 As the name suggests , the board literally flips over on its side and you usually tumble off when sailing fast on a reach .
13 The thing is , if they always give you and you , your , nine times out of ten what they do is like , is either , they either put a can over there or a beer or something , they put it over the end of the , the weapon pull the trigger and that , even with a flash that can go like that , and then they show you one with the , the erm flashes right which have more powerful than the and they 've actually got same again same charge as a life grenade in , but it just plain cardboard so , obviously no trap , but if you lay on them ooh er , you get or something you do n't throw what they do now is they put one they light one , put the helmet over the top of it and make it lit , it runs like buggery and it 'll go a hundred , a hundred and fifty foot up in the air and inside it looks like its been and where its been in the thing it 'll be like er , six seventy foot off the ground , I mean I laid on one once and I , landed about two foot too my left so I 've rolled over , rolled , rolled , and rolled , as I 've rolled I 've rolled over on my back and I 've had all loads of over , like the , I had a roll there its like the er
14 ‘ I would roll over on my ankle and it would pop out for a few seconds and click back in again ’ .
15 The bookstore window features fanned stacks of the most recent scrotum-tightener from the feminist front : it was called Not On Our Lives and it was by Karen Krankwinkl .
16 I did n't have a recording of it with me , Mrs Thatcher was already on her feet and there was no way I could interrupt to reverse the decision .
17 The boot blacking came off on my hands and I wiped it off on the side of the bed .
18 ‘ He struck me repeatedly on my head and my arms .
19 Obviously the candidate will complete this section , but if he were to reflect honestly on his work and what he was allowed to do then his response would not advance his cause .
20 I said I 'd ring her up on her birthday and I did n't
21 They 've got erm an adult literacy course if you want to brush up on your reading and your writing they 've got computer courses they 've got a course in sound engineering and a works skills for women course which is what Sarah did .
22 He could feel the bruise coming up on his cheek and his whole face was stiff and jarred .
23 ‘ Somebody 's been a-doing the saddle up on my horses and I can not get these horses away .
24 The small creature 's head lolled slightly on its shoulders and its arms flopped by its side .
25 God was clearly on her side and she made it to the living-room door without a hitch .
26 Firemen from Billingham attended Redpath Offshore , Port Clarence , after a compressor caught fire yesterday morning but the fire was out on their arrival and there were no injuries .
27 Well , you see , the trouble is Marg I go out on my bike and I think , ooh it 's cold I 'll and then I forget going in the
28 ‘ It wo n't be long before I set out on my expedition and I do n't think he 'll be fit to run away from me . ’
29 ‘ Going almost solely on your files and his MO , I 'd have to say it was Peter Lawton , ’ the Records Officer told him .
30 So had she once walked and talked herself in that same garden — or so it now seemed to her — with the young Irishman who had recovered the amethyst and diamond cat which she still wore , very often on her collar and which she had longed — very badly , she remembered — to give him as a keepsake .
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