Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as though one has a newspaper delivered only for the football results on Saturdays and assumes that nothing at all happened on the other days of the week . |
| 2 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 3 | Drawn in the deeper water upstream of the suspension bridge on the Groves section and facing the boathouse , Winston used a small swimfeeder rig looking for fall-back bites on double maggot from the dace and roach . |
| 4 | When she finally drew in behind the charcoal BMW on the road to Drogheda , she brandished the plastic bag and gestured — lead me on ! |
| 5 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 6 | A simple to load paper tray is also situated at the front for easy access and the printed copy emerges face down from the paper path on the top of the machine . |
| 7 | ‘ It was with her diary , down in the AVR lab on Moloch , ’ Miles said , a slight catch in his voice . |
| 8 | It 'll be after 2am before she bunks down in The Hitman coach on the way back to London . |
| 9 | Christina , Stephen and Celia huddled together in the master bedroom on the first floor , listening to the whirlwind hell-bent on destruction . |
| 10 | In various birds species , such as ruffs and black grouse , the males all cluster together in the breeding season on a special patch of ground called a lek or arena . |
| 11 | Protected by the castle , a settlement grew up , apparently outside the bailey walls on the lower ground , with the modern market area seemingly remaining clear until the 16th century . |
| 12 | She felt inside to the glass plate on the right and swept three switches upwards , blacking out one more cuddy of the past . |
| 13 | The legal aid scheme is kept under constant review by the Legal Aid Board , which is required to report annually to the Lord Chancellor on the discharge of its functions . |
| 14 | We had two perfect days skiing , early morning climbs being rewarded by long sweeping runs back down to the valley bottom on sun-softened neve . |
| 15 | Lastly , he had attended personally to the reprisal attack on Grant 's girlfriend and the recapture of the Wyatt girl . |
| 16 | Every year , travellers from all over the country decend on this small Cotswold town to buy and sell horses and catch up with old friends . |
| 17 | Every year , travellers from all over the country decend on this small Cotswold town to buy and sell horses and catch up with old friends . |
| 18 | If you wish to join in London , please make sure you indicate so on the booking form on page 16 . |
| 19 | I thought for two days that the machine had swallowed it and it was only on the monday morning on the way to the bank that I found that it had miraculousloy reappeared in my wallet again . |
| 20 | The log transformation was found to fit nicely at the zero position on the ladder of powers . |
| 21 | You can come back with us now or you can call in at the Incident Room on the Wharf later today if you prefer . ’ |
| 22 | She was cracking those damn peppermints in her back teeth to disguise the fact she 'd called in at the Oyster Bar on her way up . ’ |
| 23 | Should be a few goals going in at the Baseball Ground on Sunday … the central live match is Derby County against Oxford United … |
| 24 | When W. C. T. was two years old his mother gave birth to his brother John ; the pair of them were baptised together at the parish church on 21 January 1775 . |
| 25 | Application 02/91/0180 for a residential development on this land was made by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee , and turned down by the Planning Committee on 4th April 1991 . |
| 26 | Batty Wife Cave is in a different category , having no pretensions to shyness nor modesty ; indeed , it thrusts itself upon the notice of passersby on the road just below the Station Inn on the north side , where a channel of pebbles emerges from a low entrance half-choked by stones and normally dry . |
| 27 | the single motifs can be placed almost anywhere ; the centre-back of a jacket just above the hem , just above the cuffs on the sleeves , just below the shoulder seams on both sides of the jacket fronts or centre-back/centre-front of a skirt just above the hem . |
| 28 | The tavern was just near the Custom House on the corner of Thames Street , a grand , spacious affair with a green-leaved ale-stake pushed under the eaves from which hung a huge , gaudily painted sign . |
| 29 | At Falmouth one sunny day with Valiant , I received a frantic call from our catering officer who had gone ashore with the motor boat on a falling tide . |
| 30 | An insipid winter light dribbled in a thin gruel from a small pane of glass set low in the wall just above the camp bed on which he sprawled . |