Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv prt] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she had been strapped back on to the bed beside a tray of sinister-looking instruments in the medical centre , Benny had tensed her muscles as best she could , before the guards had fixed the buckles and left . |
| 2 | Animals in all stages of misery are turned out on to the streets , left in remote areas , even just left behind after the family holiday . |
| 3 | Wedges of oceanic crust are thrust up on to the overlying sediments of the subduction zone and uplift ensues ( Fig. 3.16 ) . |
| 4 | Many birds die and individuals are washed up on to the shore . |
| 5 | More and more of us are letting the conservatory fill up with pots , urns and tubs in winter , keeping the plants safe from the cold until May , when they can be rolled out on to the terrace , wheeled on to the patio or carried to the paved squares on the lawn where they will put on a show all summer long . |
| 6 | When records are being updated during the run , and so have to be written back on to the device after they have been read into main storage , this method involves no loss of time . |
| 7 | The dismissals were announced the day after Girija Prasad Koirala , the general secretary of the Nepali Congress Party , had delivered a message to the King warning him that unless substantial powers were quickly turned over to the new government , crowds would be called back on to the streets of Kathmandu . |
| 8 | The two men had smiled and laughed and let themselves be led out on to the lake . |
| 9 | That , given the potential for trouble when hundreds of disgruntled drinkers are thrown out on to the street at the same time , was surely the prudent tactic . |
| 10 | When these weapons are taken out on to the streets , it can lead to a change in the spiritual climate , of which more later . |
| 11 | The electrons are deflected down on to the specimen by a pair of adjustable magnets attached to a movable carriage on the top of the specimen chamber . |
| 12 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that we returned with an impression of economic chaos — and the impression that , although aid from this country and others is welcomed , it is feared that too much is being siphoned off on to the black market ? |
| 13 | As it happened , the entire episode was resolved after The Smiths decided to repoen communications with the label and a somewhat confused Easterhouse were invited back on to the Scottish tour . |
| 14 | Three were dragged back on to the train and taken by the scruff of the neck from station to police car . |
| 15 | Three were dragged back on to the train and taken by the scruff of the neck from station to police car . |
| 16 | He had remembered having seen , that first day , some goats grazing further on down the river bank , had made some inquiries and discovered that they were taken down on to the river bed every morning by a boy who acted as herd . |
| 17 | In female flowers , the flies are wedged in tightly , the thorax pollen being rubbed off on to the stigma . |
| 18 | The notion that patients are being thrown out on to the street is not borne out , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The roof drainage should be able to take water away quickly and cleanly without obstruction , and therefore eaves tiles should discharge neatly into gutters without water being blown back on to the wall or woodwork . |
| 20 | In the Columbia River area of the western U.S.A. where most of the lavas were erupted about twenty million years ago , such vast amounts of basalt were poured out on to the surface that hills 1,500 metres high were drowned in lava ! |
| 21 | Before doing so I should say by way of parenthesis that I have totally bypassed the colleagues who are currently members of the Government , several of whom suggested privately that they would resign if the Maastricht bill or anything like it is brought back on to the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | I can understand why John was overexcited by New York , where , at night , life and all its colour and reflection is folded out on to the street , and not shut in and huddled , behind the glow of windows . |
| 23 | YOU FAT BASTAD ! ’ as a stage diver is thrown back on to the stage and Carl , who has removed his glasses in a rare moment of vanity , gets out of the way by blundering blindly into the snare drum . |
| 24 | As she was pressed back on to the couch her mind raced madly in protest , but all she managed to bring out in a kind of croak was , ‘ No , Daddy , no . ’ |
| 25 | The next morning — or soon , anyway — Spunk was beamed up on to the bridge of the low-lying spaceship by the mischievous , conical , beep-voiced aliens , who then travelled through time and beamed Spunk down again into Greenwich Village , 1980 . |
| 26 | Liam was helped up on to the driving seat by an even grumpier Den and the two women and the reins put into his hand . |
| 27 | The main road was blocked for twenty-five minutes whilst the three-quarter-ton monster was winched out on to the tracks , and cars soon began diverting themselves through the portals of the nearby Methodist Church . |
| 28 | Yussuf was pitched off on to the other side . |
| 29 | The body was thrown off on to the track and the investigators with the exception of Sherlock Holmes were deceived into believing it had fallen from a carriage . |
| 30 | After her coat was thrown down on to the couch , to be followed by the long mud-fringed skirt and tattered voluminous blouse , there appeared before the child a fat woman , a very fat woman , in what seemed to be a clean blue-striped blouse and a long grey skirt with a fringe . |