Example sentences of "and [adj] [noun] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mann has battled through everything to make a visually stunning piece of cinema that has launched a notoriously shy and guarded actor on to an international career as a leading man . |
| 2 | Swivelling round in his chair , he dropped a pile of X-rays and accompanying notes on to the desk beside him . |
| 3 | Titmuss 's famous book The Gift Relationship ( 1970 ) used the example of donating blood to raise the whole discussion about giving and social welfare on to a philosophical level . |
| 4 | Carefully paint eyes , a nose , a mouth and rosy cheeks on to the pixie 's face . |
| 5 | Despite a lingering tendency to see the Chinese cult of the dead as a simple and direct projection on to the mystical plane of the strict code of filial piety controlling the behaviour of sons towards their fathers , recent studies by Sinological anthropologists are increasingly adopting a wider cosmological perspective which places the dead , where they naturally belong , among the other spirits and forces of traditional Chinese religion . |
| 6 | Although the Germans had used a warning radar since before 1939 , the Bruneval station included a new Würzburg set with its 20-foot ( 6m ) dish aerial able to range guns and direct planes on to a single aircraft . |
| 7 | She ladled the flat and listless thing on to a piece of toast and put it before her guest . |
| 8 | Paint brown wood markings and black knots on to the brown door , and paint light brown ‘ mushroom ’ markings into the white wedge of the toadstool . |
| 9 | This is a growing burden , given the government 's devolution of geriatric and mental care on to the ‘ community ’ while actually failing to provide support and relying instead on the voluntary services of women in the family . |
| 10 | Sally explains : ‘ I designed a cropped pin-stripe jacket which I thought I would sequin but it was too heavy , so I have put bright , luminous shiny pink and purple braiding on to a man 's pin-stripe suit material . |
| 11 | Should the only answer be to tack more and more suburbs on to the edge of Reading and more ‘ executive housing ’ on to the fringes of Berkshire or Hampshire villages ? |
| 12 | He opened the rear door and folded Goldman on to the seat ; his legs trailed into the road and Elliott tucked them up on the seat . |
| 13 | The company was bound by law to connect English and Welsh generators on to the grid system . |
| 14 | A hissing noise from the stove diverted him and he turned , expertly flipping bacon , fried bread and two eggs on to a plate , and Robbie realised that her mouth was watering . |
| 15 | I had bought an Afro wig and added hooks on to a charm bracelet , then worked out three minutes of self-deprecating material which I wrapped up in a song — Roberta Flack 's ‘ Killing Me Softly ’ . |
| 16 | Transfer the third and every following seventh and twelfth stitches on to the adjacent needle at the left and right of centre 0 on your usual set up test piece of approximately 5 centimetres , 2 inches stocking stitch . |