Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And e what I 'd put on what I 'd said to her Erm I think I 'd put on here , you know , Re refer to section five on on of the brainstorm list , and she 'd all she 'd typed in is , Where is section five of the brainstorm list , I could n't could n't find . |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | Up in the chestnut branches girls and boys were clambering about , hitting at the spiked green conkers and knocking them down on to the heads below . |
| 4 | The last remnant of the storm hits us , thick snow blotting out the view of anything , so reluctantly we call a halt and go back down on to the lake . |
| 5 | Containers and freight , craned down on to the raft from the deck of the LSL , would be lifted off by the giant Fiat Allis fork-lift trucks . |
| 6 | ‘ I remember to this day coming out after tea at Jo'burg , 1948-49 , going down on to the ground with Len ; vast crowd , and this fellow comes out of it and says ‘ only 30 more for the record , boys ’ . |
| 7 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 8 | Helpless , he toppled forward into blackness : his hand went limp and the knife clattered down on to the foot-rest . |
| 9 | The earlier smile , Sandra 's smile , lingered in the coffee bar until the proprietor began to bang the chairs upside down on to the tables , impatient to spend half an hour with Shirley Temple . |
| 10 | Some experts say that even if the eruption stopped today , the sheer pressure of lava piled up behind for six miles would bring debris cascading down on to the town anyway . |
| 11 | Shadows wavered backwards through the green railings and down on to the sunken slipway leading to the chain-ferry . |
| 12 | Now he saw his chance and desperation forced him to take the risk of climbing down on to the line in the darkness . |
| 13 | Drunks were making a din on the stairs and a sculptor was tearing up a collection of Kisling 's drawings and throwing them down on to the head of the concierge . |
| 14 | I went to my father and releasing his hands from their grip on the edge of the trolley , eased him down on to the carpet . |
| 15 | Holliman agreed to drive Stirling 's team down on to the road and along it until they were within easy striking distance of the airfield at Sirte . |
| 16 | Oscar sat inside his parked truck at the top of the slip road leading down on to the E 35 for traffic heading along the autobahn to Freiburg and Basle . |
| 17 | At the moment he 'd still have time to drive down on to the autobahn — providing the freezing fog came no closer . |
| 18 | At Batavia , the pall of ash took a fair while to arrive ; in the early morning of the twenty-seventh , the sky was clear , but by 10.15 it had become lurid and yellowish as the ash spread across the sky ; by 10.30 the first fine ash was actually sifting softly down on to the streets . |
| 19 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 20 | It was a very tricky operation to get the barrels safely down on to the road , up onto and across the pavement to the lift . |
| 21 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 22 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 23 | And they 'll have tanks for the sewage , which now drops straight down on to the tracks , of course . ’ |
| 24 | She disarmed herself , putting her grenades and pistol down on to the floor , and standing directly in front of the spy hole , but some ten feet away . |
| 25 | But there was nothing , and with a quick twist of her body she hoisted herself over the wooden rail to slither down on to the deserted deck . |
| 26 | The train pulled into Central Station and Nathan stepped down on to the platform with his case . |
| 27 | Unprofessionally , I looked up , to see the iron net of the scaffolding bending , swaying and finally tipping towards me as bolts snapped and lights crashed down on to the floor of the stage . |
| 28 | ’ He tossed them down on to the small saucer on the table . |
| 29 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 30 | Ellen , who was utterly delighted with her achievement , followed him to spray the churning mess over his hair , then down on to the decks of Dream Baby as Sweetman jumped panic-stricken from our gunwale . |