Example sentences of "[adv prt] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if the law was clear that in those circumstances they should have been on notice and should have therefore watched where the money was going , there would n't have been a problem and are we not saying that legitimate stock lending which I think is what is about is suggesting , if carried on properly on the market , would be all right , but if it immediately goes off market into the back doors and back rooms and people ca n't see what 's going on and the Financial Institutions take part in that , then they are doing something that un undoubtedly is probably going to cause loss to pension funds and should n't there be a clear law which makes them liable in those circumstances . |
| 2 | I ca n't see to put the needle on properly on the record |
| 3 | When they entered the front room , Father Poole sat down wearily on the nearest chair . |
| 4 | She hurried next door to get the spare one she always left with her neighbour , then let herself inside and sank down wearily on the bottom of the stairs . |
| 5 | The jet , with one person on board , came down right on the Derbyshire/South Yorkshire border . |
| 6 | And so perhaps the time had come just to sit down somewhere on the ground and wait . |
| 7 | Down below on the forecourt the tub flowers had been flattened into a sodden pink mush . |
| 8 | If I stand at the window ( which I am not going to do ) I can see a small fat man with a trilby hat , a British warm and what looks like a binocular case , standing down below on the other side of the road and peering up with an anxious concentration at this battered , paint-peeling semi-circle of so-called Mansion Flats . |
| 9 | Their families , if they come over too , live down below on the edge of the city in a sort of ghetto . |
| 10 | Down below on the staircase , the thing that had been Farley Peters was trying to crawl up the steps towards him . |
| 11 | Probably the most historic and also the most photogenic is that of the counts of Kyburg , perched high above woodlands and looking down fiercely on the river Toss . |
| 12 | Mrs Tilling viewed the proceedings with some misgivings , but sat herself down gingerly on the edge of the seat . |
| 13 | She sat down gingerly on the edge of a nearby armchair , took a mouthful of vodka and pulled herself together . |
| 14 | Joan had no wish to live in Denbigh Terrace , a house filled with all Branson 's memories and few of her own , and the pair moved in together on the Duende . |
| 15 | The robot sat down suddenly on the floor . |
| 16 | A lump came to her throat and she sat down suddenly on the safest-looking chair she could find . |
| 17 | With a toss of her blonde head , Ronni laid her glass down pointedly on the coffee-table that stood between them . |
| 18 | gone down anyway on the basic rate |
| 19 | But then suddenly Wallace played through … brought down just on the right of the area . |
| 20 | The impression was reinforced by Elton squatting down comfortably on the front-stage light box mid-story . |
| 21 | Softly , he sighed , drew in deeply on the cigarette , blew the smoke languidly towards the leafy canopy and said : |
| 22 | Three quick wickets went down early on the fourth morning , the first being Boon 's as he strolled a single , only to be embarrassed by keeper Pandit 's throw to the far end . |
| 23 | Serfdom survived in Russia , as in Rumania , chiefly in areas of grain production with a dense peasant population , where landlords could either compensate for their competitive weakness by raising labour services , or alternatively hope by the same method temporarily to cut themselves in cheaply on the grain export market . |
| 24 | She sat down quickly on the couch and hugged herself to keep from shaking . |
| 25 | Hari took the tea Beatie handed her and set it down quickly on the scrubbed wooden table . |
| 26 | To free herself of it , Ronni sat down quickly on the wooden seat behind her . |
| 27 | Jochim to Speedy Ormanroyd 's lay-off a good one for Lewis gets it in quickly on the left foot Ormanroyd and then Speedy collided with Pearce as he went in to try and turn the ball goalwards and it 's all ended up a goal kick . |
| 28 | Now he pressed his foot down harder on the accelerator and eased the Ford Scorpio past a car , cutting in ahead of the driver . |
| 29 | She pressed down harder on the gas pedal , coaxing more speed from the car , trying to put more distance between herself and the maniac in the Audi , but whoever was driving the pursuing car had no intention of letting her get away . |
| 30 | For example , many Westerners are indignant when seeing an Indian mahout raise high his ankus ( an iron rod with a hook at one end ) and bring it down smartly on the head of his inattentive elephant . |