Example sentences of "[adv] on [pos pn] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tall , dark-haired girl had prepared the way for me , and I said ‘ Now let us all kneel , and cry to that same Jesus who spoke those words , ’ and down on their knees they fell every one of them , reverently , on that damp stone floor , some saying the words after me , others moaning and weeping . |
| 2 | ‘ Honest to God , ’ Violet said , begging , pleading , ready to go down on her knees she saw , a glint ; it quaked her bowels , the steel of the cut-throat razor . |
| 3 | Sit down on your bottoms everybody now please . |
| 4 | I could no longer contain my emotion , but going down on my knees I wept as quietly as I could for quite a long while . |
| 5 | They walk into the corner of the TV set and you think they 've broken their skull , but they just bounce off ; next moment they sit down very gently on their bottoms which are padded with what looks like fifteen nappies and they burst into tears . |
| 6 | For Michael Walsh , working alone on his videos it was totally a ‘ self-evaluation ’ , sacrificing the stimulation of another teacher 's ideas and perceptions to benefit from the security of working alone . |
| 7 | I can see that this one 's still not on his feet you obviously noticed , he 'll walk about when you hold his hands |
| 8 | Still on my knees I edged round to face north . |
| 9 | If you 've ever bought a leather product with gold writing on it saying ‘ real leather ’ or ‘ a present from Bognor ’ , and the writing has come off on your fingers it 's been done by ‘ cold foil ’ printing . |
| 10 | The soles of her feet and the then they knew she 'd been up on her feet you know . |
| 11 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 12 | Women would come up to me very unhappy about how I walked out on my children they REALLY believed I was their mother . |
| 13 | But then on my travels I met a vampire which had escaped a great war with the Time Lords of Gallifrey . |