Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if researchers home in on the record as the first level of access , ignoring the surrounding administrative context and archival structure which forms part of its meaning , will understanding be fostered or impaired ? |
| 2 | Hurst nodded and started to pin the team-sheets back up on the board . |
| 3 | And when old words die out on the tongue , new melodies break forth from the heart ; and where the old tracks are lost , new country is revealed with its wonders . |
| 4 | Michael looked up from where he knelt on the floor in front of the old armchair , his books spread out on the chair . |
| 5 | He put the card face down on the table and brushed off the torn fragments of paper with the side of his sore hand . |
| 6 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 7 | 156 cars set off on the rally on Sunday . |
| 8 | There was a damp start for fund-raisers yesterday , when walkers set out on the annual march from Cultra to Bangor to raise funds for the Northern Ireland Hospice in Belfast 's Somerton Road . |
| 9 | Five parties set out on the night of 11 July , led by Martin , Jellicoe , Jordan , Fraser and Mayne . |
| 10 | It was n't long before she heard Douglas 's car draw up on the short gravel drive . |
| 11 | Their heads thrash about on the bloodied floor , gnashing their teeth and foaming at the mouth . |
| 12 | So when on 16 August the letter drops on the door mat , the phone call comes from school , or the lists go up on the notice board , teenagers who have failed to get the right grades for that coveted university of polytechnic place may feel that the world has come to an end . |
| 13 | Sue and Bert come in on the Friday whenever and then open an account |
| 14 | Was that slightly pooped gentleman with the waving arms who had ( oh God ! ) told Lord Boddy that his views were absolutely fascinating , and ( oh God oh God ! ) lit another of the television company 's cigarettes with their silver butane table-lighter every time he had seen the red light come up on the camera pointing at him — was that exuberantly shameful figure really identical with the anguished mortal man who now lay here stretched as taut as a piano-string in the dark ? |
| 15 | More voices join in on the radio circuit . |
| 16 | At Crackington Haven , flanked by the soaring cliffs of Cambeak and Pencannow Point , Atlantic rollers crash in on the tide . |
| 17 | A side view of the decamer ( Fig. 1 b ) shows that CsA-binding loops of CypA are on one face of the pentamer whereas the secondary structure elements line up on the opposite surface . |
| 18 | Jobs have been lost , mortgages forfeited and folk put out on the street — with their dogs . |
| 19 | If the more rural areas show up on the whole slightly better than the more populous places that is perhaps a feature that occurs in other aspects of Scottish life ; and let the indwellers in those backward centres of population not repine . |
| 20 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 21 | He loped across the bar , swinging his hips to show off his twin Colts , and got his polished pseudoleather boot up on the bar . |
| 22 | It was of the gate to Marie Claire 's villa : a clear bold drawing of the tall wrought-iron gate I had watched the girl go through on the first night I saw her . |
| 23 | So here 's the proof that not all one-miss blunders end up on the dole queue . |
| 24 | Fell from a second-floor window smack down on the flagstones not a yard from where you 're standing . |
| 25 | Now , all of those criticisms come about on the work that 's been done which has mostly been done on the recognition of characters and letters . |
| 26 | Bones bore down on the obstacle and Hoomey shut his eyes . |
| 27 | After Kensaleyre , this beautiful road , a territory of hawks , runs by Loch Snizort Beag , and from the calm grassy uplands , well-to-do houses look down on the waters where the opportunities for boats seem infinite . |
| 28 | For goodness sake crack down on the use of the word potager , which does not appear in my dictionary ( Concise , Oxford ) . |
| 29 | Jezrael let her aching body melt back on the mattress . |
| 30 | He washed up and tidied up , and put the baize cover back on the table . |