Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The driver sat drumming his fingers nervously on the steering wheel while the attendant busied himself filling the tank , checking the oil and radiator , and wiping the windscreen . |
| 2 | Cos you see if you put your ace down , ace of clubs right on the top and I put the rest of the clubs , put it down |
| 3 | Before the end of the 18th century , this was confirmed by the Society electing to have three contests annually on the day of the papingo shoot — one each for the ‘ gentlemen ’ , the ‘ merchants and tradesmen ’ , and the ‘ boys ’ , with only the ‘ gentlemen ’ eligible to shoot for the papingo trophy . |
| 4 | Finally , the false vocal cord theory is supported by the evidence of the simple action of placing your fingers gently on the throat of a purring cat — there is no doubt , then , that the purring sound is stemming from the region of the voice-box , and it is hard to see why any alternative theory should have been put forward . |
| 5 | So you thought gliding was a pleasant way of spending leisure time away from the cares and woes down on the ground . |
| 6 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 7 | Jay trembled and clamped her teeth together on a chill sip of wine , the kiss of alcohol meaningless on the tight-lipped blues . |
| 8 | The bouncer — bullies , as they were called in Dublin — stepped away from Lee , and eased the hammers down on the shotgun . |
| 9 | Lisa drummed her fingers impatiently on the phone table . |
| 10 | There were the inevitable demands that the new Soviet ‘ threat ’ be repulsed : the United States , some thought , should forget about the Europeans and concentrate its diplomatic and military skills entirely on the Pacific . |
| 11 | The three judges dismissed five of the six grounds of their appeal , quashing the verdicts only on the possibility that their hands could have been " innocently " contaminated with nitroglycerine , perhaps by drying their hands on a contaminated towel in Anne Maguire 's bathroom ( although no towel was tested ) . |
| 12 | McKean also got his tactics right on the track , even if later , when he should have been on the victory rostrum , he got ‘ boxed in ’ by some members of the press . |
| 13 | With Holderness being very flat land it was often swampy and wet , so people originally tended to build their homes somewhere on a hill . |
| 14 | ‘ They would beat the boundary stones or other landmarks with willow wands and sometimes the adults would bump the children 's heads gently on the ground to imprint the knowledge in their memories . ’ |
| 15 | Tenderly , he put the smaller of his two tortoises down on the floor . |
| 16 | You feel that the music carries the words along on the back of its urge to secure release . |
| 17 | In all the restaurants down on the coast they offer you very much the same salad , sometimes with a few olives , cucumber slices and cos lettuce all prettily arranged on a flat dish , a mixture not unlike the salade niçoise of Southern France . |
| 18 | At just 7 stone 7 , Sam Benham wo n't be rocking the Oxford boat , but her call up as cox has caused a few ripples and waves down on the Thames . |
| 19 | The myth of happy and contented animals down on the farm is now far from the truth . |
| 20 | She put the books down on the vanity table and with trembling fingers opened her handbag to find her face powder . |
| 21 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 22 | The first stanza homes in on the particulars but then , in the second , there is a general perspective given , on the whole world , dealing with a big issue . |
| 23 | A bat is a machine , whose internal electronics are so wired up that its wing muscles cause it to home in on insects , as an unconscious guided missile homes in on an aeroplane . |
| 24 | I watched both them and Mathews closely throughout both days while he was giving evidence , and for most of the time all three of the judges had their heads and eyes down on the notes they were keeping . ’ |
| 25 | A Muse sits on a rock , and Apollo before her stands not on the base-line but on an irregular indication of ground just clear of it . |
| 26 | In junior Scrabble , the children either fill in words already on the Scrabble board , or select words from a list . |
| 27 | Naylor Massingham , she saw , had his eyes not on the file under discussion , but on her . |
| 28 | I then broke away because I saw two fighters above on the port side . |
| 29 | Too fast an approach speed may alarm drivers already on the roundabout why may think you are going to drive onto the roundabout in front of them ; if they brake hard or swerve this may cause a following driver to panic and cause an accident . |
| 30 | Operational records are described as giving day-to-day information such as lists of books issued to each user or listings giving the whereabouts of books not on the shelves . |