Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv prt] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I switch on , I want you to go down the steps , sit down quietly on the floor by the end of the nozzle … and I want you to apologise . |
| 2 | Both sleep through Today on the radio . |
| 3 | As Edward looked around he saw everything determinedly perpetuating itself — buds forming , leaves unfurling , seeds setting , the whole place off again on the same mindless uncaring cycle , while Edward stood there in the midst of it , quite alone . |
| 4 | I knew what they had in mind , they knew my way of working , which cut down enormously on the number of meetings we needed to plan shows out . |
| 5 | So I said to them pop down there on the way home , check it out |
| 6 | And so to Nepal … we 're in the walled city of Bhaktapur … this is the place where many adaventures start from … the great climbing expeditions pass through here on the way to everest … we 're here for a sporting first … the first ever Kathmandu marathon |
| 7 | TWO Britons set off yesterday on the first trans-atlantic hot-air balloon race . |
| 8 | The two would take low stances in the cages and stare out together on the world , separated by bars but joined in a common sympathy . |
| 9 | The continents just drift around passively on the backs of the mantle convection cells , like great rafts , with the ‘ leading ’ edges of the rafts being dragged down and thickened where they encounter descending oceanic crust . |
| 10 | A play runs for two weeks , but books stay up there on the shelf . |
| 11 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 12 | Their families , if they come over too , live down below on the edge of the city in a sort of ghetto . |
| 13 | When this happens swim vigorously into wind and pull down hard on the mast |
| 14 | No , she must have invisibly ascended through those upwards-sloping corridors and irritating little steps , and come down again on the spiral staircase . |
| 15 | A sell-out 23,000 gate also saw high hurdler Colin Jackson miss out narrowly on the overall men 's title . |