Example sentences of "[vb pp] [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 liked Brahms 's youthful B major Trio for its wholly natural flow — as if the players were carried along willy-nilly on the music 's own tide . |
| 3 | Inside the walls , in a similarly enlightened spirit , the conquerors destroyed most of the courtyards of the palace , leaving — and that grudgingly — little in the inner enclosure except the Pearl Mosque and a single string of pavilions spaced out also on the Jumna battlements . |
| 4 | Even in very large organizations one finds that the original conceptual activities were carried out initially on the drawing board , advancing to cardboard models to verify their ideas . |
| 5 | They 'd all grown up together on the same corpy estate , been to the same sink school , gone out with the same dreary lads . |
| 6 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 7 | The big ships , those drawn up far on the shore , had tumbled together , smashing one another to powder . |
| 8 | Most years it was washed up again on the next or a later tide , but this was of no consequence so long as the Scapegoat had gone . |
| 9 | She looked very sweet propped up there on the pillows ; and very clean and tidy , as seriously ill patients often do . |
| 10 | You should , in general , use the printed solution for illustrative purposes ; thus an error of principle should be pointed out clearly on the student 's solution , but if the printed solution expands and illustrates the point , then particular reference can be made to it . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've got a man trussed up here on the floor like a Christmas turkey . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ As you saw , I 've got my tent set up now on the island . |
| 13 | ‘ Three lines of three figures were marked out there on the shell , as plain as could be seen , the Yin numbers in the corners , the Yang numbers in the centre , and each line — horizontal , vertical and diagonal — adding up to fifteen . |
| 14 | It 's also important to preserve original documents imposing restrictive covenants , granting or reserving easements , etc , since the terms of these are often not set out fully on the Register , and reference to them , and to the exact terms of a covenant , may be necessary at a later date . |
| 15 | PLOUGHMAN 'S LUNCH : If it 's a sandwich , why are the ingredients laid out separately on the plate ? |
| 16 | He had expected to stay at the Dog and Gun , a tavern well known for its radical associations , where unstamped , illegal newspapers had always been laid out openly on the bar-counter for the perusal of anyone so inclined . |
| 17 | One sees this not only on the ground , travelling through these parts , but it is also brought out clearly on the Ordnance map . |
| 18 | Psychotic tortoises would have gone down well on the North Gate . ’ |
| 19 | gone down anyway on the basic rate |
| 20 | But since 1985 governments have cut down drastically on the amount they are spending on health . |
| 21 | She was buoyed up suddenly on the wave of amazement and admiration that she could feel enveloping her from across the whole room . |
| 22 | The glasses and the bottle of wine were slammed back down on the bedside table and then his hand around her wrist was a shock . |
| 23 | But just when it seemed the writing was about to be put back up on the wall , Kendall found an unlikely saviour . |