Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl then had to sit nervously on the edge of the sofa — there were n't many chairs — while the guest stretched himself , yawning , naked and sweaty . |
| 2 | He took my passport off me and told me to sit down on a bench sat against the wall ; I picked up a magazine and read it while he checked my details . |
| 3 | She made for the door , but decided instead to sit down on a chair . |
| 4 | When she got to the top of the staircase and Mr Browning had gone back inside his apartment , she suddenly felt so ill she had to sit down on the stone step and compose herself before going on . |
| 5 | I tried to sit down on the bed and wait . |
| 6 | Corbett smiled and walked back to sit down on the stool while Father John bowed to Wishart and silently left the room . |
| 7 | I stumbled to the first landing before the recurring cramp forced me to sit down on the floor . |
| 8 | She debated whether to sit down on the carpet for a while but shook herself and rang the bell . |
| 9 | She had to sit down on the ground . |
| 10 | He led them to within thirty yards of the unsuspecting deer , then motioned for Joseph to sit down on the ground at the edge of the plain . |
| 11 | ‘ He made his way along the road until a colleague told him to sit down on the pavement . |
| 12 | Stepping back from the display cabinets , hoping to sit down on the window-seat , she made a false move and bumped into something cold . |
| 13 | there should be a requirement for firms to report quarterly on the adequacy of their financial resources ; |
| 14 | More and more armies were becoming reliable though still very cumbersome machines , mechanisms which could be relied on to perform competently on the battlefield the evolutions in which they had been trained , and to stand enemy fire without flinching . |
| 15 | ‘ I do n't suppose you had time to see much on the way here ? ’ |
| 16 | In a unique demonstration they left their schools to sit in on a county council meeting discussing the cuts.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 17 | Tim Robbins , it was rumoured , might wish his American publicist to sit in on the conversation . |
| 18 | We 'll also want to sit in on the cochon gris 's ceremony tonight , if there is one . ’ |
| 19 | Opening the meeting of the Economic Planning Council , the Chairman , Lord Hampshire , surprised members by announcing that the Prime Minister intended to sit in on the transport debate , which was the subject of a White Paper about to be discussed on the floor of the House . |
| 20 | We used to slide down on a tray , though we were in trouble if he caught us , mind ! |
| 21 | ‘ The residents are all going to oppose this , and a lot of them are planning to go along on the day of the appeal , ’ she said . |
| 22 | You could be very happy if you are not putting your enjoyment in second place or you could be making the most enormous compromises because you lack the courage to go alone on the sort of holiday that you would really enjoy . |
| 23 | Danny has to go down on the floor , put his hands on hips and go , evening all ! |
| 24 | And course that used t that used to go down on the bed and when you pulled that be there so many years , your hands all went purple and that 'd be days before that went off . |
| 25 | To fall down on the sofa and tear off her clothes and beg him to make wild , abandoned love to her . |
| 26 | An alternative approach , which will be adopted in this chapter , is to concentrate rather on the possibility of identifying divisions which pertain to particular object domains and which may not be consistent with any cohesive representation or society . |
| 27 | By the 1940s and 1950s the Red Poll was one of Britain 's major breeds but , in the rush to set up new herds , breeding standards began to slip badly on the farm , while at the same time the invading Friesian , fed on concentrates , considerably outyielded the breed and by the early 1960s its popularity had tumbled . |
| 28 | She waited a moment for the signal to appear somewhere on the grid , then leaned forward to key the search sequence again , thinking she must have made a mistake . |
| 29 | If they want to come along on the day and enjoy themselves , that 's fine ; we 're even providing a bouncy castle , so children can bounce for the rainforests at the Banbury walk . |
| 30 | From inside the house the scratchy gramophone burble of " Muskrat Ramble " was providing an incongruous counterpoint to the screech of the wild birds wakening unseen in the roof of the surrounding jungle , and Duclos sighed and closed his eyes to concentrate better on the music . |