Example sentences of "on the [adj] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Bouncing off the sides or front on to the ground , being hit by other children , or just falling awkwardly while on the inflatable accounted for most of the injuries , ’ says the report . |
| 2 | Under such a description , which B at one point fitted , it verges on the punctilious to insist on judgment on the other points . |
| 3 | I 've watched Howard Kendall 's side recently , and the stuff they have been serving up has been bordering on the pathetic compared to earlier performances this season . |
| 4 | Faye was lying on the outdoor lounger on the veranda as she had been yesterday , and she greeted Belinda briefly , her face creased with tension , before turning to Tom . |
| 5 | That put him on the 142 mark alongside Sam Torrance ( 72 ) , with McAllister just behind . |
| 6 | The committee , as if for protection against the masses , elected to follow Auguste 's example and had reserved a first-class railway compartment on the 10.45 express from Victoria . |
| 7 | Beaverbrook considered it an achievement that the USA and UK had settled on the 1943 draft as a formula for future negotiations , but US ambassador John Winant , at lunch with Churchill , Berle , and Beaverbrook , thought the Prime Minister wanted the Lord Privy Seal to ‘ soft-pedal ’ the internationalization aspect so as not to offend the USA . |
| 8 | Indeed , he had to hole from 12 feet on the 72nd to get into a sudden-death play-off with Bruce Lietzke . |
| 9 | At the end of the summer , passenger revenue over the main line was up , but a recent journey eastwards on a Wednesday on the 13:10 started from Aberystwyth with only six passengers . |
| 10 | D306 ( 40106 ) leaves Wansford complete with ‘ Royal Scot ’ headboard on the 15.20 bound for Peterborough ( Nene Valley ) . |
| 11 | So great was the carnage that warriors fought over bodies of the dead and ravens feasted on the wounded trapped inside the mounds of corpses . |
| 12 | ‘ If the going is suitable , Whaat Fettle could come back here next Thursday for another handicap chase , ’ added the trainer , joining Martin Pipe on the 33 mark for the season . |
| 13 | It has been a question which was first asked prior to Ofahengaue making his Wallaby debut when a late inclusion in the touring party on the 1990 tour to New Zealand . |
| 14 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 15 | He found him , stout and pink , in a brown suit , knee-breeches , and blue-grey stockings , sitting in the farm kitchen on the wooden settle by the fire , smoking a long clay pipe . |
| 16 | I want you to do something now which is a little on the same talking about how we . |
| 17 | His time with England has had its ups and downs , most notably on the 1988 tour to Australia . |
| 18 | CHESTER-based Paul Affleck and South African Ian Palmer both joined Ian Woosnam on the 67 mark in the first round of the Honda Open in Hamburg yesterday . |
| 19 | We have made submissions to the Commission with our views on proposed life assurance and pensions directives and we have had successful meetings with representatives of the Commission on the issued raised in both these areas . |
| 20 | Erm so two pounds of that went with sale with the sale of the journal and so we can say we had twelve pounds unsolicited donations , erm as Peggy would back me up if she was here , saying that any time you ask someone to sign the flood gates open with what they thought about the position of pensioners , in fact we 've probably got a lot more signatures if they had n't , but erm , we did pick up , we , I picked up the news about Welwyn Garden City 's cost of and things like that not going through and erm , erm , now , our month our monthly , our monthly stall will not be on the third third Thursday this year , it will be on the fourth to co-inside with the week were celebrating pensioner 's week , which is a week behind National . |
| 21 | Numbers on the left refer to the molecular weight standards ( MW st ) . |
| 22 | The molecular weight markers on the left apply to the amplifications of human DNA and those on the right to the amplifications of schistosome DNA . |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been on the Common looking for little green men has it ? |
| 24 | The first certain quotation of the Bible in a Greek philosopher is to be found in the treatise On the Sublime attributed to Longinus which is usually dated in the first century A.D … ( 9.8 ) . |