Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jean-Paul looked down at his own oiled body , then spat on to his palm for added lubrication . |
| 2 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 3 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 4 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 5 | As he progressed over the cobbled stretches of roads that give the race its title ‘ Hell of the North ’ , he was cheered on by police and public alike . |
| 6 | Cheered on by a large crowd , they added two more goals . |
| 7 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 8 | He will be on the wing for Oxford this afternoon and will be cheered on by his father Malcolm , the last South African to win an Olympic medal before isolation ( the 400m bronze in Rome in 1960 ) . |
| 9 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 10 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 11 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 12 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 13 | Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat . |
| 14 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 15 | Fortunately the couple had had a telephone number for the party Lori had left with , and a telephone call this morning had vouchsafed the unwelcome information that Lori had already flown on to Medellín . |
| 16 | After a brief stop-over at Patriot Hills they will be flown on to Punta Arenas in Chile where the expedition radio base was located . |
| 17 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 18 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 19 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 20 | She bit her lip hard as cool sun lotion was smoothed on to her hot skin . |
| 21 | In Colombia , many of the peasants were persuaded to give up their coffee and cocoa trees , which though not highly productive , could be relied on to produce and , instead , to take up seasonal crops such as corn , soybeans and tomatoes . |
| 22 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 23 | The British tabloids , always to be relied on to turn a mild comment into a raging scandal , did just that , hilariously suggesting that The Smiths , as always , led by manic vegetarian Morrissey , were inciting the nation 's kids to go shoplifting . |
| 24 | Nancy could always be relied on to be there in an emergency . |
| 25 | It has come as a shock to realise that your magazine can no longer be relied on to present the relevant information in a straightforward factual manner . |
| 26 | The object of the executors ' year is to protect the personal representatives from demands for immediate payment but it is not to be relied on to cover undue delay in dealing with the estate . |
| 27 | Assuming that this statement is correct , these testers could prove lethal , and should certainly only be used by competent people with a considerable degree of electrical knowledge ; and they definitely should n't be relied on to check if a circuit is dead . |
| 28 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 29 | Free-scoring Ally McCoist has a modest international record — only 13 goals from 43 games — and no-one else can be relied on to fire the bullets . |
| 30 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |