Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To enable researchers to report back on the results of recently completed research in the Scottish courts to an invited audience comprising the various branches of the legal profession , policy makers concerned with the administration of justice , pressure group and voluntary organisations and to stimulate an informed discussion of key findings . |
| 2 | The little one 's heard Mummy pull up on the drive and has come down the stairs well before anyone could say anything he got it out . |
| 3 | Questions about purposes , content and learning are logically prior to questions about layout and organization : the latter should be set up to implement goals set out on the basis of attention to the former . |
| 4 | The reception , in a vast lightwell running north-south , is constantly catching light reflected down on the arcade of shops and a cafe beneath where patients may , in effect , ‘ go out ’ . |
| 5 | I saw tombs open and the terrifying silhouettes of walking corpses set out on the road . |
| 6 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 7 | ‘ I said I 'd seen Sam hanging about on the towpath with a bunch of yobs . ’ |
| 8 | Robert had the strong impression that they viewed unwanted spectators in the same spirit in which the ancient Greeks received people barging in on the Eleusinian mysteries . |
| 9 | Even now as he stood there by the kitchen table he could see Caspar closing in on the weaker lamb , and he could hear that weird and terrible wailing of Lee 's . |
| 10 | She wished there was a window in front , so she could see Midnight sitting up on the driver 's seat beside Hawkins . |
| 11 | On the first day the Champion Hurdle had been won by Kribensis ( owned by Sheikh Mohammed and trained by Michael Stoute ) from Nomadic Way ( owned by Robert Sangster and trained by Barry Hills ) — powerful Flat racing connections elbowing in on the jumping scene . |
| 12 | Similarly , Protagon have had tests carried out on the performance significance of being able to adjust string tensions . |
| 13 | Photographs may be prepared by placing negative sheets or printing papers face down on the glass viewing plate . |
| 14 | Stella the personnel administrator will not simply push paper around in Personnel but will take action to cut down on the bureaucracy . |
| 15 | He went home with a man who made love to him very violently on the living room floor , wanting to fuck Boy face down on the floor , and straight away , without any kissing ; the floor was covered with scraps of glittering sequined fabrics . |
| 16 | The dawn was breaking as the cars rolled off the ferry at North Wall ; there was a sullen , red-streaked sky , with banks of threatening clouds building up on the horizon . |
| 17 | Thankfully , the week after we whooped Chelsea to get back on the rails to that now famous title finale ( famous for us anyhow — right ? ) : - ) . |
| 18 | Tony and his friends made their way to the bar — homing pigeons coasting along on the wings of thirst . |
| 19 | Ipswich could have fallen further behind after 54 minutes when Wilkinson sent Hendrie tearing through on the left on his own . |
| 20 | I shrank back into the shadows of the alley and saw people passing by on the sidewalk . |
| 21 | A consultant with fly-away silver hair and an offensively breezy manner asks Kate to pop up on the table and just pop her pants down . |
| 22 | The result of this is likely to be that close work will present few difficulties , but more distant visual tasks such as reading sentences written up on the blackboard will give problems . |
| 23 | The Home Secretary Michael Howard has announced measures to cut down on the amount of police paperwork and put more officers back onto the streets . |
| 24 | The regional affairs commissioner , Bruce Millan , also announced intentions to tighten up on the EC 's additionality principle — the rule that EC spending must be additional to planned national government spending . |
| 25 | ( i.e. would miss seeing children go by on the way to and from school ) . |
| 26 | But such paradoxes were unlikely to convince businessmen brought up on the economic theory of the ‘ wage-fund ’ , which they believed to be a scientific demonstration that raising wages was impossible and trade unions were therefore doomed to failure . |
| 27 | I think Mr picked up on the points that I really wanted to address in Mr 's remarks . |
| 28 | Different special certificates can be obtained ( at a price of £1.50 ) to show banks , social security and building societies , for claiming from friendly societies , and for claiming insurance taken out on the life of the person . |
| 29 | He pushed open the arched wooden door of his house and went in , leaving Ruth standing out on the terrace . |
| 30 | Every evening throughout the winter thousands of birds , including Bewick Swans , Canada Geese and Greylag Geese queue up on the Swan lake for their late meal of wheat . |