Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [adv prt] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corden said he would consider going back on to the board if a new chairman extended an invitation . |
| 2 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 3 | There was stuff piled up in it till it 'd spilled over on to the pathway . |
| 4 | She 'd spotted him for the first time three weekends ago when she 'd walked out on to the nightclub stage to perform her warm-up spot for the star turn of the evening . |
| 5 | By this time , the whirligig of time had actually brought Hill back into fashion , and I hope that his shade had a cackle at the sight of the Thames executives attempting to clamber back on to the bandwagon . |
| 6 | I keep as many of your letters as I can store to look back on at the turn of the century , which we 're both going to see ! |
| 7 | You 've got to play down on to the ball . |
| 8 | With his free hand he started shaking his wallet until the money began to fall out on to the desk . |
| 9 | They did not make any hurry about it and Balor writhed and flailed helplessly and blood began to run out on to the ground beneath him . |
| 10 | He did n't have to be told why he should hurry — the sea was already beginning to trickle over on to the upper deck . |
| 11 | On arrival at Llandrindod we crossed over to the other platform to board the train which had arrived from Swansea — there being only nine minutes between arrival and departure — only to be told that we would have to go back on to the unit we had travelled up on . |
| 12 | But for Balbir , as for the majority of Asian girls who have turned to prostitution , they still think that it is too degrading for them to consider going out on to the streets . |
| 13 | ‘ I keep thinking she might have gone out on to the balcony instead . ’ |
| 14 | If I had so wished , I could have climbed out on to the wing and with the use of a telephoto got an unusual shot of the unique S-shaped ground with its mock-Wembley turrets in terracotta . |
| 15 | He put his hand round his neck , made a strange sound , and fell face down on to the floor . |
| 16 | With this , she released Belinda abruptly , and the chicken dinner went slopping over on to the tray again . |
| 17 | Eastwood admitted : ‘ I was upset at missing out in the World Cup final and really do want to get back on to the international scene as quickly as possible . |
| 18 | Accepting this , some members of the British Government seem to have fallen back on to the second misconception . |
| 19 | Perhaps the train in Aunt Louise 's mind had jumped back on to the rail for a while because it was then , in quite a conversational voice , that she began to speak of her daughter . |
| 20 | Then my granny had to come out on to the verandah and interfere . |
| 21 | One of the soldiers had come up on to the cabin top . |
| 22 | Jilly Jonathan was sitting just as she had been ever since they had come out on to the terrace . |
| 23 | Then , not even glancing at the room beyond , or at a woman who had come out on to the stairs , she led him away to a small room of perfect luxury at the back of the house , which was clearly her own . |
| 24 | In the less than half light Owen saw that Georgiades had come out on to the gallery . |
| 25 | Denholm , who had moved out on to the starboard wing , returned , lowering his binoculars . |
| 26 | Jasper had got down on to the floor and was grubbing about under the carpet . |
| 27 | Like this they bound slowly down the boulevard , with him laughing and kicking people 's hats awry as they come arcing back on to the pavement at the end of each step . |
| 28 | And , after the two of them had slipped down on to the expensive and discreet rug , the rest of his body also demonstrated its unimpaired mobility . |
| 29 | The Muslim 's bird had gone back on to the offensive , swooping down with its spurs and ripping a great gash along its enemy 's cheek . |
| 30 | Some weeks beforehand , I think perhaps when we were in Japan , I had read an article that Carl had written in which he said that in the Zurich race in August , when he had trounced Ben , he had not deliberately tried to race anybody but had gone out on to the track to run his own race , do his own thing . |