Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.

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1 As I banked to port to make a full beam attack on the nearest 88 I sighted the 109s coming down on the other three .
2 Until the English clamped down on the custom my forefathers all used the prefix ‘ ap ’ in front of their names — the last king of South Wales , for instance , was Rhys ap Tewdwr .
3 The former British champion from Sunderland took the first step back on the road to championship level by stopping Clarkson with 65 seconds gone of the fifth round .
4 For you will learn that none of these things which are admired and sought after are of any good to those who attain them — for when they do get them , the burning heat is just as bad , there is the same tossing about on the sea , the same desire for what they do not have .
5 Some of them started to run towards the airport building , and a few knelt down on the wet tarmac .
6 It 's a fairly low risk erm threat at the moment , air strikes are cheap er they 're not particularly dangerous whether they 're effective or not is another matter , er and there 's no immediate come back on the domestic scene because no one is expecting any one state to be the saviour in that particular situation .
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