Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv prt] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know , ’ he said tersely , then , slowing down , he asked , ‘ Which would you rather do — go back to the party or drive up on to the Downs overlooking the sea and take a little stroll ? ’ |
| 2 | She went to the window , that window , ’ and he pointed to the french windows that led out on to the terrace . |
| 3 | Alexander took her hand and led her to the door that led out on to the path that wound down towards the beach . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , the discovery that young , vivacious , Tania Sheppey was about to enter motherhood , courtesy of centre-half Brian Rawlings , brought about a family rivalry that spilled over on to the football pitch , notably during a League game against Thornham Bridge . |
| 5 | Taliesin laughed , and Fael-Inis said , ‘ Why did you accompany Fergus and Fribble ? ’ and Taliesin glanced involuntarily to where Fergus 's body lay on the velvet-covered couch beneath the window that looked out on to the forest . |
| 6 | She stared unseeing out of the big plate-glass window that looked down on to the hotel 's rather undistinguished forecourt . |
| 7 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 8 | By the time I find a room it 's too late to do anything except go out on to the balcony and gaze down at the still-warm street , the signs . |
| 9 | She did not weep silently like her mother in a web of hands and hair , but noisily , like a child , with great sobs and huge tears that splashed down on to the brown wool of her skirt to which little bits of hay still clung from the afternoon . |
| 10 | To reach Ariel and her mother , he had to cross the stream ; he did so , night after night , using stepping stones over unearthly flashes of phosphorescence in the water , and stepping up on to the further bank , still unwilling , still keeping his mind on Rebecca and the love he had sworn to her , until once more he found himself at the entrance of Ariel 's cabin , once more gave orders to the guard to leave him , and entered to speak to her , disturbing her rest , though she had come to expect his call ; then after their unsatisfactory exchanges , he would lift the fronds at the entrance and leave again , only to succumb once more , and toss himself off in rage and helplessness , before he skulked back to Belmont . |
| 11 | It slipped into the water , disappeared beneath the surface and , fifteen seconds later , bobbed up again and hopped back on to the rock . |
| 12 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 13 | I rode Drifter with the first lot in the morning and crashed off on to the wood chippings halfway up the gallop . |
| 14 | The famous chandelier , with its thousand lights , broke away from its ropes and crashed down on to the people below . |
| 15 | I revived as I felt myself go hurtling through the air and crashed down on to the wooden planks of the scaffold . |
| 16 | And with that she reversed the van , turned it round and drove back on to the road . |
| 17 | The car reels and swerves up on to the pavement , crashing into a shopfront and shattering itself and the window panes . |
| 18 | The General rose from behind his enormous mahogany desk , without visibly gaining in stature , and came out on to the veranda to see us off . |
| 19 | He was holding a light in his hand and looking out on to the moor . |
| 20 | I picked up my cup and saucer and flopped down on to the half-moon hearthrug , curious as to what the desired effect of the substance was supposed to be , and wondering why it had n't worked , when I noticed the saucer felt thicker . |
| 21 | We reached the edge of the cliff and flopped down on to the soft turf . |
| 22 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 23 | Each morning trucks from the factory bumped along a dust road and turned down on to the low gravel bank where we were moored . |
| 24 | A sense that what had just happened involved her in some way made her pull herself together and run down on to the course where racecourse attendants were already putting up a screen . |
| 25 | There he pulled off his white turban and let his long black hair coil over his shoulder and drop down on to the ground . |
| 26 | When she came out leading Violet by the bridle , she went over to the mounting block and climbed up on to the horse . |
| 27 | At Ladbroke Grove a boy called Dean Miller , whom the rest of them knew and had teamed up with on the platform at Royal Oak , opened the door at the end of the car and climbed up on to the roof . |
| 28 | Wu Tsai shrugged , and climbed up on to the bank . |
| 29 | The child looked at her and climbed up on to the seat . |
| 30 | She pushed all serious thoughts to the back of her mind and climbed back on to the helter-skelter of excitement and self-confidence induced by the undisguised admiration of Karl Gesner . |