Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I let the money slip through my fingers on to the floor . |
| 2 | They tub the velvet off their antlers on to the trees and take off the bark but , , they do n't do enough damage to matter . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ she said , ‘ how — how jolly , ’ and then she put her spoon suddenly into her ice cream and the whole glistening thing slid smoothly off her plate on to the shining red table . |
| 4 | As I move and start to nestle my shin against a calf whose muscles are loosened by sleep , she senses what I 'm doing , and without waking reaches up with her left hand and pulls the hair off her shoulders on to the top of her head , leaving me her bare nape to nestle in . |
| 5 | After she 'd cleared up lunch she hoisted Ethel 's huge ox heart out of its water on to the chopping board . |
| 6 | Last night she 'd tried to toss the covers off , then cried weakly , tears leaking down the sides of her nose on to the sheet . |
| 7 | She emptied the contents of her bag on to the bed , smiling ruefully at the conglomeration of articles , some of which she had carried about forever . |
| 8 | He began to dump the contents of his pockets on to the table : dirty tissues , a few coins , empty crisp packets , some more money … . |
| 9 | Eight months previously ZTT 's Paul Morley had used the XL image factory and Katherine Hamnett to plaster fragments of his prose on to the chests of the nation 's youth . |
| 10 | Partridge had got all angry and upset soon too because as he was struggling with Steven a magazine fell out of his trousers on to the towpath of the canal and the other men had picked it up and it had been a spanking magazine so all the other men who were n't laughing and shouting already started teasing partridge ; Partridge started trying to wrestle Steven to the ground but Steven had got free and clouted the other man with the shovel , which was still bloody from hacking the cat to bits , and after that , with the magazine coming apart as the other men grabbed at it and Partridge rolling about dazed on the towpath in the cat 's blood and almost falling into the canal , Dan Ashton had said soberly that enough was enough and they 'd better go and see Mr Smith the supervisor because they just could n't go on like this . |
| 11 | ‘ Now I 've got five stitches and there 's a one-inch larva covered in spines preserved in a jar with my name on in the hospital . |
| 12 | You can also draw the map of an island with buried treasure on it , and each child places a flag with their name on in the spot where they think the treasure is likely to be . |
| 13 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 14 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 15 | ‘ His name is Matthew Blake , ’ Mandy informed Charity as they descended the steps from their cabin on to the paved pathway that led to the lodge . |
| 16 | Robyn held it out at arm 's length , glanced at it and then cursed as she saw the blood that dripped from her fingers on to the black plastic . |
| 17 | Laura fell from her chair on to the dead boy on the floor . |
| 18 | MOTORISTS were made late for work yesterday by a llama which wandered from its farm on to the A22 at Forest Row , Sussex . |
| 19 | Rain ran down the harsh planes of his face and dripped from his chin on to the slick oilskin . |
| 20 | A figure darted from his cover on to the road . |
| 21 | There was the case of an Essex player who smeared Vaseline from his eyebrows on to the ball and thus altered its flight . |
| 22 | By then a stream of colourless but pungent lemon-scented oil was dripping from his hands on to the floor and the cotton-wool . |
| 23 | The ash fell from his cigarette on to the table-cloth . |
| 24 | We push ourselves higher and higher into the air and our shoes fall from our feet on to the concrete below us . |
| 25 | She showed them the small lake in its ring of reeds , took them to the first slopes of the mountain , rigged up a fishing rod for Michael and took him to the part of the lake she used to fish as a girl , and soon he was shouting out in glee as he missed the ravenous little perch or swung them out over his head on to the bank . |
| 26 | Then , very slowly and deliberately , Doyle tore the two halves of the photograph across and across , into a shower of tiny pieces that fell through his fingers on to the floor . |
| 27 | His snowdrops were already wilting like wax candles in the warmth of his hand , and as he copied the mourners ahead of him and stood up , one flower slipped between his fingers on to the rust-coloured floor . |