Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Consider for a moment the bustle of the scene a hundred years ago , with horse-drawn barges and occasional steam tugs nearing the end of their journeys or perhaps setting out on the return trip towards the sea . |
| 2 | Diving below the dusky water 's surface I see twenty chairs or so strewn about on the pool floor . |
| 3 | Alluvial gold , which most commonly occurs as dust or fine flakes , the residue left behind when lighter materials have been removed by the flow of natural waters , can be won by simple sluicing or washing , or even picked up on the surface in the form of nuggets shaped by the compression of fine particles into compact masses by natural forces . |
| 4 | Lambert nursed his coughing , shaking aircraft back to the field and thankfully touched down on the first available yard of turf . |
| 5 | As he rounded the leeward mark for the first time , Pat Marshall in 9th place found himself being covered by Simon Allen and so went off on the opposite tack to get clear of the dirty wind , followed by Chris Eyre . |
| 6 | You can do this quite simply by lifting the forelimbs together and gently pressing down on the top of the shoulders . |
| 7 | ‘ But if the players are only going to produce their best in the glamour games and not pick up on the importance of matches against the likes of Wimbledon and Sheffield United , then they wo n't be playing when the big games come round again — it 's as simple as that . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Tonight why do n't we just skip all the 4 play mama , and just get down on the floor ! ’ |
| 10 | I say , like I say I just just red er paint summat like , these are white these and just go down on the red and just up there and just up here , just get your displays |
| 11 | Erm so it 's worth doing that we I , cos I was gon na go I was gon na go Thursday and just come back on the Monday but as it is now we 'll go Wednesday and have Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , Saturday , Sunday night , so we 'll come back on the Monday . |
| 12 | Sometimes you have wisdom teeth that have hung on in there for so long they wo n't come out and just lounge about on the X-rays , flicking V-signs . |
| 13 | Not from the beach — I think the salt there would probably kill hookworm — but in the back streets of the town , where the sewage system was n't what it might have been , and also walking around on the wooden deck of an old schooner sailing to Aldabra . |
| 14 | The group 's sound engineer , Mike Stout , deputised and also stood in on the few occasions Solowka chose to attend Leeds United matches instead of gigs . |
| 15 | His plan was to wait until Pearman had left , and then creep up on the baker 's young wife , knock her unconscious with the cudgel , and be off with the takings . |
| 16 | A stroll in the moonlight by the old St Joseph 's seminary and the lake , and then looking down on the lights of Wigan . |
| 17 | looked at some trains and then went back on the D M U. |
| 18 | So the best thing is to put the piece of paper in in a wadge and then come out on the outside and pack it vertically and put them next to each other like that . |
| 19 | He finishes after a bit and then jumps up on the window ledge . |
| 20 | Town 's drugs are often made in Britain , flown to the Far East or some other convenient staging post and then brought back on the next night — to be sold more cheaply than if they had never left Britain . |
| 21 | Those who could not escape put in a token appearance , showing themselves before the delegates from their local constituency association and then scuttling off on the first train back to civilization . |
| 22 | So gi , they 'll probably go down to Munich and then drop down on the motorway from Munich |
| 23 | He comes home at 8am to snatch an hour 's snooze and then sets off on the bus for a full day 's preaching to the people whose failing legs ca n't get them to church . |
| 24 | All they needed was a lot of practice and some supervision and correcting , and occasionally putting back on the right track when they strayed . |
| 25 | But I 'm very disappointed about that , because er coming into the final furlong , Lester was going very well on the inside , but just lost out on the photo finish . |
| 26 | INDIAN wonder boy Sachin Tendulkar wrote his name into the Yorkshire record books with a 69-ball century at Headingley yesterday — but still ended up on the losing side . |