Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One participant has to describe a route traced out on the map so that both speaker and listener follow the identical route . |
| 2 | A lookout comes through on the radio . |
| 3 | My tranquillity was rudely interrupted as a wave crashed down on the rocks and sent a shower of spray over us as we huddled amongst the rocks on the headland . |
| 4 | The Battle of Britain was fought over their heads ; there were dog-fights in the Sussex summer skies , a Messerschmitt shot down on the peaceful Downs . |
| 5 | As I sit down to write I have a photograph propped up on the desk in front of me . |
| 6 | There was a boat drawn up on the shore , dark oak painted white to the water line , the prow a swan 's head . |
| 7 | He saluted a little man in tight trousers and a yachting cap , standing by a boat pulled up on the bank . |
| 8 | In his work Book availability and the library users , Buckland reports on a study carried out on the short loan collection at Lancaster University , in which he relates both the loan period and the library 's duplication policy to demand for individual titles . |
| 9 | A riot broke out on the evening of Aug. 10-11 in the southern city of Shenzhen involving 50,000-60,000 would-be investors who were protesting against unfair distribution of share application forms , which had been sold out earlier than expected . |
| 10 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 11 | A car swished by on the main road . |
| 12 | He could hear a car drawing up on the drive outside . |
| 13 | It occurred to him that being on foot was probably an advantage ; a car drawing up on the gravel would be heard from the house . |
| 14 | A car flashed by on the other side of the road . |
| 15 | But just before this happens , while the taste of melancholy on his tongue is strong enough to set off the sweetness of the place , and of his freedom to enjoy it , but not yet strong enough to overpower it , he sees the woman who is gazing at him from the balustrade of a terrace looking down on the street . |
| 16 | It 's all part of a plan to cut down on the quantity of rubbish being taken to already overflowing landfill sites . |
| 17 | The market ; always a place to catch up on the gossip as well as buy groceries , is still there . |
| 18 | So my reading of the evidence so far is that they did n't want a body lying around on the river bed , where it might come up sometime , or perhaps even be found by divers , but they wanted him carried under water well out to sea . " |
| 19 | An easy cart track heads north and in five minutes arrives at Dry Laithe Cave , commonly known as Calf Holes , where a stream coming down on the right disappears in a rash of rocks and passes into a cave under the track . |
| 20 | A stream comes down on the east side and disappears into a cave entrance admitting to a passage below the track where , on the west side , it is joined underground from an alternative pothole entrance . |
| 21 | He turned and charged quickly off into the forest to rescue his friend , only to find a German splayed out on the ground and Tommy still running on up the hill . |
| 22 | He felt mercifully isolated and stopped for a while to lean back on the lower bank of fell . |
| 23 | You see a name come up on the leaderboard , then it might disappear and you think to yourself , ‘ I wonder what happened to him ? ’ , and you forget him after a while . |
| 24 | Hidden Pot is succeeded by Gale Garth Pot , and when a wall comes in on the left , a detour along its south side is recommended to the point where it turns northwards . |
| 25 | A ‘ You could finish with a chain cast off on the front , instead of backstitching through the open stitches as usual . |
| 26 | It is rare for a dog to jump up on the third occasion . |
| 27 | Sweetheart was sitting in her favourite chair with her legs crossed at the knee and a magazine spread out on the table before her . |
| 28 | The final sweaty pull up the eroded rocky path to the summit plateau of Ingleborough was warm work and it was a relief to lie back on the dry grass , rucksack for a pillow . |
| 29 | And then , at four-thirty when she was just contemplating going off shift , a call came in on the red phone that made her feel cold inside . |
| 30 | By then he was standing behind the blackout blanket in his room , a comic spread out on the window-ledge where remnants of fading sunshine fell in brassy yellow stains . |