Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But first it will be business as usual down on the farm . |
| 2 | Share prices showed little change throughout the day however and the FT-SE 100-Share Index closed just 1.0 down on the day at 2,817.0 , with just under 593 million shares changing hands . |
| 3 | In 1948 down on the River Thames in his home town of Henley he was preparing to race in an Olympic final . |
| 4 | In the computer graphics of Tron ( 1982 ) we are right down on the board with the players of video games , even if we do n't quite share their viewpoint ; the motorcycle shots , much quoted , show how exhilarating rapid movement along wholly imaginary perspectives can be . |
| 5 | So the camera was right down on the bottom . |
| 6 | I had my camera with me and I saw there was a ladder up on the top deck and when I got up on the top deck it was quite a giddy height , not to be bit I looked at the mast then I climbed up the mast up three quarters of the way up the mast and er the view from up there looked right down on the causeway . |
| 7 | I goes ‘ Annemarie I hope and trust and pray you are not going to put that down on the paper . |
| 8 | I find that the minute I write down , erm , you know , somebody phones me and says I want another meeting with you , let's make it for next Friday at three o'clock in the afternoon , and I find within half an hour of me writing that down on the calendar card in ink , er , the people who 's parentage I then start to question , phone back and say well whoops , you know we , we forgot we actually had another meeting then , and so on and so forth . |
| 9 | Does it feel like that down on the field , do you really start to feel frustrated ? |
| 10 | What I why I was emphasizing earlier on how important it is to get all this over on the telephone . |
| 11 | Er , I 've put a cloth on the top of it cos we 'd only put it in on the Tuesday and it was wet through on the top ! |
| 12 | Maggie did n't know exactly what his position was , but he was high up on the management side . |
| 13 | Corniglia is the hardest to reach as it , unlike all the others , is high up on the cliffs rather than by the sea . |
| 14 | This is an attractive and historic place , and very much a river town , having formed around the point where two dynamic Pyrenean torrents , the Gave d'Aspe from high up on the Col du Somport , and the Gave d'Ossau from even higher up on the ruggedly distinctive Pic du Midi d'Ossau , flow together . |
| 15 | The phone is high up on the wall . |
| 16 | The light flooded down from five roundels high up on the far long side , as though in a cathedral clerestory . |
| 17 | The body was high up on the shoal , was n't it ? |
| 18 | ‘ The sea has obviously come up and washed it out of the rocks and the heavy rain has probably washed the puddles of oil from high up on the banks where the sea was n't reaching . ’ |
| 19 | It was windy up on the ridge , and the ponies jogged impatiently as they reached the stretch of open turf which led over to the wood and the track through it . |
| 20 | Despite its sponsor membership of the Open Software Foundation , IBM Corp is to put Unix System V up on the RS/6000 . |
| 21 | And I put some up on the page three . |
| 22 | Applications totalled 96 — 35 more than last year and 22 up on the previous highest total two years ago . |
| 23 | Well if you 'd have seen that I mean I and she sleeps in the airing cupboard she 's now started to get in there , but she 's half out on the landing . |
| 24 | I remember thinking , ‘ Gosh , I did n't think I 'd left all this out on the floor . |
| 25 | We had finally thrashed this out on the ferry from Gibraltar to Tangier . |
| 26 | Er er it was like a Molotov co bo cocktail , a thing like that and you put it in the , in the tube and you put a wad of cotton , gun cotton behind it closed the flap at the back onto er just a latch , like a , a door a gate latch which locked it , then fired the cap which fired the gun cotton which sent the well then we we 're trying this out on the waste ground where the , that was then , where the waterworks ' offices are now in Green Lane , well there that was , at that time , that was a glue factory that was the glue factory there ooh . |
| 27 | He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen . |
| 28 | ‘ Tell the boy to bring this back on the 20th of March or there will be a fine of five rupees . ’ |
| 29 | Michael said there would be no special compensation so you can imagine why we 're concerned and why we have this back on the as a motion again . |
| 30 | The bulletin said the number of employees in plants in the Scottish electronics industry in 1991 was about 45,300 — 1,200 down on the previous year . |