Example sentences of "[adv prt] on [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | no well because your looking down on every body else you tend to feel erm , well I feel sort of that you 've got to er feel responsible for them and look after them |
| 2 | The 29 booksellers and stationers responding to the CBI survey were among the disappointed retailers , with 59% reporting sales volume down on a year ago and 57% describing the volume of sales as poor for the time of year . |
| 3 | down on a year ago , and is only 6 per cent . |
| 4 | Exports declined to $27.97 billion , 0.5 per cent down on a year previously , but imports fell 2.8 per cent to $17.41 billion , the ministry said . |
| 5 | You going down on a weekend darling ? |
| 6 | Bob Hoover in his yellow P-51 shepherded Rare Bear as Shelton put her safely down on a taxiway where he was forced to ground-loop , without damage . |
| 7 | A tiny spider floated down on a thread from a purple-headed thistle and scuttled over her hand . |
| 8 | ‘ The spider came down on a thread in front of me while I was driving . |
| 9 | Last night she and her mother bedded down on a mattress in the back of their secondhand horse-box eating food heated up on a mobile stove because they refused to pay the London prices of the arena 's eating places . |
| 10 | I was led into a dark room and told to lie face down on a mattress on the floor . |
| 11 | I 'm feeling real heavy and tired and my feet 's aching so I have a sit down on a wall and swing my legs for a bit . |
| 12 | but I would imagine down on a floor it would look very , the diamonds would be too much if you |
| 13 | He jotted the three names down on a slip of paper with a gesture of finality and picked up the internal telephone , stabbing out the number for the code-room . |
| 14 | Through the crack he saw McGowan holding the tourist down on a bed . |
| 15 | The second cell ( 82c ) contains a moaning , naked Orc chained down on a bed of nails which rip the boil-infested flesh on his back . |
| 16 | Nell helped him to lie down on a blanket , supporting his head with another . |
| 17 | I 'd also taken stock of just how deep the ravine was a yard or so to my right — on a previous visit to this rocky Brecon summit I 'd looked down on a pair of RAF Tornadoes streaking through on a high-adrenalin exercise . |
| 18 | Nor are folk expected to doss down on a pair of planks across the bath . |
| 19 | He put his coffee cup down on a pile of English magazines , got up and stretched himself . |
| 20 | As soon as his hands were free , Huw ducked away , retrieving a shirt and jersey that had been flung down on a pile of beer-crates , saying over his shoulder : ‘ Look , I 'd better be pushing off . |
| 21 | Burun sat down on a pile of cushions on the floor , and settled himself to wait . |
| 22 | In this small picture , you look down on a couple of hundred thousand people and their bodies are as invisible as microbes . |
| 23 | A college lecturer in Redcar was reduced to a nervous wreck and had to call the police to get rid of salesmen while in Northallerton a salesman suggested he bedded down on a couple 's sofa while they slept on £5,000 offer . |
| 24 | One threatened to bed down on a couple 's settee while they slept on a purchase , while an angry consumer from Redcar had to call police to get rid of another salesman . |
| 25 | Jenny Weston , 34 , claimed Colin Webb made a barrage of unrelenting sexual demands and once pinned her down on a hotel bed . |
| 26 | Anthea was told to interview someone while bouncing up and down on a trampoline . |
| 27 | High , frescoed ceilings looked down on a marble floor worn smooth over the centuries . |
| 28 | Write it down on a bit of paper , that 's a good chap ! ’ |
| 29 | and Ken we used to write it down on a bit of paper who had what and who owed what and |
| 30 | Tell you what I 'll write it down on a bit of paper what page it 's on |