Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hunting shark closing in for the kill homes in on the body electricity given off by its victim . |
| 2 | For the next fourteen days I spent all the daylight hours either on the forest road , on which no-one but myself ever set foot , or in the jungle , and only twice during that period did I get near the tigress . |
| 3 | With great skill he managed to get the overladen aircraft down on the desert , but at dawn they discovered German traffic on a nearby road . |
| 4 | He played numerous cameo roles both on the large and the small screen : in The Charge of the Light Brigade and Hamlet for the cinema and in Hess , Disraeli and Suez for television . |
| 5 | Stuart Sorbie put the Gayfield side ahead on the hour but Mike Geraghty equalised two minutes later . |
| 6 | One slight annoyance came when I tried to procure the sound of a valve amp just on the edge of distortion , like an AC30 or a Vibroverb just going into mild overload . |
| 7 | The alley 's dead end glowed red in the wash of its brake lights , long shadows being thrown by the garbage hoppers over on the far side , and the sound of the cab 's turning engine had a hard edge in the chill night air . |
| 8 | According to Marslen-Wilson and Welsh , a set of potential word candidates ( the ‘ cohort ’ ) is activated during the earliest phases of the word recognition process solely on the basis of bottom-up sensory information . |
| 9 | Joy was a Saturday morning out on the town . |
| 10 | Lyndon-James says design is well advanced on a 4-megabit chip — the size of the largest DRAM chip currently on the market — and there are plans for 16-megabit chip . |
| 11 | Only the sailing types appreciated the problems of keeping the same bit of distant coast line ahead on the same point of sailing and in the same position relative to the other boats . |
| 12 | And , an update on that fifteen car pile up on the M-forty in Oxfordshire . |
| 13 | The second commitment from the trust states that it will ’ Complete the agreed building works to bring all Maternity and Gynaecology services together on the same site as Intensive Care for newborn babies and the Special Care Baby Unit at Basildon Hospital . ’ |
| 14 | Liverpool , meanwhile , may have a luxury of goalkeeping talent to draw upon , with Mike Hooper and David James also on the books , but their attacking options could be cut to the bone next week . |
| 15 | With the Environmental Protection Act just on the statute book , no company can afford to ignore MPs ' views . |
| 16 | Semi-automatic completes the current column and then pauses with the text icon still on the screen while manual completes the column and stops . |
| 17 | The Labour Party 's housing policy emphasized the development of council estates generally on the edge of cities or within the various new towns where land was much cheaper . |
| 18 | From there Laughton progressed to two more familiar roles , Poirot and Pickwick , before scoring another big success as the Chicago gangster loosely modelled on Al Capone in On the Spot ( 1930 ) by Edgar Wallace [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | Richard put over , put a lot of beams and Paul at the weekend put an immense amount of his household gear up on the roof in the garage . |
| 20 | Your first sight of Reg Varney in On The Buses . |
| 21 | A wee bit of cotton wool just on the outside . |
| 22 | When my right hon. Friend goes to Barrow later in the week , will he congratulate Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. and its work force there on the excellent job that they have done in constructing the vessels to specification and to schedule ? |
| 23 | Other aspects of the concern to strengthen the democratic side of the state machine bear especially on the position of the civil service , the Prime Minister , and the House of Commons . |
| 24 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
| 25 | And there are moments when a Karajan-like suavity makes one long for Monteux 's fresher detailing ( Daphnis 's ‘ Danse légère ’ , for instance ) — Karajan is recalled too in this very measured Boléro — and I must finally stress that to appreciate the enormous range of dynamics on offer you will need state-of- the-art equipment , and a listening room preferably on the moon . |
| 26 | HP PerfRX , a system performance monitoring tool is now available for OpenView , priced at £5,000 , and HP is also putting its backup and print management applications up on the environment . |
| 27 | EXPLORER Sir Ranulph Fiennes was within 200 miles of the South Pole yesterday on the 50th day of a 2,200-mile trek for charity . |
| 28 | And the scope of that work I had enrolled all the the lady workers both on the confectionery side and the dispatch side and that made it what you would term as a closed shop . |
| 29 | When Angel One had reported back to Dragon Control early on the day following the destruction of his Bethlehem House base , the Controller had been unable to keep the malicious satisfaction out of his voice when he had berated him for his ignominious failure , as he put it , in allowing his entire organisation to be destroyed by unforeseen enemy action . |
| 30 | Boro will be unchanged tonight , with Jon Gittens and Alan Moore again on the substitutes ' bench . |