Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had two other wins that year , at Zandvoort and Monza , but his car let him down on other occasions when his excellent driving had put him in a race-winning situation . |
| 2 | The lawyer turned it over on its back and saw the face of Edward Hyde . |
| 3 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 4 | Philip did n't believe what Lee had said about his stepdad letting him out on purpose , wanting him to get killed . |
| 5 | ‘ Has Merymose brought you in on his investigation ? ’ |
| 6 | Experience will show you how to readjust your programme to get yourself back on the right track . |
| 7 | These days people bring hamsters and terrapins and rabbits and dogs , but nobody quite has the nerve to pin them down on a slab and cut their throats . |
| 8 | Long periods of enforced solitude as a semi-invalid threw him back on the resources of his own imagination , and after reading Hindoo Holiday , by J. R. Ackerley [ q.v. ] , |
| 9 | And Merson revealed : ‘ The boss called me in on Monday and told me that it would be best if I played in the reserves on Tuesday rather than travel with the squad to Blackburn . |
| 10 | The princess puts one over on Charles in our fun phone-in |
| 11 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 12 | When she had finished , he motioned Tam forward first because he was the oldest , and the twelve-year-old boy rushed eagerly across the room to fling himself down on the altar mat . " |
| 13 | The military blocked everyone in on campus and the police announced that they could shoot you without asking questions . |
| 14 | ‘ She 'll be safe enough , but I 've a feeling it will be a long job to get her back on an even keel . |
| 15 | One minute to go and the Director wishes everyone down on the floor good luck , and in time-honoured tradition Verity Lambert leans forward and wishes the Director good luck . |
| 16 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 17 | She is usually working on a series of paintings and says , ‘ One picture sets you off on a road , and I have to make perhaps six paintings before I come to a fork , onto another road ’ . |
| 18 | In a desire to get something down on paper quickly the student is underestimating the power and importance of the introduction . |
| 19 | Chelmsford 's confidence was dented , a missing a chance to go one up on the 12th and then losing the next two holes as hope of taking the trophy back to the Widford clubhouse evaporated . |
| 20 | Comrades struggled to get to grips with Bangor 's cavalier attacking play but they had a chance to pull one back on 31 minutes , Paul McGurnaghan threading the ball through the defence only for Davy Armstrong to screw his shot past the post . |
| 21 | In the later seventeenth century a French duke turned it down on the grounds that his father , by holding it , had accumulated debts of 200,000 livres . |
| 22 | ‘ It 'll give me a chance to fill you in on the situation , ’ he 'd told her . |
| 23 | To master something of the knowledge to put them down on paper not only requires some study and drawing skills , but I believe a sense of rhythm as well . |
| 24 | They vied with each other to fill me in on the gruesome details . |
| 25 | The excitement was very high , and the pressure of the other chimpanzees in the tree forced him down on the ground , where he was greeted by the screaming females . |
| 26 | They overpowered him and , while the rest held him down on the pavement , one of them put the razor in the corner of Joyce 's mouth and slit his cheek backwards beyond the ear . |
| 27 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 28 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 29 | I expected no different when his Lordship sent me out on the morning of the 19th . |
| 30 | Payne says the advantage of using emulation over binary-to-binary translation is that ISVs do not have to tinker with their applications one iota to get them up on PowerPC , they just run , although some performance is lost . |