Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But what goes on on the terraces seems to be very simple and almost harmless compared with that Rugby Club of yours . ’ |
| 2 | Everyone claps a little and Peter sits down on the drum stool . |
| 3 | When I stick my head round the door and tell Rachel I have to go out again , she sits down on the bed without a word . |
| 4 | John sits down on the bed and recites a mantra under his breath . |
| 5 | When his mind 's on fisticuffs he sits in on the training sessions there . |
| 6 | The difference between them is that the first regress can only be stopped by certain ( = infallible ) beliefs , while the second insists merely on the existence of beliefs which are non-inferentially justified . |
| 7 | One that goes down on the floor ! |
| 8 | The frame fits nicely on the top of the vat over the area not covered by the filter . |
| 9 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 10 | Paddy Cosgrove , councillor and barrister , in candidates ' pinstripes , sits tensely on the edge of his plastic chair . |
| 11 | The character of a scent develops slowly on the skin as it notes come into play . |
| 12 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 13 | Derived from the Greek words phyllon ( leaf ) and xeros ( dry ) , the phylloxera lives only on the vine and can not survive on any other host . |
| 14 | On a seat beneath General Wolfe 's statue , which looks down on the river and is still scarred by the bombs of a war later than the one in which he died , Coffin rested for a while . |
| 15 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 16 | Mortars are shorter , heavier weapons than cannons , designed to lob an explosive shell high into the air so that it drops down on the target from the sky . |
| 17 | Jen grabs for the bottle and it drops down on the grass and rolls away , glug , gurgle . |
| 18 | , stands mischievously on the terrace walk , which looks over Ickworth park . |
| 19 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 20 | The blame lies squarely on the shoulders of successive Home Secretaries , carrying out the policies of what were then neo-fascist Conservative governments . |
| 21 | One is led to conclude from all this that despite some tactical ‘ victories ’ here and there , the British point of view with respect to policy in the EEC has not on the whole prevailed , any more than has its influence over the development of the institutional framework of the Community . |
| 22 | It lies exactly on the Equator near Lake Victoria among the Luo people and in the Diocese of Kisumu . |
| 23 | Xerox Corp has introduced LiveBoard , a five-foot wide electronic blackboard — Americans call it a chalkboard : the LiveBoard , which sells for $49,500 , uses a wireless pen that writes directly on the surface , creating an electronic document that can be shared through ordinary telephone lines for simultaneous viewing and editing from remote locations ; it includes a 67 ’ interactive surface , 80486 processor and software that enables users to edit , colour , annotate , erase , save , retrieve and print whatever they have drawn on the LiveBoard . |
| 24 | It all starts off on the Friday evening of the Spring Bank Holiday with the President 's dinner , which for the centenary is being held in a marquee to cater for the huge numbers who wish to attend . |
| 25 | A layer of photosynthetic bacteria lives permanently on the boundary between brackish and highly saline water . |
| 26 | At either end of the beach , where the sea beats directly on the face of the cliffs , the crabs have a harder time of it . |
| 27 | Even now if I look at a video the hair still stands up on the back of the neck , and you get that tingle on the spine . |
| 28 | ‘ Doc Hollywood ’ just about cruises past on the amiability of the cast . |
| 29 | One of the first questions you get asked of anybody when they first come on a training course here , er , certainly a sort of foundation course , is that somebody writes up on the board there T N T , and says what does that stand for ? |
| 30 | Spurs , Chaps and a Stetson are all she needs out on the range . |