Example sentences of "[adj] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which places have grown to be major market towns in the central Pennines , and which river is each on ? |
| 2 | Jimmy returned with arms full of torches , switching each on and positioning them in the brackets of the huge copper boilers , or on the floor so that surreal fans of light were cast against the dirty plaster walls . |
| 3 | When two-year-old Nicola saw the bricks , she glanced briefly at her mother , then threw each on in turn onto the floor . |
| 4 | And Mike McClennan 's men have been installed as 7-2 second favourites behind Wigan , who are 4-7 on for a fourth successive title triumph . |
| 5 | As they broke out of the covert on to the open parkland the bright sun made them squint . |
| 6 | Flipping on to her back , she stared at the dark ceiling , listening to the faint night-time sounds from the creek , the far-off slap of water against the bows of the fishing-boats moored below . |
| 7 | Swindon now says it 's business as usual on and off the field ; building on the weekend 's success against Notts County ; aiming for Premier League football next year . |
| 8 | Mighty Mogul eventually justified odds of 100-30 on , coming home six lengths clear from Ambuscade in a race that took over 12 minutes to complete , almost eight minutes longer than the standard time . |
| 9 | She explains that Thru is ‘ a text that is really constructing itself and then destroying itself as it goes along … whenever I slide into a realistic scene … something happens later to destroy it , to show that these are just words on a page ’ ( 4 ) . |
| 10 | A dotted eight on . |
| 11 | ‘ What ? ’ he says accusingly , his anger at the teachers somehow getting displaced on to Marjorie . |
| 12 | ‘ I am your lover 's wife , ’ she said , and then I was glad I had so little on . |
| 13 | Before we provoke any lawsuits , let's go back to what turned Rich on to playing guitar in the first place . |
| 14 | That Pretty Polly was something out of the ordinary was confirmed as she sailed unbeaten through a nine-race campaign as a two-year-old and continued to carry all before her in 1904 , notching up facile victories in the One Thousand Guineas ( at 4–1 on ) , the Oaks ( 100–8 on ) , the Coronation Stakes ( 5–1 on ) , the Nassau Stakes ( 33–1 on ) , the St Leger ( 5–2 on ) and — just two days after the final Classic — the Park Hill Stakes ( 25–1 on ) . |
| 15 | That is only the beginning — there is then the budding on to vigorous rootstock to see if the bloom 's promise and prospects are confirmed . |
| 16 | He looked such a handicap certainty for the Tote Gold Trophy that he quite ruined the betting on the race when starting 7-4 on in a field of 10 , the smallest of the series . |
| 17 | Wigan are 7-4 on to win the First Division championship with Corals . |
| 18 | Jack Berry 's colt , backed from 6–4 to 13–8 on before finishing third to Touch Silver in the Brocklesby Stakes at Doncaster , then ruined his chance with a slow start when going under by half a length to Key To My Heart at Hamilton Park last time . |
| 19 | It is tempting to try to cram as much information as possible on to the page , a solid mass of print is unattractive to the eye and is unlikely to be read . |
| 20 | They will try to cram as many Minis as possible on to the Lake Windermere ferry and see how many consecutive journeys they can make . |
| 21 | down exhausted on to a chair . |
| 22 | After that he turned away from the bed , picked up his jacket which Irina had dropped on the floor , began to put it on , then realising he had no shirt on , dropped the jacket , found the shirt and put that on . |
| 23 | How many times had she put that on in the privacy of her room and seen the different being it presented , especially when she also donned the leghorn hat . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't stand that on ! |
| 25 | They would n't have put that on if they had n't been on drugs ! |
| 26 | ‘ Is that on then ? ’ he asked , getting excited . |
| 27 | ‘ But the British public would like to see a fight here between me and Bruno and we can get that on , if Frank wants to take such a big risk . ’ |
| 28 | What my pals wanted and I put that on to the pitch . |
| 29 | I 'll tell you this — if they had tried that on with the Liverpool team of the mid-1960s that included Ron Yeats , Ian St John , Gerry Byrne and myself the match would never have taken place . |
| 30 | It would be agreeable to report that on at last sighting the ocean I , like Vasco Núñez , promptly prayed a lot , rejoiced even more , cut down a fine tree and erected a cross , then had the expedition secretary carefully write down the names of all my companions for posterity . |