Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb base] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 2 | Tell your audience that you are going to spell out the names of a complete suit of cards and , each time you spell out a letter , you are going to take the top card and place it on the bottom . |
| 3 | If only she could shut these eyes and open them on the past and try again . |
| 4 | He was sufficiently troubled by Malcolm 's bouncer to stand frozen at the crease and take it on the helmet , but sufficiently brave to try to hook the inevitable follow-up . |
| 5 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 6 | Alyssia wished that it would somehow whip around his neck and strangle him on the spot . |
| 7 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 8 | Firstly , jump up and collect the shield , then go left , jump on the platform to your left and then the platform on your right , grab the weight , climb the right wall and throw the weight on the switch , jump/fly up onto the block on the wall , go left and cross the gap on the swing , fly up two platforms and run right , go under the guillotine , jump up the pipe and collect a weight , walk left and fall off the last platform , throw the weight on the switch , go left and use the fly to climb up the platform , take the weight and throw it on the switch above you . |
| 9 | Then , using a two pronged transfer tool , pick up just the end stitch and put it on the end needle ( 1 ) . |
| 10 | When the retention of 59 was announced , the Gazette responded : ‘ Sometime in the future , it may be possible to resurrect the old car and parade it on the Promenade as a specimen of what people in Blackpool used to enjoy travelling on ’ . |
| 11 | She took the two gifts from her handbag and set them on the table . |
| 12 | Now the Wye 's the only major river in England where anyone can bring a boat and put it on the water without any form of licence . |
| 13 | The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move . |
| 14 | They jerk from side to side and rub themselves on the plants , but there is no redness or inflammation of the gills . |
| 15 | The trick is to paint the walls the colour of the background of the paper , using a matt emulsion paint , then cut the paper into equal rectangles or squares and stick them on the walls in regularly spaced ‘ panels ’ . |
| 16 | As Maggie took the things from the tray and set them on the table she said , ‘ I know what you 're thinking : we 're slightly barmy . ’ |
| 17 | Emmie took the tray and put it on the floor . |
| 18 | Remove the stitches from the standard gauge machine with the garter bar and replace them on the chunky machine . |
| 19 | I 'll just shove it through the window and put it on the desk . |
| 20 | T. B. You had to see what they were passing through and you had to have a chit and you had to time this chit and sign it and then you went to the hut and put it on the spike . |
| 21 | 6 When the icing is dry , thread ribbon through the hole in the top of each cookie and hang them on the tree . |
| 22 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 23 | all it was was a box really , a box which you could get off a , a , a machine and dump it on the ground , erm the idea came from , from er I think dustcarts really , where , where you could sort of tip them up and , and they 'd empty , and that , that was this early thought on it er |
| 24 | She explains : ‘ I take a very deep breath before I get on the plane and then as soon as I am on board I get out all my make-up and put it on the table in front of me and spend hours putting it on . |
| 25 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 26 | Or otherwise , you buy them in blocks and screw them on the wall . |
| 27 | In the morning erm we got some bread and put it on the window and came down and we caught it and put it out again . |
| 28 | " Oopsie-doopsie , me and my big mouth , " Slater said quietly to himself as Sara took Graham 's plastic tumbler and put it on the mantelpiece beside her own glass , then led him , stunned , unprotesting , through the crowd towards the room where the music was . |
| 29 | Enlist the help of parents and get them on the side of the school by : |
| 30 | Erm in fact telephones , I mean talking back to nineteen forties and fifties , very few people had telephones , and it was n't uncommon in , in those days on fire engines , where , I know at Salisbury we did this , we took a bike and put it on the back of a fire engine , and if you were the youngest you were told , send the stock message back , or the informative message back , and find the telephone , and you pedalled and find the telephone , and , and you 'd get told off when you came back , why you were n't quicker about taking it . |