Example sentences of "[verb] in [conj] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment . |
| 2 | Later Beatrice was carried in and laid on the sofa , sobered by the experience , her breasts daubed in blood . |
| 3 | All the windows were broken and came in and landed on the people working . ’ |
| 4 | Jamie came in and sat on the couch next to my chair . |
| 5 | Sister Cooney came in and snapped on the light . |
| 6 | ‘ A monkey came in and perched on a table . |
| 7 | A third-year nurse came in and turned on the radio . |
| 8 | It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect . |
| 9 | Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby . |
| 10 | Knocker 's bored looking battered features brightened as Yanto walked in and leaned on the well used but polished bar . |
| 11 | Every kind of wonderful bird was flying in and perching on the branches of the great tree , and as soon as one landed a Minpin would climb onto its back and off they would go . |
| 12 | Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls . |
| 13 | Anne reached in and turned on the lights . |
| 14 | Water in as recommended on the pack |
| 15 | He said that unless Niki gave in and raced on the terms offered , he was going to go with Keke the following year . |
| 16 | For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract . |
| 17 | but I never pushed in and stood on the stage , look I 've done all this ! |