Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls .
2 They had just turned into Bacon Street when he heard a loud voice calling to him and pulled sharply on the reins .
3 Reports said a SAM 727 had just touched down at El Dorado international airport when an Air France Boeing 747 came roaring over it and landed ahead on the same runway .
4 He crashed into a table , somersaulted over it and landed heavily on the carpet .
5 Constance was not ready for it and rolled away on the grass .
6 Seeing an upright chair stationed between the windows , she made a lunge for it and collapsed sideways on the rush seat to lean , exhausted , against the cold wall .
7 They have to explain that although they 're priests they 're really not credulous nitwits , and then they feel they have to go further and they end up writing books about it and yapping away on the television . ’
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