Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] on [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 2 | Will you do me one to take home with me and put on the wall ? ’ |
| 3 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 4 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 5 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 6 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 7 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 8 | Whatever surfaces are provided , the fish often ignore them and spawn on the side of the tank . |
| 9 | Then they stick the needle in you and pull on the blood and it 's disgusting ! |
| 10 | I ask you , hundreds of miles from bloody anywhere and the Coke reps have been there before you and shat on the landscape . |
| 11 | Buy something and get on the escalator . |
| 12 | Emecheta followed its success with Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price but when her publishers , Allison and Busby , went broke , she decided to publish the hardbacks herself and sell on the paperback rights . |
| 13 | Yet the record of Charles 's actions demonstrates the very opposite : his determined pursuit of his own right to a kingdom in Francia set him and Lothar on a collision course . |
| 14 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 15 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |
| 16 | Kate looked away from him and concentrated on the ormolu clock on the mantelpiece , its ticking the only other sound in the room . |
| 17 | Uncontrollable sobs broke from her and echoed on the night . |
| 18 | Sapped of all energy , Belinda fell listlessly through the door , let it drift shut behind her and slumped on the bed , utterly confused about what had just happened . |
| 19 | He pulled away from her and sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 20 | I moved towards her and sat on the bed and put an arm round her . |
| 21 | Cal followed her and sat on the floor . |
| 22 | ‘ There 's a cream car in the lane , ’ she explained , ‘ and the driver is standing beside it and leaning on the horn . ’ |
| 23 | He says , he 's filled the wheelie bin and it 's go he 's been in it and jumped on the top , so course his track suit is |
| 24 | ( a ) If the diagnostic occurs rarely then ignore it and rely on the averaging . |
| 25 | I had already gathered from the groom that Sir John had not left so , when I came to a small copse of trees , I took my horse deep inside , hobbled it and sat on a boulder . |
| 26 | You could let a bit of it and live on the rent . ’ |
| 27 | Parker licked at it and stuck on a bit of brown paper . |
| 28 | Or he could at least have appeared to accept it and put on a show : he was already capable enough of that . |
| 29 | IN DARLINGTON there is a move to get people thinking for themselves and acting on the idea instead of allowing others to think for them . |
| 30 | to comment on the script of the Video prepared by us and agree on a shooting script with the us ; |