Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pers pn] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not our questions about the problem of God , but God 's call and invitation to us determined the direction of his thought and shaped his writing ; and it was this basic orientation that led him on to the restatement of christological and trinitarian dogma as the foundation and horizon of theology itself . |
| 2 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 3 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 4 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 5 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 6 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 7 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 8 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 9 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 10 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 11 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 12 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 13 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |
| 14 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied and dropped it on to the couchette . |
| 15 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 16 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 17 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 18 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 19 | On an impulse , he removed his cap and threw it on to the back seat . |
| 20 | Then I took the oldest of the wasp cadavers from its little tray and tipped it on to the white pile of granules . |
| 21 | Samson Orry gripped Jess round her narrow waist and swung her on to the tavern counter . |
| 22 | ‘ Nearly every year , ’ Joseph recalled , ‘ the agent came over from Lapwai and ordered us on to the reservation . |
| 23 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 24 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 25 | The Austrian officials were quite another matter ; middle-aged , self-confident , well dressed and courteous , they enquired how long I intended to stay , glanced in the boot , and waved me on with the hope that I would enjoy my stay . |
| 26 | She peeled off the pants , and tossed them on to the chair . |
| 27 | Then , before she could struggle , before she could even unravel her wildly mixed reactions , Guy broke the kiss and , with one smooth movement , picked her up and tossed her on to the bed . |
| 28 | Senga pulled off her bonnet , and tossed it on to the chair beside the fire . |
| 29 | With the rough timbers pushed wide I got behind the bullock and sent him on to the opening . |
| 30 | Pulling the centre-half back left a gap in midfield which needed a link man to pick up passes from defence and lay them on for the forwards . |