Example sentences of "and [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 2 | They manhandled Mr Reagan to the side of the stage and pounced on his attacker , forcing him over the podium to check him for any possible weapons before dragging him away . |
| 3 | Nina came in soon after , flapping her arms like pterodactyl wings , and pounced on a girl he had never seen before . |
| 4 | The lights went on ; we leapt up and pounced on them , adding our howls of ingrate triumph to the general confusion — ending the happy myth not with a whimper but a bang , while Addy , the fellow-conspirator , leant against the wall and laughed herself to helplessness … |
| 5 | Scuffles broke out everywhere as our officers came out of hiding and pounced on six members of the gang who bolted into the woods and sand dunes around the bay before being rounded up with the assistance of police dogs . |
| 6 | It squeaked and jingled on its hinges as they swung it behind them . |
| 7 | ‘ High interest rates … have dampened consumer expenditure and impacted on retail spending , ’ says the chairman , Geoffrey Maitland Smith . |
| 8 | Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed . |
| 9 | Fifteen years ago Ally MacLeod said we 'd bring home medals from Argentina and reneged on his promise spectacularly . |
| 10 | After that , the days were marked by the offerings they took and laid on the stone , more cigarettes until their father began to suspect Mrs Turner who cleaned the house , fruit from the garden , a punnet of redcurrants which disappeared from the small basket . |
| 11 | For a few brief moments he reared and plunged on the bed , grunting like an animal , until his lust emptied itself into her . |
| 12 | Not made of coloured crêpe paper , faded , dusty and crinkled on bent wire stems like Mrs Parvis had in her parlour . |
| 13 | DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas . |
| 14 | This year he returned in April , in peak form , and succeeded on the climb after seven days of attempts spread over two weeks . |
| 15 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 16 | We discussed primary intervention ( aimed at prevention of further problems ) and agreed on a different method of drying clothes to prevent a similar accident happening again . |
| 17 | After the World Cup they rose to the occasion and agreed on proposals which , when adopted next year , will fundamentally change the structure of the game . |
| 18 | We talked about the implications of the job and agreed on a salary , and I became a member of the bank . |
| 19 | This is a very important consideration , for , as we shall see shortly in the discussion of the marketing mix , there are certain key issues , such as pricing , which have to be considered and agreed on a shared basis . |
| 20 | The new Cabinet held its first session on June 28 , and agreed on proposals to restructure the government , in particular by merging a number of specialized ministries into a Ministry of Economy . |
| 21 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 22 | Economic Ministers of the six-member Association of South-East Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) met in Kuala Lumpur , Malaysia , on Oct. 7-8 and agreed on proposals for economic co-operation arrangements , to be submitted to the ASEAN summit meeting scheduled for late January 1992 in Singapore . |
| 23 | Following a conference on the Tuareg rebellion in December [ see p. 38665 ] , members of the government and the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad , representing the Tuaregs , met on Jan. 22-24 in Algiers and agreed on a truce , an exchange of prisoners and the continuation of negotiations . |
| 24 | The Ministers of Defence of the NATO countries and of the former member States of the Warsaw Pact , including most of the republics of the former Soviet Union , met in Brussels on April 1 and agreed on a wide-ranging programme of co-operation on military and security matters . |
| 25 | Delegates adopted a bill of human rights and agreed on self-determination for Kurdistan within the Iraqi state . |
| 26 | Representatives of the Czech and Slovak television and radio services met in Bratislava on Aug. 5 and agreed on joint back-up and operations of television and radio coverage in both republics . |
| 27 | Officials of Czech coalition parties met in Prague on Oct. 13 and agreed on major points of their republic 's future constitution . |
| 28 | A study by the Edinburgh-based economic consultancy , Pieda , has shown that if the duty rate per degree of alcohol was raised on wine and lowered on whisky ( and other spirits ) , the standard rate for all alcoholic drinks that would maintain the total tax take would be nearer the wine rate than the spirits rate as wine ( and beer ) account for 76 per cent of all consumer expenditure on alcoholic drinks . |
| 29 | The plane had dipped wildly down on its left wing and skidded on the runway with only one wheel in contact with the ground . |
| 30 | Well I looked at that and I thought I thought well I 'm , I 'm sure it 's quarter to and checked on mine . |