Example sentences of "and on an " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised that she still had fifteen minutes before the meeting was due to start and on an impulse she rang Paul . |
| 2 | Ingrid believes it was fate that enabled her to work in Orkney , near her family , with her friends , and on an island she loves . |
| 3 | Most of these new rich were only one step removed from village life , and to have a brand new ‘ cottage style ’ house , and on an enormous scale , was for them extremely appealing . |
| 4 | A car approached , and on an impulse I thumbed a lift . |
| 5 | If the school is already well on the way to successful marketing then relationships with parents as a group and on an individual basis will be or good quality and it will be fairly straightforward to contact people directly to ask them to undertake specific responsibilities . |
| 6 | He had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of London and Paris , squandering the Carew fortune in gaming saloons and on an army of mistresses . |
| 7 | Mr. Barron works as a quantity surveyor , having been educated at Sandbach School and on an RAF Flying Scholarship . |
| 8 | The power of the Russian monarchy rested on a centuries-old tradition , a large nobility , an officer class and a Cossack caste , and on an extensive bureaucracy ( not to mention the police and gendarmerie ) . |
| 9 | Bunce is now the established outside centre and on an Australian tour the top players tend to get the big weekend games , and the new chums like Ellis play the easier mid-week affairs . |
| 10 | But the pride of Yorkshire sit just three points ahead of their Selhurst Park conquerors and on an accelerating downward spiral . |
| 11 | From then on the family would continue to take lodgers to help supplement its income , but very much on an ad hoc basis and on an altogether more modest scale . |
| 12 | All key figures were live — up to the instant the screen was called — and available in total and on an office by office basis . |
| 13 | Squeeze them together and on an outward breath let them go . |
| 14 | Squeeze them together again and on an outward breath let them go again . |
| 15 | Scrunch them up towards your ears and on an outward breath let them go . |
| 16 | Screw your eyes up tight and on an outward breath relax . |
| 17 | Screw your nose up tight and on an outward breath relax . |
| 18 | During a lull my thoughts turned to Ensign Smith and the possibility that he might still be alive , and on an impulse I dialled the Navy Department . |
| 19 | She can listen to TV tunes once and play them on a piano with one hand and on an accordion with the other . |
| 20 | There are no problems for modern cars and on an open hillside above the treeline , a roadside parking space has been provided where they can foregather and let their occupants feast on a superlative view of the head of Loch Duich and the Five Sisters . |
| 21 | Jarvis saw them get into the next car and on an impulse he jumped up and followed them . |
| 22 | When the Unionist won the by-election at Newport in 1922 , on working-class votes and on an anti-coalition platform , his agent explained that " the working classes had never understood the Coalition . |
| 23 | Below us , the pale grey shape of a quartering male hen harrier flew back and forth over reed beds until it spied prey — and on an instant dropped to the ground . |
| 24 | It emerged that a video camera had been trained on part of the premises of the night club and on an area where an incident preceding the arrival of the police and part of the incident said to be the violent disorder had taken place . |
| 25 | Lyn put a cloth on a tray and laid it and on an impulse picked a small blue iris and put it in a vase to go on the tray as well . |
| 26 | She clutched a black shawl above a patched and shabby skirt , her eyes sunken in her gaunt face , and on an impulse he put half a crown in her hand and hurried away . |
| 27 | A problem we commonly encounter at Joan Allen 's is one where batteries read good on the detector and on an unloaded test . |
| 28 | ( 8 ) ) , and on an appeal being taken , the suspension remains ineffective until the appeal is finally determined or abandoned ( subs . |
| 29 | In Casati it was held that the scope of that restriction might vary in time and depended on an assessment of the requirements of the Common Market and on an appraisal of both the advantages and risks which liberalization might entail . |
| 30 | Kenchester is strategically located in the valley of the River Wye , close to the Iron-Age hillfort of Credenhill , and on an important east-west route heading towards the early military bases at Clifford and Clyro . |