Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [pron] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 2 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 3 | On Dec. 16 the Netherlands authorities expelled 43 Russian Jews and put them on an aeroplane to Israel after their applications for asylum were turned down ; a further nine were expelled on Dec. 23 . |
| 4 | If only she could shut these eyes and open them on the past and try again . |
| 5 | The man took off his spectacles and wiped them on a snowy white handkerchief . |
| 6 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 7 | Jelinek trained his system on a corpus of 1,500,000 words and tested it on a test corpus of 300,000 . |
| 8 | She laid her hands on Peter 's shoulders and kissed him on the cheek . |
| 9 | The Gamegear reflects this desire , allowing youngsters to play their favourite games at home but also to take them away from their homes and enjoy them on the move . |
| 10 | She stretched Thérèse on the rack until her bones cracked , tore off her breasts with red-hot pincers , then flogged her with twigs and broke her on the wheel . |
| 11 | The trick is to paint the walls the colour of the background of the paper , using a matt emulsion paint , then cut the paper into equal rectangles or squares and stick them on the walls in regularly spaced ‘ panels ’ . |
| 12 | So we got a pair of football boots and some books and wedged them on the door , thinking that she 'd naturally see them . |
| 13 | He and Mr Fletcher sat at the table and Willie took one of the mugs and perched himself on the stool in front of the range . |
| 14 | He took limes from his pyjama pockets and left them on the blankets . |
| 15 | When I arrived on tie scene there appeared to be hundreds of people there , but a civilian — the works and bricks engineer seemed — to be the boss , and even the station commander was happily taking orders from him about filling sandbags and placing them on the Bund to strengthen it against the rising tide . |
| 16 | ‘ You do n't wash your feet and put them on the dirty floor , do you ? ’ he asked as he got ready for the guests who would soothe the painful passage towards the critics . |
| 17 | Whitlock sprung to his feet and caught him on the side of the head with a stinging haymaker then followed up with two brutal body punches that dropped him to his knees . |
| 18 | Florence Ames took off her old shoes and left them on the step . |
| 19 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 20 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |
| 21 | Or otherwise , you buy them in blocks and screw them on the wall . |
| 22 | I bought some Liquorice Perfections after my pie , beans and chips and sucked them on the bus to Thurso . |
| 23 | She scowled at her sandals and scuffed them on the gravel . |
| 24 | Enlist the help of parents and get them on the side of the school by : |
| 25 | He was interested in the concept of the plays and thought he would like to bring them up to date , use original scripts and perform them on the move . |
| 26 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 27 | The flight was successfully undertaken to the area of Kerkenah Island , where two 22X Squadron Sunderlands met the Hurricanes and led them on the last leg to the island . |
| 28 | In the past a Welsh dealer had brought ponies and kept them on the moors at Hartshead to fatten them up for a few weeks prior to the fair , and Mr Rawson had often helped to drive them from there to Lee Gap . |
| 29 | He rolled it between two fingers and tapped it on a thumbnail and generally fondled it as I knew he would for a good five minutes before lighting it . |
| 30 | Silently he took the notebook from her nerveless fingers and dropped it on the floor . |