Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The completion of this form does not exempt the councillor from his duty to refrain from speaking or voting on the matter in which he has an interest . |
| 2 | Even now I 'm struggling to stop myself going for a jaunt around the room though I know this will inevitably lead to me lying on my bed or sitting on the floor in a mesmerised , trancelike way and staring into nothingness as if stoned . |
| 3 | Rain is hard on your hands during ferreting , nets become unmanageable and less effective and it is n't possible either to kneel or lie on the ground in any comfort . |
| 4 | I go and sit on the bench in front of the Christmas tree and stare at it . |
| 5 | The legislative plans that I have announced today are designed to consolidate and build on the improvement in industrial relations which we have achieved over the last 12 years . |
| 6 | Then allow your goal or Dream to take on a symbolic form , and appear on the grass in front of you . |
| 7 | Roll 50g/2oz thinly sliced rare beef or pastrami into cones and place on the bread in a fan shape . |
| 8 | She groaned and threshed on the bed in an anguish of pleasure , redness behind her eyes , her ears singing , sea in a shell . |
| 9 | In winter it grew dark and fed on the sap in trees , or the blood of animals . |
| 10 | I shower and lie on the bed in the dark . |
| 11 | The system was developed over a period of about 10 years and arrived on the market in three stages . |
| 12 | As we watched , his wig fell forward over his nose and landed on the table in front of him . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | They converged beneath the priests barely ten feet from us and settled on the bottom in a relaxed Stygian knot . |
| 15 | However , in July 1906 , together with Nos. 36–45 , they were removed from service in Croydon , taken and dumped on the site in Aurelia Road , off Mitcham Road . |
| 16 | If Belinda had been a more devious soul , she might have thought to suggest that Deana 's harping on the subject of Dr Russell spoke rather strongly of a crush on her side as well , but Belinda was n't devious , so she simply blushed even more and found on the desk in front of her a diabetic patient 's chart that suddenly needed her urgent attention . |
| 17 | He arrived with Archbishop Wallenstein , after having been trained in Rome and worked on the palace in 1676 . |
| 18 | However , she put such thoughts aside for the moment and concentrated on the task in hand . |
| 19 | He joined the Durham force in 1956 and started on the beat in Darlington before being promoted through the ranks to reach his present status in 1989 . |
| 20 | I gave up work so I could practise singing and playing , and went on the dole in England . |
| 21 | They You used to go and walk on the face in a morning an and you 'd rap on the face with your pick and buggers are green , ther they 're not ripe yet . |
| 22 | ‘ When the weather gets warmer she will be able to go and practise on the piano in the home of the Misses Montague — we will let her know when this is possible . ’ |
| 23 | This distracting racket pitched in every time I came out of a corner and put on the power in the Formula First single-seat racing car I was driving . |
| 24 | The fulling mill had a large wheel , turned by the water power , which activated wooden hammers , rising and falling on the cloth in soapy water . |
| 25 | 5 Dip the angelica and almonds into the jug of jelly and arrange on the jelly in the mould . |
| 26 | Go and collapse on the sofa in there . |
| 27 | But for the activists in the Party and its affiliates , the integratory and mobilizing functions of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ were not confined to support for current attainments , but rested on the incorporation in Hitler of the ‘ idea ’ of Nazism itself , determining future utopias to be won as well as past glories achieved . |