Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [adv] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As half-time approached and with the score at 0–0 , Reg and I shuffled nervously on the bench , but the duck was about to be broken . |
| 2 | I recall that my right hon. Friend and I campaigned together on the same side in favour of a ’ yes ’ vote in the 1975 referendum on whether Britain should remain in the European Community . |
| 3 | and I said then on the , on the Saturday his leg , his wound , he come out of intensive care on the Wednesday and on the Saturday his , his dressing had n't been changed on his leg and it reeked and I said can we actually please have a clean dressing for my dad 's leg , even if I 've got to put the bugger on myself , that was at quarter past eight |
| 4 | That district authority and I agree entirely on the future of local government . |
| 5 | The papers are all subjected to these for several Conferences before they 're voted on and we lay great emphasis on achieving consensus on any motion , and I think today on the Palestine/Israel debate , which is obviously a very contentious issue , it went through in about half an hour , very calmly , very peacefully , because a lot of hard work had been done . |
| 6 | Evening , music , a drink , and someone coming home on the six-eighteen . |
| 7 | Only her resolve not to irritate him prevented her from letting the scissors stray towards his temptingly close ears , and she swallowed hard on the furious retort which jumped to her lips . |
| 8 | Blanche 's eyes widened and she sat forward on the kitchen chair . |
| 9 | Quite deliberately , she summoned the memory of the anguish of six years ago , the job she loved summarily barred to her and her Communications course sacrificed ; and she dwelt especially on the dilemma that had torn at her then , the agonising conflict between her obstinate determination to pursue an uninterrupted career in radio at a time when there were no positions to be had in Johannesburg but possibilities in Durban , and a heart-wrenching reluctance to leave her parents alone when advanced emphysema was shortening her father 's life so cruelly . |
| 10 | And then her legs gently folded and she subsided slowly on the step , ungainly as a marionette . |
| 11 | We remember the pain and suffering of millions who have died throughout the ‘ Third World ’ , fighting for the most basic of human rights , and we reflect shamefully on the fact that it is only when the US and their allies face the prospect of their own children dying that this war is truly acknowledged . |
| 12 | The latter , as the title suggests , deals solely with taxation , and we concentrate here on the Musgrave study , which covers both taxes and public spending . |
| 13 | She radiated warmth and we chatted easily on the ride back to the flat , then sat shoeless on the floor in front of the gas-fire , swapping husband humour and sipping coffee . |
| 14 | The fund raising we did covers our cost and we rely heavily on the goodwill of parents and friends to provide transport every Sunday . |
| 15 | The playgroup is a non-profit making organisation , and we rely heavily on the fees paid for children to attend and on fundraising . |
| 16 | It is difficult to draw a line between a company car that is a pure perk and one used constantly on the job by a salesman or service engineer . |
| 17 | They were accused of attempting to bribe opponents into losing so their chairman would win an election the following day ; illegal signing-on payments were made ; they were accused of ‘ trafficking in players ’ ; their books never tallied , and they seemed constantly on the verge of bankruptcy and relegation . |
| 18 | The men had won their prestige from work , from scholarship , in the public arena ; and they sat outside on the pavement benches , publicly debating politics , theology , and history . |
| 19 | And they sat there on the computers and the woman said right everybody out , she 's an old battleaxe ! |
| 20 | He put out his arms and caught her and held her , and they stood there on the gravel path in the grounds of Hilderbridge General Hospital , embraced as if they had long been lovers and had known each other with profound emotion and physical joy and had been parted only to meet again now , by chance , so felicitously . |
| 21 | The older girl cried ‘ Do n't let them take me , Mummy , ’ and they stood together on the doorstep for several minutes , until a policeman gently reminded Mrs B that her daughter was getting cold in the dreary February morning . |
| 22 | One patient had identified milk as causing symptoms but his lactose tolerance test was positive and he remains well on a lactose free diet . |
| 23 | Of course , the Rolls-Royce limousine was his , and he rapped sharply on the window to waken the sleeping chauffeur . |
| 24 | His geography was a mixture of fact and fantasy and he relied more on the Bible than on maps or mathematics . |
| 25 | he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there . |
| 26 | Pimpernel , it was true , was looking less than his usual yappy self-a smoky smell hung around him , and he lay gloomily on the bed , a chastened dog . |
| 27 | eleven forty six , he 's got them inside , I think I told you about this did n't I ? , and I was inside helping them out like , he was outside , he did n't have his gas mask , we were doing the things , like M B C stuff , and I 'm inside and he said right you will each go to a post , where inside this tent , each to go to er , erm , cos there was six people inside and like there was six posts , he said you each got to a post inside the tent and on the you will pick up the tent , and I new what was coming , done it before sort of thing and erm , were all in M B C stuff cos there 's still lots of gas , but there was n't for very long , and he said right on the you will , er he just said , we picked it up right , were all fucking all fucking I said go on then , |
| 28 | He was concentrating on demolishing the last of the lime and liquorice sweets he had brought with him in his haversack from Partick , and he trod purposefully on the wet red leaves with his hiking-boots as he strode along . |
| 29 | Iida 's aircraft was holed by Finn and other gunners and he crashed deliberately on a road near the officer 's quarters , one of the undercarriage wheels bounced through a house and the engine of the aircraft landed a ¼ mile away . |
| 30 | It is virtually certain that Article 86 gives rise to a cause of action in English law at the suit of a person damnified by its contravention and it does so on the basis of an action for breach of statutory duty so that the court may award damages . |