Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 2 | Zach and George dragged the case up to the bedroom and laid it on one side . |
| 3 | An individual who bought the FT All Share Index at 31 March 1982 and sold it on 31 August 1989 would have suffered tax ( at 40% and ignoring the annual exemption ) of 24.2% of the proceeds . |
| 4 | But Joffre thought Lanrezac lacked fighting spirit and dismissed him on 3 September . |
| 5 | Then split the cards face down into three different piles and take a card from the middle pile and place it on one side of the outside piles . |
| 6 | and put them on one side . |
| 7 | I think she should mentally wrap him in a parcel , tie it tight with string and put it on one side for the moment . |
| 8 | Lee lifted herself a little towards her goddess and rested herself on one elbow , looking up like a child , expectant . |
| 9 | Stephanie picked Mary up — Mary liked to be picked up — and perched her on one hip as she walked from bed to bed . |
| 10 | First crack the whole code and keep it on one side . |
| 11 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 12 | By eight-thirty , after putting the army to rights , and warming ourselves on one cup of tea after another , we were too cold to stay up . |
| 13 | Quick as a flash , Baba Yaga 's daughter turned her visitor into a needle , stuck her into the birch-broom , and set her on one side . |