Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 2 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 3 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 4 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 5 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 6 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 7 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 8 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 9 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 10 | We will select a winner , publish the card in the paper , and send it on to the national finals . |
| 11 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 12 | Dampen the edge of the buckram , bring over the seam allowance of the band and press it on to the dampened edge , notching out excess fabric on inward curves . |
| 13 | Cut out or draw a picture of Freda and glue it on to the bookmark . |
| 14 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 15 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |
| 16 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 17 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 18 | He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget . |
| 19 | Pertamina head office was especially active during the Flores emergency , acting mainly as central co-ordinator for gifts of money and clothing , and passing everything on to the disaster relief co-ordinators . |
| 20 | Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ . |
| 21 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 22 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |
| 23 | ‘ I know , ’ she replied and dropped it on to the couchette . |
| 24 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
| 25 | I remember she crouched down and lifted me on to the table . |
| 26 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 27 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 28 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 29 | The shop-keeper nodded with eventual understanding , cut off a huge bunch of bright green grapes and threw them on to the scales . |
| 30 | On an impulse , he removed his cap and threw it on to the back seat . |