Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of these have since been taken on by the wider society and are to be found in all its corners influencing even those who would now deny them any real significance and tend to look back on the decade as only times of silliness and self-indulgence . |
| 2 | LHX lacks instant appeal and involves swotting up on the options available . |
| 3 | Still , people often do it without thinking , especially in a fight when everyone falls over and starts rolling about on the ground . |
| 4 | When the sun slides across the sky from right to left and the new moon faces the wrong way you are ready to bet the stripes of the rainbow are inside out , yet curiously unprepared to find the Plough fallen from its high point in the heavens and collapsed face down on the night horizon . |
| 5 | The name of the game , ‘ Grandmother 's Footsteps ’ is already a hint : the young and fit creeping up on the old , the halt and the lame . |
| 6 | The young squire sitting against the buttress , keeled slowly over and sprawled face down on the pavers . |
| 7 | Suddenly , Katrina dropped to her knees and began scrabbling around on the floor . |
| 8 | Soon genuine celebrities descended from on high and began showing up on the show . |
| 9 | Go left , down , right , then fall down , push the crate onto the button and go up on the lift , then left along the lower platform , push the crate left onto the switch , fall down , then go up on the lift , collect the speaker , fall down , go right and up on the lift , go left along the top platform , go up and left , go up on the lift , and continue going up on the platforms . |
| 10 | She dropped down and started groping round on the floor as the bus sped down the long hill into town . |
| 11 | So the more frozen in horror a human being is , the more likely the cat is to leap up and try to settle down on the static lap . |
| 12 | He sought resolve and found a little and went to lie down on the bed to read a paperback of Anna Karenina , which he had always fancied because it had a scene on a railway platform . |
| 13 | The Colchester corporation re-elected him in 1628 , but he was unseated on the protests of the freemen , and forced to fall back on the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 14 | ‘ It is important for everyone to roll up their sleeves and fight to get back on the winning trail . ’ |
| 15 | Mansell , clearly in pain , was then helped from his car and stood doubled up on the edge of the track before being escorted away to the medical centre for a lengthy check-up . |
| 16 | Perhaps you could say to both daughter and stepdaughter that you are finding it hard to cope with your husband and need to ease up on the child minding . |