Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 2 | Our first sight of the island was a sharp mountain peak jutting through the low cloud which unfortunately spoiled our view , but in minutes we were through the cloud and touching down on the long black runway which ran parallel to the shores of the fiord . |
| 3 | The girls walked in the Rose Gardens and caught up on the past months , discussed the future . |
| 4 | The Six agreed to hold an intergovernmental committee , to be headed by the tireless Paul-Henri Spaak , which would consider , flesh out and report back on the various proposals . |
| 5 | What you have going for you is the ability to withstand whatever is dished up and to come out on the winning side . |
| 6 | As they rounded the hump and came out on the broad , gentler seaward slope they saw a uniformed policeman standing on the cliff edge , and when they joined him he pointed to the rocky shore below . |
| 7 | They were in their living-room , furnished with superbly anonymous taste , and looking out on the double garage and the green lawn and the spring flowers , tastefully clustered . |
| 8 | I rose from the table , went into the cell and flopped down on the hard wooden bed and was asleep almost immediately . |
| 9 | Once built , the nests are lined with tightly packed leaves which act as insulation and the hedgehogs are then ready to sleep the winter away , occasionally waking and wandering about on the off chance of finding a meal . |
| 10 | However , with God himself at the focus of our lives , we can rise above mere curiosity and focus in on the true purpose for reading the Bible . |
| 11 | Almost by reflex , McIlvanney and I take a corner table , and open up on the safe territory of swapping recriminations about our country 's lack of respect for the trade . |
| 12 | For hours he would sit by the window , and look out on the empty , Sunday street , as the church bells tolled dismally from different points in the town . |
| 13 | At the end of this road , walk a short way over the grassy hillside and look down on the turquoise waters of the bay ( Baia de Abra ) . |
| 14 | Gilly dragged a heavy stuffed chair backward to the shelf and climbed up on the very top of its back . |
| 15 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
| 16 | Hardly able to believe it and almost shaking with relief , I climbed through this ‘ window ’ and stepped out on the shaly slopes of Bla Bheinn , quite near the normal path on the east ridge and an easy walk from the top . |
| 17 | A Yamaha motorcycle worth £860 was stolen from Cooper Lane , Potto , near Stokesley , and later found abandoned and burnt out on the nearby A19 . |
| 18 | And in addition to that , of course , they have copper , and coming up on the future horizon cobalt , and erm the possibilities of developing tourism on quite a big scale , as they were beginning to do in the nineteen sixties before Amin Amin took over . |
| 19 | This error is like climbing below a col , and coming up on the wrong side of it . |
| 20 | Like the formal approach to organisations , such charts give us a picture of how an organisation works but it is only a partial picture and misses out on the crucial aspect of how people behave within organisations . |
| 21 | Wetherall then stumbled and fell over on the appalling pitch in the centre of the 6 yard box ( as he was correctly keeping his eye on the incoming ball ) . |
| 22 | She lost her balance and fell back on the old iron bedstead , pulling the old woman off her feet . |
| 23 | Ronni sighed and lay back on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread . |
| 24 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 25 | It 's not often you score 3 goals and end up on the losing team . |
| 26 | She was n't sure how she 'd got there : like someone who takes an electric shock from a kitchen implement and winds up on the other side of the room . |
| 27 | Change hands , push to where you were sitting , crouch in the middle of the boat and straighten up on the new course . |
| 28 | Right , I 'll , what I 'll do I 'll try and pick up on the local electrician or something . |
| 29 | In May these were taken away from the home grazings and put out on the distant moors for the summer . |
| 30 | The canoes had to be carried across and put in on the other side of the dam , then we were given , mini lesson on the art of canoeing in swift water . |