Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] on a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you get the limited edition of Let's Knife , you too can Singalongaknife with the free karaoke CD : I am a sweet little cat/ and I dance on a flying saucer … |
| 2 | I was drinking Monk and Monk was a heavy beer so fuck I gets out of the car and fucking oh fuck , but anyway said to me look I 'll go up , say my name , and I 'll bring you home , I was living with my sister at the time and I sat on a wee low wall , I 'm just the wall , fu fuck I , in the middle of the day , nobody , they were just drinking er Dawn this is way were , it 's fucking maybe twenty five years ago , twenty six and er fuck he sat me on the wall he had to s I could n't see he says to me er fucking I heard a voice , Raymond like this is the exam tonight you 'll have to sit there . |
| 3 | She put out a hand and touched him on the sleeve , but he moved back as if he had n't noticed , and she said on a rising note , ‘ Why are you looking like that ? ’ |
| 4 | I go inside and Chris goes on the top deck and we meet on a quiet corner near the end of the Landing Stage , ’ Maureen said . |
| 5 | His two front teeth shattered , and he choked on a sudden spurt of blood . |
| 6 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 7 | right , Archie , he 's erm , on his own , own he 's er , think his wife died years ago , he saved and saved and he went on a big cruise , do you know what I mean ? |
| 8 | He finally took the advice of doctors a month later , and he went on a two-week holiday to Jamaica . |
| 9 | He had a growing circle of friends , almost entirely non-aristocratic , both in Worcestershire and in London , both inside and outside the House of Commons , and he entertained on a moderate scale . |
| 10 | Papa did n't know what to do , and then he got talking to some of his cronies , and he decided on a Grand Scheme . |
| 11 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman was asked extensively by Mr. Frost — I have the transcript here and it goes on a fair bit — about Labour 's policy . |
| 12 | But this was this big case was on you know , and it went on A big lawsuit it went on for quite a while . |
| 13 | It has been designed as a pan-European system with multilanguage facilities , all of its ledgers can operate in multiple currencies , and it runs on a wide variety of hardware platforms and operating systems , including Unix and a variety of proprietary systems . |
| 14 | Often there is a limit on numbers and it works on a first-come-first-served basis . |
| 15 | The argument comes just months after the ancient writings were finally opened up to scholars around the world , and it centres on a single phrase . |