Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] on the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 2 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 3 | And I draw on the same manual of environmental appraisal that erm Mr has mentioned in in his evidence , the Department of Transport 's manual . |
| 4 | Melinda and I lay on the hot bank , watching the swallows dive . |
| 5 | I have never seen him at the Council of Europe and I serve on the social , health and family affairs committee , which he has never attended . |
| 6 | Well , it was only a bedsitter and Andrea and I sat on the one divan having a smoke and a glass of the fizzy stuff I always brought her , and I said , ‘ What about slipping between the sheets ’ ? ’ |
| 7 | I forgot I 'd got them on and I slipped on the bottom stairs . |
| 8 | My wife Eva and I live on the northern-most tip of the island of Barbados where we run the Pirates Tavern and the tourist centre of ‘ Animal Flower Cave ’ . |
| 9 | Tod and I reclined on the wrung bedding as Irene advanced into the room , holding a tightly gripped paper tissue to her eyes and calling us a piece of shit . |
| 10 | That 'll be in the new , in the red line and you go on the other stuff . |
| 11 | She could see Keith , crouched over his papers , and she rapped on the living-room window to tell him to let her in . |
| 12 | A cow lashed out at her and she slipped on the wet floor . |
| 13 | Irene Markham indicated for her to sit down and she perched on the very edge of an upright chair suddenly feeling quite miserable and wishing she had n't come . |
| 14 | Henniker moved a chair for her , and she sat on the extreme edge of it . |
| 15 | President Marjorie Clarke expressed pleasure at seeing Kay Hampton back after her recent illness and she reported on the good progress being made by Sue Rankin and Miss Elliott who had also been ill . |
| 16 | Her car started to overheat and she stopped on the hard shoulder . |
| 17 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |
| 18 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 19 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 20 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 21 | They get to work , it started off one of these days did n't it so the lift 's out of order and they work on the top floor , so they 've now got to run up all those stairs , the energy is being used up . |
| 22 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 23 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 24 | He was a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust ( 1932–67 ) , and he served on the governing bodies of the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1933–62 ) , St Edward 's School , Oxford ( 1933–57 ) , and two other schools , while he was a member of Oxford University 's hebdomadal council from 1935 to 1947 . |
| 25 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 26 | He added that the USA would double its assistance to black South Africans to US$80,000,000 for housing , economic development and education programmes , and he called on the international community to support the process of political change . |
| 27 | It checks its own oil , checks its own petrol and watch this … ’ and he flicked on the high-powered air-conditioning . |
| 28 | Primarily a national vegetable judge , he was more than happy to cast his expert eye over the quality field of spring flowers and he commented on the high standard achieved by the village . |
| 29 | This is the first time I 've had someone round to tea in years , and it happens on the very day I become homeless . |
| 30 | The car crossed the shallow racing river in Boyle , passed the grey walls of the roofless monastery , and it kept on the main road leading across the Curlews . |