Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pers pn] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I managed to track her down and eventually got her on the telephone . |
| 2 | I looked around for Kalchu and eventually found him on the far side of the fire talking to a group of men , some of whom I recognized as being from Chaura and from Chhuma . |
| 3 | One was strange , because it was about an old lady who meant nothing to me at all ; I hardly knew her and only saw her on the rare occasions when I went into her family shop two or three hundred yards from us . |
| 4 | and only stuck me on the payroll |
| 5 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 6 | The Sweeper reached out a hand and gently put it on the front of Minch 's cage . |
| 7 | He threw off the blanket , picked up the limp girl and gently placed her on the mat in front of the blazing fire . |
| 8 | The mess steward came in with Woolley 's piano-accordion and gently laid it on the table . |
| 9 | And just put it on the coffee table , but keep it away from those books . |
| 10 | and just tie it on the top . |
| 11 | I 'll go in with them and see what I got ta get and just strap it on the roof . |
| 12 | And she like goes up to him quite freely and just kisses him on the lips , you know okay fair enough people have friendships like that but it 's not a kind of kiss on the cheek it is as if there 's something in it , you know , as if always she 's rubbing it into him . |
| 13 | And just do it on the money you owe on the house . |
| 14 | Blunt hesitated , waiting for a pause , and finally tapped her on the arm . |
| 15 | ‘ Denbighshire can afford to lose by fewer than four wickets and still pip us on the calculation of wickets lost where the points are equal , ’ explained manager Jones , of Buckley . |
| 16 | Therefore I suggest Mr Osborne tries inserting joysticks in both the ports and then enjoy the game which is really fun to play ( and hopefully put it on the Megatape after all ) . |
| 17 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 18 | Charles took his bride 's hand and tenderly kissed it on the banks of the River Dee . |
| 19 | Jurors decided that he assaulted his brother , Robert , 30 , to his severe injury and permanent disfigurement and to the danger of his life by shooting him , pinning him to the ground and repeatedly hitting him on the head with bottles . |
| 20 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
| 21 | they come up knocking at my door asking me to teach them boxing and even stopping me on the street . |
| 22 | For many of them , the classroom will be the first place where they are able to play with water and even spill it on the floor without incurring an adult 's displeasure . |
| 23 | I did not regard Harold Wilson as a wit , nor was his conversation particularly spiced with humour , but it was immensely interesting because he would talk to me about his problems and their supposed solutions , and seemingly consult me on the matter — he was a very polite man — although I was conscious that on most political issues my own opinion was pretty well valueless and he recognised that . |
| 24 | He rose and absentmindedly patted me on the shoulder . |
| 25 | Like we 've had women who have wet their knickers and then put them on the radiator to dry , or just swilled them out in the sink and end up with a smelly room . |
| 26 | So do you want to take e each object out one at a time and then put it on the table in the categories so you 've got one pile of bones . |
| 27 | ‘ Another man-witch , who was sentenced to the galleys for life , said that he had such a pity for the horses which the postillion galloped along the road that he did something to prevent it , which was that he took vervain and said over it the Pater Noster five times and the Ave Maria five times , and then put it on the road so that the horses should cease to run . ’ |
| 28 | And then put it on the stove and stew it ! |
| 29 | It is a trick that might just save the life of the bird if a cat has caught it and then placed it on the ground for a moment before starting to pluck it . |
| 30 | Fazisi is more complicated , almost the entire first half of the book is about the campaign , how it originated , how sponsors were found ( Pepsi sponsored them and then dropped them on the first day of the race ) . |