Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 2 | But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ? |
| 3 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 4 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 5 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 6 | Unlike both his younger brother and sister , who clearly suffered from an inability to form stable ties with other people and seemed to depend on the bottle to bolster their self-assurance , Valentin 's reputation was almost that of a good prince in a fairy-tale . |
| 7 | He stood up and seemed to roll on the balls of his feet . |
| 8 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 9 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 10 | The chickens would all be cooked by the next afternoon and allowed to cool on the pantry 's cold slabs . |
| 11 | The two governments also undertook to co-ordinate customs and police investigations of illegal waste shipments , and pledged to cooperate on the development of recycling technologies ( notably in packaging , cars and domestic appliances ) . |
| 12 | More men appeared in the street and began to converge on the courtyard . |
| 13 | Eventually he shrugged , drew out his skeleton-key pouch and began to work on the lock . |
| 14 | I was doubtful , but there was nothing else , so I tore a plastic bag into pieces , fixed these in place , and began to screw on the cylinder . |
| 15 | They can be encouraged and guided to work on the Options activities alone , either for homework or purely to reinforce previous work . |
| 16 | A moment of clarity touched him , and his eyes flickered open , and managed to focus on the roof of the vehicle that sped him westwards , towards the hospital . |
| 17 | Uplights are simply downlights in reverse and meant to stand on the floor . |
| 18 | One night he trotted across the hearth and proceeded to do on the video recorder what trained dogs do outside — usually on trees ! |
| 19 | LETTERS then is a ‘ 2nd cycle ’ isomorphic with the ‘ lst ’ ’ , a recycling of Barth 's earlier characters whose destinies are expanded and brought to bear on the America of the late 1960s ( Barth 1980a : 656 ) . |
| 20 | I donned a tie and went to call on the manager of the Sudan Air office in the guise of an Important Person . |
| 21 | I gave it a wide berth and went to sit on the rug , but of course it had gone so I sat on one of the chairs instead , had a good long wash and settled down for a nap . |
| 22 | Then , remembering herself , she slipped off her dress and went to lie on the bed . |
| 23 | Once into the trees , they lost sight of the sun and the sky and had to rely on the compass to keep them heading in the right direction . |
| 24 | That was the danger as Arsenal , chasing success on two cup fronts but arriving on a roll of four straight wins and reinforced by the returns of Ian Wright , Lee Dixon and John Jensen , massed behind the ball and waited to pounce on the break . |
| 25 | Material devastation was on a spectacular scale , in addition to episodes such as the tale of 300 babies taken out of hospital incubators and left to die on the ground . |
| 26 | However , on Dec. 17 a motion which the Socialists had helped to draft , to indict Hervé and Dufoix but not Fabius for " failing to assist people in danger " , was blocked when the Socialists changed their minds and refused to vote on the motion as it stood . |