Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 2 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 3 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 4 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 5 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 6 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 7 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 8 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 9 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 10 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 11 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 12 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 13 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 14 | We will select a winner , publish the card in the paper , and send it on to the national finals . |
| 15 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 16 | One of mankind 's first artistic gestures was to cover his hand with charcoal and press it on to a cave wall : ‘ I , man , was here ! ’ |
| 17 | Dampen the edge of the buckram , bring over the seam allowance of the band and press it on to the dampened edge , notching out excess fabric on inward curves . |
| 18 | Cut out or draw a picture of Freda and glue it on to the bookmark . |
| 19 | Pot up the small young plants as ‘ plugs ’ and grow them on in a frame or a greenhouse — or even in a wooden box covered with polythene . |
| 20 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 21 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |
| 22 | As he tried , several times , to restart his car before giving up and pushing it on to the verge to await rescue , traffic on the M8 from Glasgow quickly built up until there was a three-mile tailback . |
| 23 | From the drawings , he sketched various elevations , then cut them out and transferred them on to the blocks of wood to be bandsawn . |
| 24 | And suddenly he took the rumours and put them on like a coat . |
| 25 | He said that he did not think that it was a high priority to ask the Home Secretary to take £40 million out of his budget and put it on to the Secretary of State for Transport 's budget . |
| 26 | Pertamina head office was especially active during the Flores emergency , acting mainly as central co-ordinator for gifts of money and clothing , and passing everything on to the disaster relief co-ordinators . |
| 27 | As the dancers changed partners , set to each other , backed away , then set again and spun with crossed arms , Donald McCulloch became masterful , gripping the girls ' hands strongly , spinning so hard that the balls of their feet ached on the cobbles , and passing them on with an almost lordly flourish of his arm . |
| 28 | Jampel Changchub , aged 30 , was described as a ‘ principal member ’ of the group and was accused of ‘ collecting information and passing it on to the enemy ’ . |
| 29 | He unzipped the holdall , took out a couple of Boyt shoulder holsters and dropped them on to the table before delving into the holdall again for two handguns carefully wrapped in strips of green cloth . |
| 30 | He pulled the brassiere from her body and dropped it on to the floor . |