Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 2 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
| 4 | Yeah it it means that you can point out that it makes it a lot simpler for someone to just pop over for a night and crash out on the floor . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 6 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 7 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 8 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |
| 9 | A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left . |
| 10 | Stepping out of the stables , she opened the half-door of the Lagonda and got in on the driver 's side . |
| 11 | And Margot went thanks very much , and got back on the bus . |
| 12 | Well , it 's good to be back on the list and catching up on the mountain of messages . |
| 13 | Anyway they would land down at our place most weekends , because we used to take the Darlington and Stockton Times , and they would all be smoking their pipes and talking , asking , ‘ What hast thou fresh , now ’ and catching up on the comings and goings of Baldersdale . |
| 14 | Draws near and flops down on the seat . |
| 15 | The missiles would climb out of the atmosphere , using a two stage rocket motor , and home in on the heat emitted from a target satellite . |
| 16 | With the paperwork finished , it 's across to the Mess for a cup of tea and to catch up on the rest of the news . |
| 17 | It 's debatable whether PGA is the best golf game , but it 's certainly the easiest to get into without the fuss of reading pages of instructions and swatting up on the physics of the humble golf ball . |
| 18 | But if a person climbs a nearby hill and looks down on the site , the whole city can be seen and to some extent understood : viewing a site at an angle in this way is equivalent to an oblique aerial photograph . |
| 19 | You 've got a long and full life ahead of you , chum , so you must now stop worrying and go back to sleep and catch up on the strength you 'll need for living it up when you 're better . ’ |
| 20 | LOOSE ALICE , also known affectionately as Slack , shot out of the trap in a blur of speed and bore down on the man who was running in front of her squeezing a squeaky toy . |
| 21 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 22 | At the same time they have re-examined ‘ respect for the individual ’ , and focussed back on the manager 's role in developing trust , justice , helping employees take ownership of their jobs . |
| 23 | He shrugs and lies back on the bed . |
| 24 | She stumbles after him , and lies down on the bed . |
| 25 | I was blown to one side off the macadam , then dragged back and crashed down on the other . |
| 26 | Behind him there was a rumble as the great octagonal slab rose into the air , hung for a moment on one edge , and crashed down on the floor . |
| 27 | Something lumbered and crashed out on the sandbank . |
| 28 | Under the old community the harvest was the climax of the rural year , not merely an incident in the more mechanical and depersonalized round on the farm as it has become today . |
| 29 | He passed out , and woke up on the ground having fallen 1800 feet into a fir tree and five feet of snow . |
| 30 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |