Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [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 | Blunt hesitated , waiting for a pause , and finally tapped her on the arm . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charles took his bride 's hand and tenderly kissed it on the banks of the River Dee . |
| 9 | ‘ Like it ? ’ asked Sergeant , who had dashed round through the gate and now welcomed them on the other side . |
| 10 | He rose and absentmindedly patted me on the shoulder . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | He describes it as being initiated by the Burgundian king 's brother , Godegisel , who made secret overtures to Clovis , persuaded him to invade Burgundy , and then joined him on the battlefield . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'll go into North Inlet and quietly put her on the beach there . ’ |
| 14 | Jazzbeaux stretched her fingers and lightly rested them on the butt of her scavved gun . |