Example sentences of "on and [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Whilst I saw myself as the hero 's faithful sidekick got up as I was in cowboy gloves with real leather fringes , two guns in holsters buckled on and tied around the leg for fast draws , ten gallon hat and waistcoat , Skippy insisted that I be the daughter of the murdered rancher whose cattle were being rustled . |
| 2 | Look we have got special bread now come on and sit at the table with us , |
| 3 | She wanted to go on and talk to the audience before the show began : ‘ Like me , please like me , ’ she said to them , which is an approach not appreciated by British audiences . |
| 4 | 17.32 Development in attainment target 3 is marked by : increasing control over the structure and organisation of different types of text ; a growing ability to handle complex or demanding subject matter ; a widening range of syntactic structures and an expanding vocabulary as the pupil begins to use language that is characteristic of writing rather than speech and to strive for a style that is appropriate to the subject matter and the readership ; a growing capacity to write independently and at length ; an increasing proficiency in re-reading and revising or redrafting the text , taking into account the needs of the audience ; a developing ability to reflect on and talk about the writing process . |
| 5 | an ability to reflect on and talk about the writing process . |
| 6 | In particular , the technical panels set up to consider workplans for the administrative networks component of telematics are currently in suspension , but the Commission has urged that replies to the questionnaires should still be sent in since these will be worked on and evaluated in the meantime . |
| 7 | But then you could n't just switch it on and listen to the music like the wireless . |
| 8 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 9 | Worrying about , concentrating on and listening to the head noises will make them seem even more prominent and dominating . |
| 10 | After a year of arguments , Citrine finally relented and the EDA 's local work was taken on and expanded by the Area Boards , though its London headquarters , with a staff of 67 , survived as a formally separate organisation but with its £150000 annual budget financed principally by the industry . |
| 11 | Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences . |
| 12 | They ran on and crept through the hedge . |
| 13 | Catching sight of the transistor radio , he clicked it on and fiddled with the tuning , encountering only heavy bands of static interspersed with the twittering gibberish of machines . |
| 14 | Their owners were also beginning to notice what was going on and commented on the changes that were making their business more difficult , for the books often had no dispersal markings on them . |
| 15 | The Government are hoping to carry on and according to the Secretary of State for the Environment the people will have to put up with the tax until 1993 . |
| 16 | Until 1973 , most of the rock used by Kay & Company came from Ailsa Craig but escalating costs of quarrying on and transporting from the isle , coinciding with the retiral of the family who did the quarrying , brought production to a halt . |
| 17 | Er I 'm not s erm er it does n't include jobs that we 've done the design work on and sent to the areas for building . |
| 18 | I jumped off the bank I was sitting on and ran for the ball , elated . |
| 19 | To keep this depth and spread without using chorus I just left the chorus switched on and backed off the rate and depth controls to 0 ; switching the chorus off again put the sound back in the middle of the speakers and sounded quite boring by comparison . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The babies are sold on and shipped round the world as soon as they are weaned from their mothers at about a year or 18 months . |
| 21 | She sucked in a steadying gulp of air , letting it go with little huffing sounds before she walked on and turned into the lane . |
| 22 | Lifting the white towelling robe from its hook behind the door , she slipped it on and hurried from the room and along the balcony to find him , smiling when she heard the low rumble of his deep voice coming from downstairs in the living-room . |
| 23 | I 'll make a further prediction that if ‘ Eric the Enigma ’ is substitute , Ferguson will pray for the chance to bring him on and bask in the reception for a stylist after Old Trafford 's heart . |
| 24 | He unscrewed the mouthpiece which had been hastily jammed on and caught by the thread . |
| 25 | The history of the imposition of obligations without compensation has been to push that point progressively further on and to add to the list of requirements considered to be essential to the well-being of the community . |
| 26 | And either you say to yourself ‘ I ca n't find it ’ or you can go on and get to the middle of things and keep trying to find it . |
| 27 | Further information was contained on and used by the payroll system which was not contained on or used by the PMIS and vice versa It was therefore decided that the updating procedures for the Payroll Master File and the PMIS should be kept separate at this stage . |
| 28 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
| 29 | knew something was on and nudged at the clouds . |
| 30 | Laid back , bang on and chilled to the gills . |