Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile Stanley made short work of undoing the nuts , pulling off the old wheel and slipping on the new . |
| 2 | Drivers of both groups said that drunken passengers were a problem : they ‘ messed about ’ in the car , grabbed the steering wheel and pulled on the handbrake . |
| 3 | The jeep continued to bounce and surge along the rutted , forlorn track that led , Robyn prayed , to the barn and to help , for several more minutes , while she gripped the wheel and perched on the edge of her seat , peering through the rain for any signs of civilisation . |
| 4 | If this advice is ignored , the torque of the seven-foot-diameter propeller , and the airflow it sends corkscrewing down the fuselage and acting on the large fin , causes the relatively light 207 to suddenly aim for the left-hand side of the runway . |
| 5 | Despite these real successes , however , my sense is that now is a time to take stock and to reflect on the theoretical , pedagogic and political foundations of multiculturalism and antiracism . |
| 6 | Anyone who became insolvent by keeping no books , never taking stock and going on year after year without knowing how their affairs stood , was like a child at school who found to his surprise that he had but one halfpenny left in his pocket . |
| 7 | The song , properly known as the ‘ Song of the Western Men ’ , was not sung on the road : it was not written until two centuries later , by the eccentric Parson Hawker of Morwenstow , ( in the intervals between scaring his parishioners by dressing as a mermaid and singing on the seashore ) . |
| 8 | Miguel took the card and wrote on it what had been done for Samantha . |
| 9 | If you use a pattern such as a basic 1x1 pattern ( that 's one hole punched , one hole blank , all across the card and alternating on the next row ) the resulting fabric has very short floats , not floats at all really ( swatch 6 ) . |
| 10 | Sony Corp appointed Michael Schulhof , now vice-chairman of Sony USA Inc , to the post of president and chief executive of its US unit , which will be renamed Sony Corp of America : Schulhof joined Sony in 1974 after a mainly academic career as a physicist and worked on the development of the compact disk ; in 1989 , he became one of the first Americans to be appointed to the board of a major Japanese company . |
| 11 | We have a new phone system , so you can r If you want to test it out you might as well just give me a ring and come on the air to begin with . |
| 12 | At eighteen , in love with love , she 'd accepted his ring and walked on air until common sense had brought her down to earth and made her realise that marriage to him would be a total disaster . |
| 13 | Reactions were incubated 15 min RT and separated on a 4.2% polyacrylamide ( 29:1 ) gel . |
| 14 | I leave Darius shuffling in the litter while I ease up to the bedroom and try on a smile like when the pink Panther gets caught in a scrape . |
| 15 | Then he walked into his bedroom and sat on the edge of his bed with his head bowed while the bath filled , breathing deeply . |
| 16 | I went into my own bedroom and sat on the bed for a few minutes . |
| 17 | as if remembering the steps of a dance she walked to the long cheval mirror in the bedroom and tried on the dress , a dark grey beaded silk gown by Bruce Oldfield . |
| 18 | Humming to himself , he went back into the bedroom and put on a pair of grey corduroy trousers , a red shirt and a bright turquoise jumper , stained with food . |
| 19 | But once in the bedroom and sitting on the edge of the bed , her arm around her daughter , what could she say ? |
| 20 | The club and its supporters saw themselves as part of the mythical ‘ aristocracy ’ of football but Macari insisted they were out of touch with modern football and embarked on a mission to toughen the team and its image . |
| 21 | Also at this event the Champion of Oulton series continues with Graham Riley of Rochdale out to prove that he can stay on top of the contest and improve on his third place last year . |
| 22 | She was run over by a car travelling at excessive speed and overtaking on the wrong side . |
| 23 | In conclusion , we can say that the classical system depends crucially upon : ( a ) the dependence of investment and saving on the rate of interest ; ( b ) the upward and downward flexibility of wages , prices and interest rates ; ( c ) the existence of competitive forces in the economy . |
| 24 | The higher the premium is on conversion then the more the issue will be treated as a fixed interest investment and valued on a yield basis , with attention given to the financial strength of the issuing company and the number of times the interest/dividend payment is covered by available profits . |
| 25 | The modem has no on/off switch and relies on detecting the state of the DTR line ( pin 20 ) to see if it 's required . |
| 26 | He turned off the main light switch and put on the bedside lamp , and against the lamp he propped an old brown photograph . |
| 27 | Lord Forte will become president and remain on the group 's board . |
| 28 | Since 1981 she has been feature-writing for the bi-monthly alumni magazine of the University of Massachusetts , which gives her scope for science reporting and reporting on contemporary issues . |
| 29 | In his relentless meeting , greeting and speaking on behalf of GE he gained experience directly relevant to politics . |
| 30 | Therefore , an individual can be guilty of theft even though he had £1,000 in his purse and said on arrest that he would pay for the items shoplifted . |