Example sentences of "[vb pp] on and [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently industrialised nations and their politicians torture themselves into believing that if Third World countries are turned into amphitheatres of food and agricultural research , lustily cheered on and abetted by Western ‘ gurus ’ , everything will be hunky-dory . |
| 2 | I mean I do n't know , I mean somebody er our respective conferences could have raised that er and the debate 's gone ahead and it 's been voted on and said no , I mean I do n't know . |
| 3 | Eventually a further final , concurrent budget resolution has to be voted on and submitted for the president 's signature , theoretically in time for the beginning of the financial year on 1 October . |
| 4 | Soon the summer revels of BB at the then uncrowded , unchic little port of St Tropez , with a succession of young actors and guitar players ( Trintignant soon withdrew to the peace of Army service ) , were spied on and peeped at by the photographers and published in countless magazines and newspapers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Kevin gets picked on and look what happened to him . |
| 7 | When one friend was being picked on and hacked by a bullying and much bigger opponent , Burton laid the bully out ; when the referee was not looking , of course . |
| 8 | " Wherever we settle down in the end , " thought Hazel , " I 'm determined to see that Pipkin and Fiver are n't sat on and cuffed around until they 're ready to run any risk just to get away . |
| 9 | This idea was the brainchild of Anna Coombes who , in 1988 , took over as gardener ; her work has been carried on and developed by her successor Linda Roberts since the beginning of 1990 . |
| 10 | The reader is recommended to consult the work of the Opies as an example of a vivid reconstruction of the semi-autonomous world of children 's songs , games and folk-lore , a culture often carried on and elaborated over generations ( Opie and Opie , 1959 ) . |
| 11 | Then there were blankets to be cleaned , saddles to be lifted on and buckles galore to be done up on girths and surcingles , stirrups and cruppers , breastplates and bridles . |
| 12 | Your dog can then watch events without fear of being trodden on and hurt by passers-by . |
| 13 | Thousands of townsfolk just looked on and cheered the thugs . |
| 14 | It would not be eaten — she had not the faintest illusion of that — but it would be looked on and smiled over and would bring back happy memories and it was all she could think of to signify her reborn affection . |
| 15 | We are not here concerned with the problems involved in obtaining samples ; our focus is on the survey once the sample has been decided on and drawn . |
| 16 | Such initiatives need to be built on and extended . |
| 17 | Of course , I 'm well aware that this was never the point and that posing potential is at maximum only when the guitar is strapped on and slung low . |
| 18 | The historian D.L.W. Tough comments that the main pointers are in what is omitted rather than what is mentioned : barely a reference to shirts or nightshirts , and the possibility that even adult Borderers had their underclothes sewn on and removed as seldom as those of slum children in later industrial cities . |
| 19 | The extent to which British society has , until recently , found such institutions congenial derives largely from an unbroken and perhaps originally feudal tradition of social networks and obligations which were imposed on and accepted by all members of society , whatever their status . |
| 20 | Now if that car had pushed on and did n't brake when he did , that driver would either have taken car out or the keep left bollards would n't he ? |
| 21 | At " low " speeds ( less than 100 steps per second in the example of Fig. 4.1 ) the current is quickly established in the windings when a phase is turned on and stays near its rated value for a substantial part of the time for which the phase is excited . |
| 22 | The leg must be operated on and straightened , then put into splints or plaster , or the kid 'll remain in that crippled position for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | He was operated on and survived — just , and in passing I must comment on the dedication and skill of the Indian surgeon and Sri Lankan woman anaesthetist who performed the operation . |
| 24 | Within 30 minutes of receiving EaziLink we were logged on and uploading our copy . |
| 25 | Within 30 minutes of receiving EaziLink we were logged on and uploading our copy . |
| 26 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 27 | I thought they might of got on and done that |
| 28 | But I 've never had to worry about them so I , I 've never really got on and learnt them . |
| 29 | At the Chalk Farm stop an attractive , freckled schoolgirl , about sixteen , in a smart navy uniform and white blouse , had got on and sat a few seats away . |
| 30 | The activities of the conceptual phase are not just acted on and completed on their own before any other phase is considered . |