Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've only been on since I read that thing in the square ball , and I suppose loads must have done the same as me and jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 2 | Will you do me one to take home with me and put on the wall ? ’ |
| 3 | Cautiously she made her way down them and flicked on the light , gasping in appreciation as she found herself in an ultra-modern kitchen . |
| 4 | He picked up the books one by one , opening them at the title page , watching every movement of her pen as she signed them and commenting on the brilliance of each individual plot . |
| 5 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 6 | Yeah but then he 'll , we should be able to manage then to pay the mortgage and pay them and keep on the level peg . |
| 7 | The amount that banks hold in cash and operational balances is up to them and depends on the demand for cash that they expect from their customers . |
| 8 | Since October 1921 military detachments had been sent out to the local villages to billet in them and to insist on the tax in kind ( shades of expropriation by force in the period of War Communism ) . |
| 9 | Whatever surfaces are provided , the fish often ignore them and spawn on the side of the tank . |
| 10 | Then they stick the needle in you and pull on the blood and it 's disgusting ! |
| 11 | I ask you , hundreds of miles from bloody anywhere and the Coke reps have been there before you and shat on the landscape . |
| 12 | In-depth articles on the Company itself and reporting on the latest innovative trends from the design studio , all form part of their activities . |
| 13 | Buy something and get on the escalator . |
| 14 | Emecheta followed its success with Second-Class Citizen and The Bride Price but when her publishers , Allison and Busby , went broke , she decided to publish the hardbacks herself and sell on the paperback rights . |
| 15 | Even after deciding to put public service behind him and concentrate on the private sector , he has never quite seemed able to escape involvement with government . |
| 16 | The bird , which Gould called the harlequin bronzewing , and which later became known as the flock pigeon , rose from the water beside him and alighted on the ground 40 yards away , just within reach of Gould 's expert aim . |
| 17 | He did n't advise but just stood there , nodding his head vaguely and smiling to himself while his hands — almost involuntarily — went through the motions of twisting the spindle he 'd brought with him and winding on the wool . |
| 18 | Kate looked away from him and concentrated on the ormolu clock on the mantelpiece , its ticking the only other sound in the room . |
| 19 | They took no notice of him and stood on the front step , talking in low voices . |
| 20 | Uncontrollable sobs broke from her and echoed on the night . |
| 21 | Sapped of all energy , Belinda fell listlessly through the door , let it drift shut behind her and slumped on the bed , utterly confused about what had just happened . |
| 22 | He slipped in beside her and crunched on the dusty taste of a Rennie . |
| 23 | Cal followed her and sat on the floor . |
| 24 | He pulled away from her and sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 25 | I moved towards her and sat on the bed and put an arm round her . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's a cream car in the lane , ’ she explained , ‘ and the driver is standing beside it and leaning on the horn . ’ |
| 27 | But Jews know a good thing when they taste it and alighted on the herring because it was inexpensive , piquant , nutritious and versatile . |
| 28 | He says , he 's filled the wheelie bin and it 's go he 's been in it and jumped on the top , so course his track suit is |
| 29 | The track plunged down into it and emerged on the other side . |
| 30 | Although it is now possible to use a system of notation , choreographers still prefer to create directly on the human material , working on it and relying on the dancers ' own memories to repeat what has been designed on and for them . |