Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to relinquish status and income , both of which are like to fall if you take a step down or sideways or you stop on the career ladder . |
| 2 | Get off you do n't climb on people 's chairs you sit on them or you play on the floor |
| 3 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 4 | Thus she used a stout stick which was nearly twice her height to walk across the court , or she leaned on the arm of the nearest grandchild or servant . |
| 5 | After reading some of the comments from people who saw the game or who listened on the radio , the above seems to be about as true reporting as you 'd expect from the NOTW . |
| 6 | Applicants require a good Honours degree ( or equivalent ) in an approved discipline , normally either from a design-based discipline such as architecture , civil engineering or planning , or one based on the biological sciences , and a year 's appropriate professional experience since graduating . |
| 7 | Then there came it think it was the gearbox or something went on the gar , you know , because I tow a caravan , and the car just would n't pull the caravan , and it was going to cost over a thousand pounds and that like . |
| 8 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 9 | The creatures of the open sea , then , live either in the plankton ; or live in the waters beneath and browse upon the plankton — or live upon the browsers ; or they live on the bottom , and wait for the planktonic manna to rain upon them from above ; or they feed on the creatures that feed upon the bottom . |
| 10 | ‘ There were 17 players in the team and everyone got on the pitch at some point during the game , ’ he added . |
| 11 | and everyone jumped on the bandwagon , or have they all made up their own ? |
| 12 | It was just after three in the morning , and there were no lights on in any of the houses and nothing moving on the street . |
| 13 | ‘ I did not want things that Picasso gave Douglas and me coming on the market , and Billy very decently gave me the drawing ’ . |
| 14 | and go and I tack up the horse and I get on the horse and everything and I do n't mean to say |
| 15 | So we managed to get the lorry out and I got on the ‘ phone to Bristol University . |
| 16 | But it 's also fears that the Party itself is becoming too radical too , they always want to control two elements and I mean on the last page , point number sixteen it says that how that erm tt that how that the Communist Party members ought to refrain from securing undue benefits by taking advantage of their leading position . |
| 17 | My head goes down and I focus on the problem until I figure out how it can be solved , ’ said the man whose solutions make tomorrow 's game a test of the Premier Division 's worthiness as well as an international examination on a particularly thorough level . |
| 18 | Another mountain of water came , pushed me up the beach , and I fell on the wet sand . |
| 19 | I taught her a new move and she practised it on me but she missed and got me in the and I fell on the ground . |
| 20 | Surkov and I sprawled on the twin beds ; Rozanov sat on the floor , his back against the drawn curtains ; Masha , in a comfortable chair , kicked off her high heels and drew her legs under her flower-patterned skirt . |
| 21 | Erm and I thought on the whole , the language was scriptural . |
| 22 | At the last , slightly shorter if I remember , it had been a 3- or a 4-iron for the second shot and I thought back to 1958 and the fourth at Lytham , But this rime the boss and I agreed on the 3-iron . |
| 23 | And I draw on the same manual of environmental appraisal that erm Mr has mentioned in in his evidence , the Department of Transport 's manual . |
| 24 | ‘ For the first month she had to sleep on the settee , and I lay on the floor beside her . |
| 25 | Melinda and I lay on the hot bank , watching the swallows dive . |
| 26 | And I hear on the grapevine Trumphauser at Cornell is giving him a chapter to himself in his book on British working-class literature . |
| 27 | And I sit on the immunization su subcommittee anyway , so they better not dare . |
| 28 | It was a drizzling spring afternoon and I paused on the steps to button my coat . |
| 29 | Oh mind , it was quite light , it was n't and I saddled on the path and I did n't , I do n't take chances . |
| 30 | Ward 's voice smashed into my consciousness and I slammed on the brakes . |