Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On market-days and fair-days the cattle were driven along the streets or allowed to rest on the roadway . |
| 2 | But Old Red 's silences they found inexcusable because he never attended our parties , or bothered to turn on the charm to anyone . |
| 3 | First the court would sometimes place a strained or tortured meaning on the words of the exemption clause in order to deprive it of effect . |
| 4 | Hickson and Jacques severed direct contact with each other ; Shearman and Pateman had a major disagreement over a question of loyalty to the WEA , and the two new university resident tutors were not informed of the proposed developments nor invited to comment on the proposals which might affect Essex and Norfolk . |
| 5 | Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours . |
| 6 | But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ? |
| 7 | We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor . |
| 8 | Subclone fragments were then sequenced in both directions using M13 universal and reverse sequencing primers and aligned based on the method of Staden using the GCG 's Fragment Assembly Programs ( 8 ) . |
| 9 | Not long after Charlie had his lorry pinched and got hit on the head . ’ |
| 10 | So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars . |
| 11 | Once his parents were able to reassure him that his mummy had been very ill for a while but now she was better but had to take medicine he became a much easier boy to handle and stopped urinating on the carpet . |
| 12 | He filled the kettle and set it on the hob , then went through to the front room , closed the shutters , and tried radioing on the frequency Caspar had given him for the US Embassy in Belpan City . |
| 13 | He squirmed uncomfortably on the damp stone , and tried to look on the bright side . |
| 14 | She pushed her inner chaos to the back of her mind and tried to concentrate on the coming day . |
| 15 | Stepping up to bat in the eighth inning of game five on Sunday with the scores tied 1-1 , the Giants first baseman had trouble controlling the adrenalin , ‘ but I took a deep breath and tried to focus on the point of release of the ball ’ . |
| 16 | Unlike both his younger brother and sister , who clearly suffered from an inability to form stable ties with other people and seemed to depend on the bottle to bolster their self-assurance , Valentin 's reputation was almost that of a good prince in a fairy-tale . |
| 17 | He stood up and seemed to roll on the balls of his feet . |
| 18 | But she usually heard him creep in , however late it was , and came scratching on the door just as he had got his trousers off , or just as he was scraping her uneaten steak-and-kidney pie into a polythene bag to throw away at the office next day . |
| 19 | Then an arm lifted , as though of its own accord , and came to rest on the crown of his head . |
| 20 | These separated and came to rest on the head of each of them . |
| 21 | The chickens would all be cooked by the next afternoon and allowed to cool on the pantry 's cold slabs . |
| 22 | The two governments also undertook to co-ordinate customs and police investigations of illegal waste shipments , and pledged to cooperate on the development of recycling technologies ( notably in packaging , cars and domestic appliances ) . |
| 23 | My presence disturbed them and they flew screaming about me for many minutes until they tired and began to settle on the dark water . |
| 24 | Donna shifted the receiver to her other ear and began doodling on the pad . |
| 25 | More men appeared in the street and began to converge on the courtyard . |
| 26 | He gave her fingers a brief squeeze , then released them and began drumming on the table . |
| 27 | But after a while she wanted a change from her routine and began to go on the weekly trips regularly . |
| 28 | Just then Michael 's wife and a teenage person stole quietly into the shop from the rear and began working on the lettering of a ‘ Fiddler of Dooney ’ carving . |
| 29 | Miguel slipped off his casual shoes and began to pull on the black cuban-heeled boots he picked up from the floor . |
| 30 | Eventually he shrugged , drew out his skeleton-key pouch and began to work on the lock . |