Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv prt] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staring at him worriedly , she slowly sank down to sit on the edge of the bed . |
| 2 | When Jos moved round to work on the other side of the gate , he handed Mungo a sheet of sandpaper , telling him to use plenty of ‘ elbow grease ’ . |
| 3 | All of them failed , from the disastrous Purko Sheep Ranch , where the sheep died because the ranch was at too high an altitude , to the four big grazing schemes which went under in the drought of the early 1960s , when people from outside the schemes , under pressure of need , came in to graze on the permanent waters and massive erosion occurred . |
| 4 | Rob came over to perch on the corner of her desk . |
| 5 | She made me coffee , gave me hugs , and at one point I fell asleep , and was at peace for a while , and woke up sprawled on the floor , my head on her lap , one gentle hand stroking my head . |
| 6 | When the keeper came up to check on the Spectacled Bears , she could n't understand that Omero and Minky were trying to tell her that Sam was ill , she just saw that he was curled up in a ball and would n't move . |
| 7 | Fortunately , in the last week John Major came out fighting on the past reforms and his vision of a free , low tax , property-owning Britain . |
| 8 | When the gunmen climbed in to sit on the benches at the side they had to put their booted feet on the prisoners . |
| 9 | But as the sepoy lunged forward to put an end to the struggle he stumbled , blinded by the dust and plaster from the ceiling , and fetched up choking on the floor beside Fleury . |
| 10 | God damn Humber , I thought , and got up to write on the charts on the bed-table . |
| 11 | Two cuckoos flew down to settle on the wire fence . |
| 12 | Tal gave a most unparrotlike crow and flew up to perch on the top of a monitor . |
| 13 | But mainly she kept on bodyboarding on the quieter waves between Sunset and Backyards , going to parties , hanging out at the Sugar Bar , and talking to her friends on the telephone . |
| 14 | He went on to reflect on the foundation of new branches . |
| 15 | After loudly supporting an often-uncomfortable Jackson campaign again in the primary , Fulani went on to run on the NAP ticket , winning 240,000 votes in the general election — a considerable performance for a minor party . |
| 16 | The report went on to comment on the absence of objective criteria for setting health priorities and to emphasise the need for health service research to be multidisciplinary . |
| 17 | Fists went on hammering on the door . |
| 18 | McIlvanney went on to work on the Scotsman as a news reporter and feature writer , though with his passion for football and boxing , the attraction towards sports was inevitable . |
| 19 | Oliphant , who was also knighted , went on to work on the atomic bomb , and subsequently returned to his native South Australia , where he became Governor . |
| 20 | Very few erm Continental countries would consider entrusting the administration of justice erm to erm people who took an afternoon or a day off work every week or so and went in to sit on the Bench . |
| 21 | And then she turned away , and went over to check on the stove . |
| 22 | Allitt went over to check on the boy and then shouted to a staff nurse to come quickly . |
| 23 | So I went over to knock on the door . |
| 24 | Wanted to know if I could remember whether Mr Meredith went off riding on the day Anna was attacked . ’ |
| 25 | We lay on the hard , orange clay and went through the different procedures that we would use when we went off to fire on the shooting range . |
| 26 | The little boy went back to sit on the stairs with his seven brothers . |
| 27 | The brown egg struck the wall behind Delaney 's head with a clang and whirled back to bounce on the top of the radio bench . |
| 28 | She stopped shouting and gave up hammering on the door . |
| 29 | He leaned back to tap on the glass partition and then slid it open . |
| 30 | I carried on knocking on the door and begging to be let in . |