Example sentences of "[adv prt] [coord] [verb] on [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You referred frequently to how well you know and the village , so I am sure she will , subject to your approach , be willing to go in and switch on a convector in each of the two rooms and read the meter . |
| 2 | ‘ Get your foot down and switch on the siren . ’ |
| 3 | Reluctantly , Mrs. Henry bent down and switched on the vacuum-cleaner again . |
| 4 | Bob looked away hurriedly , and Mrs. Hennessy bent down and switched on the vacuum-cleaner . |
| 5 | It was whilst working my way through this , often writing in the column headings for several pages in advance to give myself the illusion that I had completed more than I actually had , that two important suspicions that had lain dormant for some time rose up and took on the aspect of horribly credible hypotheses . |
| 6 | I wish I could hang it up and put on a new one ’ . ’ |
| 7 | Someone got up and put on a Pink Floyd album . |
| 8 | Jane Pargeter stood up and switched on the standard lamp beside her chair , standing with her arms akimbo , self-contained yet vulnerable . |
| 9 | Rachaela sat up and switched on the light . |
| 10 | The girl got up and switched on an X-ray display panel with two plates . |
| 11 | His account brings the whole city alive : the dry bones of the period are suddenly fleshed out and take on a recognizable human face . |
| 12 | The ball jumped up and out and hung on the wind |
| 13 | Connors looked at him intently through the smoke haze as he reached out and switched on a tape recorder . |
| 14 | There were excited exclamations at the sight of the returned Emily and they flocked round her desk to welcome her back and pass on the gossip of the preceding week . |
| 15 | Quickly she stepped back and switched on the light . |