Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their park was given over as a whole for building development , and laid out on the gridiron pattern in the middle decades of the eighteenth century . |
| 2 | ‘ I even have my dress all ready and laid out on the bed . ’ |
| 3 | They trust you to get into a panic and err wildly on the side of generosity . ’ |
| 4 | We go downstairs and sit side-by-side on the sofa . |
| 5 | Again , change hands , push the tiller to where you were sitting , watch for the boom , as it swings across , straighten up and sit down on the new side . |
| 6 | Although she was not aware of it she was , in her shabby white cotton blouse and her dark green skirt , with her blue-black and glossy curls drawn up and knotted simply on the top of her head , her face glowing and vital , the only touch of colour in the grimy street . |
| 7 | Module headers can be generated and duplicated quickly on the user 's account , perhaps with standard information related to the project in hand supplied in certain fields . |
| 8 | The horns are quite different to those of other White Parks : they are much more upright , and curve inwards on the females . |
| 9 | Stopping the pipes and stepping out on the footpath at the side of the river I walked towards the Green Berets . |
| 10 | Yeah it it means that you can point out that it makes it a lot simpler for someone to just pop over for a night and crash out on the floor . |
| 11 | When I designed the L.game it seemed obvious from the rules I had written that the pieces could be picked up and placed anywhere on the board . |
| 12 | Soviet leaders had been prepared to consider international arrangements and guarantees only on the external aspects of the Afghan problem . |
| 13 | Recently , it is said that the pair enjoyed ‘ an evening walk by the river ’ in the course of which ‘ they wandered deep in conversation , pausing only to kiss and cuddle tenderly on the deserted towpath . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , for me , I reckon I can run and swim , and make out on the shooting if I put my mind to it , but the riding — well — I do n't know about the riding . ’ |
| 15 | Casters are the better of the two for the reason that they sink and remain still on the bottom until they are eaten . |
| 16 | Their advice should probably have been to go down the High Street to a large newsagents and buy one or more magazines devoted to the PC and read up on the subject . |
| 17 | He said the key to SmithKline 's success was its ability to market and sell brands and cash in on the potential of new products . |
| 18 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 19 | He removes his parka , wrapping it around the muzzle of his Sturm-Ruger , and sits back on the step of the lectern . |
| 20 | The band failed to advise said fans , who have endured a five-year wait to see them play live in the UK , that tickets went on sale last Saturday , and sold out on the same day . |
| 21 | In his critical essay , A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral ( 1717 ) , he examined many of the issues treated by Thomas Tickell and Alexander Pope [ qq.v. ] in the Guardian dispute of 1713 , and argued strongly on the side of Tickell that writers of pastorals should use imagery drawn from contemporary rural life . |
| 22 | A white Volkswagen Beetle crawled towards me out of the fog and passed by on the left . |
| 23 | The primary bevels were ground back and feathered away on the grindstone , taking care not to overheat and destroy the temper . |
| 24 | Shamed Souness said : ‘ I 'd rather not talk about the goals we gave away and concentrate instead on the pluses . ’ |
| 25 | To neglect these questions and concentrate instead on the ‘ environment ’ of learning , however important that might be , is to risk encouraging the belief that teachers are judged and advanced on the basis of how their classrooms took rather than how and what their pupils learn ; consequently , some may feel that it is strategically sensible to concentrate on surface at the expense of substance . |
| 26 | The vendor should resist assuming that the full earn out will eventually be paid and concentrate instead on the formula and past performance to consider the realistic expectation . |
| 27 | Van Gogh 's life has so often been made the subject of literary treatment that the art historian is strongly inclined to leave the biographical matter severely alone and concentrate exclusively on the artistic aspect . |
| 28 | Professional conjurers who do complicated and difficult tricks practise until they can totally forget the technique and concentrate entirely on the audience . |
| 29 | If he was to become the Asian Superman of Nietzsche 's teachings , he must cast aside all thought of pleasure and sensual gratification and concentrate only on the task before him ! |
| 30 | As such it is difficult to do more than introduce some issues and concentrate only on the subset of issues that have figured most prominently in the public finance sub-discipline . |