Example sentences of "and [verb] on the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plans for eight flats , a shop and garaging on the former Ringtons Tea site and a neighbouring builder 's yard in Oxford Road , Hartlepool , were thrown out by councillors after planners said the development was too intense for the area . |
| 2 | Half in panic , half in the laughter of release , she turned and turned on the same spot . |
| 3 | Hurriedly showering and pulling on the same pair of jeans she had worn the day she 'd arrived , she jerked a baggy sweater over her head and went downstairs . |
| 4 | the ‘ straddle ’ , consisting of an equal number of puts and calls on the same share , either bought or written ; |
| 5 | He sat in the hotel bedroom all weekend with Sam , played games with him , ate meat pies and children 's gob-stoppers cheaply out of paper bags and gorged on the all-in breakfast . |
| 6 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 7 | Torn between passing the letter to Alice or Amelia , Robert tossed a coin and settled on the latter . |
| 8 | Whereas Pleistocene geology was seen to be primarily concerned with stratigraphy and chronology , Butzer saw the need for a more comprehensive study of past environments and envisaged Pleistocene Geography as concerned with the natural environment and focused on the same themes of man and nature that are the concern of historical and contemporary geographies . |
| 9 | ‘ He told me about the importance of eating and drinking on the course to maintain my energy level and to keep on the same emotional level throughout a round . ’ |
| 10 | In this particular case , no other packages were affected and the DC was agreed immediately and activated on the same package . |
| 11 | Participant observation , then , is an attempt to put both observer and observed on the same side by making the former a member of the group so that he can experience what they experience and work within their frame of reference . |
| 12 | The Beast is a continuation of that tradition and capitalises on the same merits in combination with a wealth of other Brooks technology . |
| 13 | After establishing external drainage ( 8.3 Fr catheter ) a sample of bile were taken from the region of the stricture by the radiologist and sent on the same day to the Cytology Department . |
| 14 | " Two policemen — Irish policemen too — dead and killed on the same day as the first sitting of the new Irish parliamentarians . |
| 15 | My throat would itch with the dust of doves who enquired and conversed on the same few notes , while the heavy ticking of the estate clock at the top of a rotting ladder reverberated around the eight chalk walls where game used to be hung . |
| 16 | IBM is now looking at different materials and working on the many technical problems of writing on , and reading , the memory . |
| 17 | Goth , of Liverton Avenue , Whinney Banks , was taken into police custody , informed of the murder charge and released on the same bail conditions to appear on May 5 . |
| 18 | Unifying income tax and employees ' National Insurance contributions so that the two taxes are collected and administered together and paid on the same income , whether from earnings , investments , capital gains or perks . |