Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture of it : Mum and me sitting on hard grey chairs in that clinic , me being soft-soaped by this pseud doctor , Mum being probed about my problem . |
| 2 | I said , Well Anne Avril and I knocked on eighty five doors on Thursday evening before we got one contact . |
| 3 | These cards I filed in alphabetical order , and I noted on each one details of new purchases and quantities . |
| 4 | ‘ May I ask , ’ he said , ‘ how you have done so well , since you and I met on those lonely marshes ? ’ |
| 5 | I was thought of as rather gallant and dashing , and I played on this for a long time , emphasizing the cruelty and hardship aspects of the camp , and skating over the boredom and hunger , which were what I chiefly remembered . |
| 6 | You have been patient and you have worked hard , and I fear on many occasions late into the night I 'm sure , you have proved adaptable and er you have been good-tempered . |
| 7 | A private internal affair needed resolving , and I went on that review group , I was prepared to do all that I could to resolve it . |
| 8 | He told Orchard , who had tickled and spanked the girl after enticing her to his flat : ‘ The prosecution accept , and I proceed on this basis , that your motive here was in no way sexual . |
| 9 | The shelves looked good , and I piled on all the books , heavy ones at floor level , lighter ones at the top . |
| 10 | After lunch we retired to the drawing-room where the camera crew had already set up , and I sat on one sofa and he on another . |
| 11 | I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties . |
| 12 | These are mean , niggardly and unnecessary regulations , and I call on all hon. Members who have any decency in them to throw them out . |
| 13 | I 'm a singer and I have on several occasions sung at male only Burns suppers which means you get wheeled in after the meal is over , and then wheeled out again after that , which does n't worry me at all |
| 14 | Alec and I parted on good terms . |
| 15 | I have reservations about the gown , and the designer and I decide on purple trousers and a lilac shirt — that way I 'm covered . |
| 16 | Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money . |
| 17 | and you know on that Robin Hood one |
| 18 | Then you go over the seat and hang off the inside , but you still keep a lot of weight on that outside peg and you put on some more if the tyre starts really sliding . ’ |
| 19 | So we 're quite proud of her , and she gets on great with the guys . |
| 20 | This girl she was well and she got on this fucking roundabout you know , one that swings out ? |
| 21 | He was perpetually in the grip of some obscure , niggling , unexplained bitterness , which led him to repudiate most of the overtures which Clara would from time to time make towards him ; she made these attempts because she was less frightened of him than she was of her mother , and she did on one or two occasions — the purchase of a bicycle , permission to go to the cinema — manage to enlist his sympathies . |
| 22 | Then she grabs the waistband of my trousers and tugs , and a button pops across the room , and she yanks on that zip like it ai n't gon na be needed any more and she slips her hand inside my pants . |
| 23 | And she capitalized on this , she saw where it could be to her advantage to be perceived as a celluloid creation . |
| 24 | He set her down on the landing and she stood on one foot , using the wall for support while he opened his living-room door . |
| 25 | ‘ I once travelled on a train from Leeds to London with Shaun and we got on fine . |
| 26 | And we got on this subject . |
| 27 | And we had on these shoes you know . |
| 28 | I use the words I learned from Gan and the Rubber Dummy with my work mates and we get on fine . |
| 29 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 30 | And we get on fine . |