Example sentences of "she [verb] [adv prt] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | and then she got up on that |
| 2 | The occasional curtained litter or rickshaw sheltered its rich occupant from the sun as he or she ventured out on some errand . |
| 3 | THE actress mother of ‘ Home Alone ’ girl Gemma Gibson was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night from Spain . |
| 4 | THE ACTRESS mother of the ‘ home alone ’ girl , Gemma Gibson , was arrested as soon as she arrived back on British soil last night . |
| 5 | She scrambled along on leftover momentum , using her hands and knees more than her feet . |
| 6 | It makes me cough a bit because when I came on the scene he was the one academically everything and she was the one who was academically rather disadvantaged but she , she was , you know , no not having the greatest of , of , of success but erm it was said that she would n't be able to be a student nurse because she was n't bright enough but you know she clocked up the O levels and A levels like guide badges and she went off on this pre-nursing course in South Notts you know and she was in and out of the Queens on a course and people and , you know , and she said I do n't know all the answers but I 've a rough idea about some of the questions , I want to be a nurse and off she went to , to , to Walsall and I 'm not saying she 's a brilliant student nurse but erm absolutely clear that she 's better than some of the others . |
| 7 | If she eased up on this will for just a moment , love would fly away like a bird released from its cage . |
| 8 | No sooner had she sunk down on one of the chesterfields than he was hunkering down in front of her , lifting her injured foot to rest on his knee , removing the shoe and gently touching the nylon-covered flesh beneath the delicate ankle-bone . |
| 9 | She sat down on one of the red spoon-shaped chairs in the station foyer and placed her feet neatly together on the black and white tiles , staring down at the shoes Nurse Rose had so gushingly admired . |
| 10 | She sat down on one of the grey bucket seats to calm herself , to get her breath , but instead she began to cry . |
| 11 | She sat down on one of the seats , and waited for the man in the woollen hat to come up , see her , and check . |
| 12 | To our relief , she missed out on all the formalities except for a perfunctory cry of ‘ GamBei ’ ( ‘ Down the hatch ’ ) and ‘ Greetings to our British friends ’ , and concentrated on tucking into the excellent meal — she gave the impression that she had come for the food and drink and nothing else . |
| 13 | He urged her to sit down on one of the hard , gilded sofas for a moment . |
| 14 | The new kidney , planted in the abdomen , will help her get back on even terms . |
| 15 | Rachel gave the girl some analgesics for her pain , persuaded her to lie down on one of the beds then pulled the curtains around her to enable her to rest . |