Example sentences of "and [verb] [pers pn] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She took the proffered tiny scrap of blotting paper and wiped it on to her tongue . |
| 2 | He refused to talk about his businesswoman wife who often followed his rounds wearing bright , tight dresses and cheering him on at every green . |
| 3 | ‘ He connected a wire to his computer , ran it under the carpet downstairs and soldered it on to the line so he could still make calls . |
| 4 | He had moved in and taken the stuffiness out of the business , slaughtering its ‘ professional ’ pretensions , and bringing it on to the High Street long before the present new wave of trendy estate agents . |
| 5 | ‘ I always wanted to work with a squad of young players and bring them on for a few seasons . |
| 6 | As well as capturing Irwin from Elland Road , they picked up defender Andy Linighan for £45,000 and sold him on to Norwich for £350,000 — and they got an extra £150,000 when he moved to Arsenal for £1 million . |
| 7 | Catherine 's anger was also aroused when a photographer took pictures of her topless on the French Riviera and sold them on to a men 's magazine . |
| 8 | The spokesman for United Engineering Steels said Irish firm Malone Parkinson Project Design had bought the furnaces and associated equipment and sold it on to the Chinese . |
| 9 | He selected a tape from the rack and threaded it on to a spare machine . |
| 10 | He was accused at his trial in 1990 of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances ( activities carried out by Tibetans in 1988 in support of independence ) and passed them on to others , thus violating the ( laws of ) secrecy ’ . |
| 11 | He was accused of having , ‘ with counter-revolutionary aims , collected lists of people detained in the disturbances and passed them on to others , thus undermining the law and violating the ( laws of ) secrecy . ’ |
| 12 | The Crown claim Butler had collected information about his movement in the town and passed them on to the IRA . |
| 13 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell , which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 14 | Spokeswoman Jane McLean said yesterday : ‘ After that we stopped recording the calls and passed them on to the JobCentre at Holywell which is handling the recruitment . ’ |
| 15 | The Head gaped , and passed him on to Sylvester . |
| 16 | An unsuspecting crew member intercepted a call destined for the prince and passed it on to Diana . |
| 17 | Culley took change from a ten pound note from the barman and passed it on to Stan , then carried the drinks over to the table where Kelso was sitting . |
| 18 | The very poor even sold the combings of their hair , to hawkers who came by crying for it , and passed it on to the dollmakers in Naples where it would stuff the turban of a king or tassel the tail of a donkey for a Nativity crib at Christmas . |
| 19 | ‘ They found it when they returned , and passed it on to me . ’ |
| 20 | He caught her ankle , lunging at her , took her by the shoulders and flung her on to her back , his breathing hoarse and his eyes blazing with fury . |
| 21 | Tuppe screwed it up and flung it on to the carpet . |
| 22 | We 're just a few miles away from the Meadowses ’ place , ’ he added , reaching forward to extract a map from the glove compartment , and tossing it on to her lap . |
| 23 | Alejandro and his son all stop horses with five-inch curbs and send them on with spurs about the same length . |
| 24 | We check the statements , file them and send them on to the band along with our commission invoice . |
| 25 | We will select a winner , publish the card in the paper , and send it on to the national finals . |
| 26 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 27 | One of mankind 's first artistic gestures was to cover his hand with charcoal and press it on to a cave wall : ‘ I , man , was here ! ’ |
| 28 | Dampen the edge of the buckram , bring over the seam allowance of the band and press it on to the dampened edge , notching out excess fabric on inward curves . |
| 29 | Perfect pads : save the shoulder pads from your old blouses and dresses and glue them on to coathangers so that newer , delicate clothes do n't tear . |
| 30 | Cut out or draw a picture of Freda and glue it on to the bookmark . |