Example sentences of "and [verb] to [noun sg] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 2 | I do not think this experience is confined to women , but it symbolizes something of the quality of the Great Mother , and it shows how we have the ability to conceive and carry to birth on a level other than the physical . |
| 3 | They let them slide around on the polished floor and listen to music on the ward radio . |
| 4 | This is because speakers of these German dialects look to German as their standard language , read and write in German and listen to German on radio and television . |
| 5 | The offence took place between July 15 — the day Rachel , 23 , was sexually assaulted and stabbed to death on the common in front of her three-year-old son — and July 24 . |
| 6 | He mentioned the ‘ war games ’ : such as the capturing of a fire-engine ; the cutting of telephone wires ; the jape of climbing unseen into a baker 's van and reconnoitring the town as the baker innocently made his rounds ; and penetrating the docks and going to sleep on a submarine . |
| 7 | She found a spanner and set to work on the bike . |
| 8 | I took my make-up out of my bag , leaned close to the mirror and set to work on my face . |
| 9 | Our first winner was Debbie Moseley and when Debbie told the guys at Feature You she would like to do modelling but thought she was n't good enough , they decided to prove her wrong and set to work on a dramatic transformation . |
| 10 | He glanced around , then took a nail file from his pocket and set to work on the padlock . |
| 11 | When they had done her back , they turned her over and set to work on her front . |
| 12 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 13 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 14 | Minton took him upstairs to his studio , where his portrait of Nevile Wallis was in progress , and set to work on a small canvas . |
| 15 | She sat down and set to work on the files . |
| 16 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 17 | Er , those in favour of the amendment standing in the name of Councillor and submitted to Council on the twenty third of April ? |
| 18 | Orlando Azcué Rodriguez was arrested on 5 April 1990 in Havana and brought to trial on 12 October on charges of making ‘ enemy propaganda ’ . |
| 19 | The Observer commented that ‘ apparently network controller Michael Green thinks books are well enough covered in programmes such as ‘ Kaleidoscope ’ and ‘ Nightwaves ’ , and plugged to death on Melvyn Bragg 's ‘ start the Week ’ ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I do my housework , and look after Matthew , and go to church on Sunday . |
| 21 | He tidied up , damped the fire down , undressed down to his underwear , took a cushion from the armchair to use as a pillow , used his overcoat to cover himself and went to sleep on the rug beside the hearth . |
| 22 | I turned it over to the studio and went to work on The Roots of Heaven , and apparently John Wayne took over after I left . |
| 23 | I put the pressure-cooker back and went to bed on the sofa . |
| 24 | When the stockings were completed they were both wide and long and shrunk to size on wooden boards . |
| 25 | One 3OOkg false killer whale , after hours of being teased and tortured , had its throat cut and bled to death on the dock . |
| 26 | As for Mrs Dunstaple , she was so distraught that she no longer knew what she was doing and had been taken away , given a composing draught surreptitiously obtained from Dr McNab , and put to bed on her shelf in the pantry . |
| 27 | By 4 am Gary Humphreys was dead , having suffered a broken jaw and choked to death on his own blood . |
| 28 | ‘ Because Hatton gets scared or fed-up and threatens to rat on him . |
| 29 | It was reminiscent of one of those terrifying cases in which a hospital porter appears in court after donning a white coat , insinuating himself into the operating theatre , and setting to work on an appendix . |
| 30 | One might question which was the more interesting achievement — to start with nothing , as Gandhi did , and rise to power on the strength of personal reputation , or to start with everything , as Irwin did , and do the same . |