Example sentences of "and [vb past] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 2 | After that , the days were marked by the offerings they took and laid on the stone , more cigarettes until their father began to suspect Mrs Turner who cleaned the house , fruit from the garden , a punnet of redcurrants which disappeared from the small basket . |
| 3 | For a few brief moments he reared and plunged on the bed , grunting like an animal , until his lust emptied itself into her . |
| 4 | This year he returned in April , in peak form , and succeeded on the climb after seven days of attempts spread over two weeks . |
| 5 | Right-wing readers of a right-wing paper were more likely than left-wing readers of that same paper to claim that their paper was biased towards the right — though a majority of both left- and right-wing readers typically agreed that their papers were biased and agreed on the direction of that bias . |
| 6 | The plane had dipped wildly down on its left wing and skidded on the runway with only one wheel in contact with the ground . |
| 7 | Sugar grains crunched and gritted on the table beneath it . |
| 8 | Forcefully , she blew two thick streams of smoke down her nose and passed on the joint . |
| 9 | From then onwards we cut full-size wallpaper blocks faced with lino and passed on the blocks to Coles who printed and sold the designs . ’ |
| 10 | From this point of view , which could make no place for miracles understood as cases of divine , supernatural interference with the laws of nature , reports of alleged miracles could only be regarded as evidence of credulity and ignorance on the part of those who originated and passed on the stories . |
| 11 | Gavin Dalzell of Lesmahagow copied his machine in 1846 and passed on the details to so many people that for more than fifty years he was generally regarded as the inventor of the bicycle . |
| 12 | Elliott called Fort Shafter at 0706hrs and passed on the information to the duty officer , Lt Tyler . |
| 13 | Coleridge 's friend , Thomas de Quincey , wrote his own Gothic novel , Klosterheim , and passed on the infection to James Hogg ( 1770–1835 ) , who , in The Confessions of , a Justified Sinner , borrowed the spectre of the Brocken and installed it at Arthur 's Seat , near Edinburgh . |
| 14 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 15 | She was the daughter of an old and scholarly man ( whom Alice thought to be about ninety-five ) and lived on the outskirts of Flaxthorpe . |
| 16 | Although he married into one of the long-established British families and lived on the island for so long , Dr Grabham still bemoaned the exclusiveness of the British in Madeira and said he always felt like an outsider . |
| 17 | I slammed the file shut and got on the blower right away . |
| 18 | It was eight o'clock when we arrived at the station and got on the train , and by half-past nine we were in Strelsau . |
| 19 | After breakfast we left the inn and got on the track , which , with care , need not be lost sight of in good weather , except in haze or severe rain , when there is danger at one or two places , where a ceaseless flow of moisture over a rich soil keeps the grass so green and the ground so soft , no path is traceable now and again . |
| 20 | I could n't stand any more , so I locked myself in my bedroom and in the morning I went to Newhaven and got on the boat . |
| 21 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 22 | What he pulled out and flung on the bed were garments of his own : a thick jacket and breeches and boots . |
| 23 | On 3 June last the painting was badly slashed in five places when it fell from the wall and caught on the scaffolding used by the restorers ( see The Art Newspaper No.20 , July-September 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 24 | He finished his coffee , and knelt on the bed to kiss her deeply and lingeringly . |
| 25 | After I had seen her , I visited the church and found on the altar a candle bearing the arms of the Cathedral on its base . |
| 26 | And stopped on the way of course in . |
| 27 | We cleared the trees and stopped on the brow of a small hill which fell down to snow-covered fields , broken here and there by small copses and woods . |
| 28 | Yesterday , that ‘ ordinariness ’ was still to the fore , as she pruned shrubs in her Norfolk garden and mused on the task ahead . |
| 29 | Mark and I agreed to have a game together soon and I moved off down the course , and mused on the ways in which the pro golfers cope in their different ways with the unusual demands of the pro-am . |
| 30 | Just after the despatch of the circular to provincial governors A. I. Levshin , the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs , began compiling a historical memorandum on serfdom which reviewed 200 years of legislation on the subject and drew on the documents generated by Nicholas I 's secret committees . |