Example sentences of "and they [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train joggled and they fell on the seat , clasped together . |
| 2 | Yeah , something stupid , and they knocked on the door , do you know what I mean , the most kids it 's like , it 's hiya Matthew , hi aunty , they knock on the door , I want to play with Hannah , I want to play with Matthew , Mat has , Mat has got to go out and play with them , and it 's my Milky Bar you ca n't not can I have one of your sweets Mat , my mother said I , I can have one of those sweets . |
| 3 | K : ‘ The evenings are a very special time but I ca n't take Chloe to the park because there is a hostel for down-and-outs by it and they sit on the park benches drinking and shouting abuse . |
| 4 | All three have been members of Middlesbrough council since it was formed in 1974 and they served on the authorities which preceded it . |
| 5 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 6 | He bought her doughnuts and cans of Carlsberg Special , and they picnicked on the pavement and he sang to her . |
| 7 | It was a warm day , one of the best that summer , and they ate on the terrace . |
| 8 | The story goes that it was a very merry party — maybe they were celebrating being able to get in the hay after a bad spell — and they stepped on the bridge to enjoy some music , a very Tallentire thing to do . |
| 9 | In patients C , E , and F with high values in the test it was difficult to control the infection and they died on the second , 134th , and 95th day after operation respectively . |
| 10 | And they listened on the telephone from Nottingham did n't even mention it ! |
| 11 | Presumably there are factors that control the size , and they depend on the population density . |
| 12 | They seem to ignore the caves in their tank and they lie on the open gravel at night . |
| 13 | Mungo accepted and they sat on the bed . |
| 14 | He fired up the gas logs to supplement the background heating and they sat on the Chesterfield . |
| 15 | But more than 2000 were made and they appear on the second hand market from time to time . |
| 16 | He called a convocation of the greatest High Elf Mages and they assembled on the Isle of the Dead to begin the great ritual . |
| 17 | I turned our closed circuit cameras onto the flag-wavers and they appeared on the huge screens above the stage . |
| 18 | They get to work , it started off one of these days did n't it so the lift 's out of order and they work on the top floor , so they 've now got to run up all those stairs , the energy is being used up . |
| 19 | It resisted for a moment , then swung completely open , and they stood on the threshold , goggling in . |
| 20 | It was raining and they travelled on the bus in silence . |