Example sentences of "and [vb past] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a warm and friendly night , and the sea swished and whispered on the sand . |
| 2 | Visiting yachts can be taken out of the water by the club 's ten ton crane and wintered on the hard or in the shed . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For a few brief moments he reared and plunged on the bed , grunting like an animal , until his lust emptied itself into her . |
| 5 | This year he returned in April , in peak form , and succeeded on the climb after seven days of attempts spread over two weeks . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On Nov. 23-25 representatives of France and Indonesia , as co-chairs of the PICC , met with the other four permanent members of the UN Security Council in Paris and agreed on the final draft of the Cambodian peace settlement . |
| 8 | The plane had dipped wildly down on its left wing and skidded on the runway with only one wheel in contact with the ground . |
| 9 | Sugar grains crunched and gritted on the table beneath it . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Forcefully , she blew two thick streams of smoke down her nose and passed on the joint . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Elliott called Fort Shafter at 0706hrs and passed on the information to the duty officer , Lt Tyler . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 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 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Before them stretched a tunnel of darkness , broken only by the beam of light that flashed over tree trunks and gleamed on the gracefully curving fronds of ferns . |
| 20 | The light shone on to his upturned face and gleamed on the burnished flanks of the mare who blew through her nose impatiently as though to ask what they were waiting for . |
| 21 | When the sunbeams struck into his room through the rustling blinds , and quivered on the opposite wall like golden water , he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful ( 3 ) . |
| 22 | Sentences ( 2 ) and ( 3 ) illustrate the point : ( 2 ) He lay there listening to the noises not caring how time went but watching it and watching everything … ( 3 ) When the sunbeams struck into his room and quivered on the opposite wall through the rustling blinds like golden water he knew that evening was coming on , and that the sky was red and beautiful . |
| 23 | I slammed the file shut and got on the blower right away . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 29 | Well y it always used to be stowed down at , come from er Sprawton and stowed on the dock , |
| 30 | What he pulled out and flung on the bed were garments of his own : a thick jacket and breeches and boots . |