Example sentences of "[vb past] [coord] [verb] [pron] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent and kissed her lightly on the forehead . |
| 2 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 3 | He sighed and flung himself down on the chair . |
| 4 | The other alternatives were to shoot the plane down before it landed or blow it up on the ground at Teheran airport when all the Imam 's followers had come forward to welcome him . |
| 5 | Chuck Sherman , who had noticed the excited gleam in his young brother 's eyes , grinned and punched him affectionately on the arm as he took the binoculars , but before he could lift them to his eyes a tumult of shouting and screaming broke out suddenly among the throng of Chinese pressing up against the iron grille below them . |
| 6 | tape on the it went and did it again on me now and it 's well and truly gone I 'll have to buy another one . |
| 7 | She laughed and threw herself back on the pillows . |
| 8 | He smiled and touched her gently on the shoulder . |
| 9 | She stretched and propped herself up on an elbow , aware that something was not quite right . |
| 10 | ‘ Thank you , darling , ’ she said and punched me vigorously on the arm to tell me to get lost , though it was half a joke , it 's always half a joke with Dodger . |
| 11 | ‘ He got what he wanted and slammed it down on the counter . |