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Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	You have been patient and you have worked hard , and I fear on many occasions late into the night I 'm sure , you have proved adaptable and er you have been good-tempered .
2	A private internal affair needed resolving , and I went on that review group , I was prepared to do all that I could to resolve it .
3	He told Orchard , who had tickled and spanked the girl after enticing her to his flat : ‘ The prosecution accept , and I proceed on this basis , that your motive here was in no way sexual .
4	I feel er something of a stranger walking in on the Maastricht reunion er annual dinner er at the er I have to say that erm I er would n't wish to cross swords with the honourable gentleman on the detail of the Maastricht bill but certainly but certainly I 'ave to say that for many people and maybe even some people on this own side who may be prepared to admit it , the false divide between Euro sceptics and Euro fanatics is one that does n't appeal to the new generations of members and I suspect on both sides of the house , we are in our considered view in Europe and we need to make the best of it and treat Europe on its merits rather than re-live the battles of the er late seventies and early eighties .
5	I 'm a singer and I have on several occasions sung at male only Burns suppers which means you get wheeled in after the meal is over , and then wheeled out again after that , which does n't worry me at all
6	Now if you knew which numbers were selected less frequently than others , and you kept that information to yourself and you bet on those numbers that were selected less frequently , then unless there 's any special reason why those numbers should produce fewer score draws than other numbers , you 're giving yourself an advantage because on the weeks in which those numbers produce score draws there are fewer people who 'll have them down as their numbers , and so there 's more money around for those few people who have them down , including you , and so if you win , then you 'd expect to win more money .
7	and you know on that Robin Hood one
8	Then she grabs the waistband of my trousers and tugs , and a button pops across the room , and she yanks on that zip like it ai n't gon na be needed any more and she slips her hand inside my pants .
9	And we got on this subject .
10	And we had on these shoes you know .
11	The model is easiest to analyse where ( i.e. , the firm ignores the indirect effect ) and we concentrate on this case .
12	And we worked on this contract for two month , to try it out for him but we were thirty pound a week less , and we had over two hundred slates a day more , on the on this contract .
13	I like him for being a rebel , and we agree on several issues , although I am not sure I would go along with some of his proposals to abolish the monarchy and the House of Lords .
14	We happened on some good 'uns , and we happened on some sort of funny ones when we goo round .
15	Allen drove a long stick through the heron and they sat on either side of the fire , turning the spit as they talked .
16	They had unwound their arms from round each other , and they sat on either side of the small table , held by brackets to the bulkhead .
17	And he got up and he got on another bed !
18	He was vice-president of the Royal College of Pathologists and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and he served on many university and Health Service committees as chairman .
19	Erm he goes round the pubs and he agitates on these lads .
20	He let me go up and made me sit on the divan and he put on some music and turned out the lights and the moon came through the window .
21	See she still brings that dog up the school and it says on that paper you know no dogs allowed in the school .
22	But it 's rare and it depends on all kinds of things — like how mature you both are , how much experience of relationships you have and how well you could cope with time spent apart .