Example sentences of "[adv] and [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | We smoked the chillim together and continued on our separate ways . |
| 2 | The two girls sometimes exercised the horses together and seemed on amiable terms . |
| 3 | She pulled the thin green curtains together and sat on her bed . |
| 4 | The scarf came away and fell on the floor , twisted in a multiple S. |
| 5 | Artemis just stared at her , then bobbing a curtsey , turned away and continued on her interrupted progress . |
| 6 | Then , when Hyde thought the driver was beginning to suspect something , he sent the taxicab away and continued on foot . |
| 7 | Jim looked away and focused on the solid glass ashtray on the coffee table . |
| 8 | He pulled himself away and sat on the edge of the bed . |
| 9 | Then she walked away and sat on the end of her bed . |
| 10 | Isabella walked towards camera , turned and walked away and sat on the edge of a chair . |
| 11 | He did n't answer , his silence becoming unnerving , and when she examined his features she was dismayed by the bleakness she saw there ; then , with almost cold deliberation , he turned away and sat on the edge of the bed with his back to her . |
| 12 | A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor . |
| 13 | Quite a crowd of people had gathered on the quay , but they were well behaved and they allowed ample room for the Wheel to be dragged ashore and stood on its rims . |
| 14 | Daffy was going downstairs and slipped on one of the steps . |
| 15 | Daffy was going downstairs and slipped on one of the steps . |
| 16 | Mr Gatenby 's addiction had started with one phone call because , he said , he was unsettled , did not mix easily and lived on his own . |
| 17 | They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon . |
| 18 | I went upstairs uneasily and knocked on his door . |
| 19 | Zeinab , alarmed at herself , backed off a little and insisted on maintaining an independent life while she was working out how to handle all this . |
| 20 | When I first left home and lived on my own , I gorged myself on an endless round of late night parties and visits to newly-found friends which lasted until the early hours of the morning . |
| 21 | Kelly had driven straight home and embarked on her own investigation . |
| 22 | I got up early and worked on the farm . |
| 23 | Greig , characteristically , decided differently and insisted on playing on ; two more wickets fell and the match finally ended at 241 for 6 when , with only three balls left , a win became impossible . |
| 24 | Rincewind swayed back as a wildly thrown stool sailed past and smashed on the far side of the street . |
| 25 | ‘ … until Dr Greene told her he 'd decided to deliver , then she perked up immediately and insisted on an epidural so that Bill could be there and she could see the baby straight away . ’ |
| 26 | Quite a long time I would have start probably with more than thirty years ago , because me Mum always make cheese and I just thought making when I was still a girl at the school and since we came here and farmed on me own behalf well twenty six years we 've been making cheeses here . |
| 27 | In the process he was trying to turn and give the ball back to his own team and he fell awkwardly and landed on his head and twisted his head under his body . |
| 28 | I went out there and ran on their terms . |
| 29 | When at last he got there and knocked on the door with a sticky bottle of claret , a stranger let him in . |
| 30 | Moran was there and smiled on her and spoke . |