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Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea .
2	This was vividly illustrated in one household we visited where the bedroom was so damp that clothes stored in the cupboard had to be removed daily and spread on a clothes-horse in front of the fire to dry out .
3	IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south .
4	Two minutes later , a truly magnificent swan , as white as snow , came swooping in and landed on a branch nearby .
5	All the windows were broken and came in and landed on the people working . ’
6	Before anyone goes in and sits on the dentist 's chair which forms the centrepiece of the cage , Dr Tydeman will first monitor them using some external equipment .
7	Every kind of wonderful bird was flying in and perching on the branches of the great tree , and as soon as one landed a Minpin would climb onto its back and off they would go .
8	Sister Cooney came in and snapped on the light .
9	For instance to er to put in this lottery , and put in the new system that we just converted , recently , a couple of days ago err takes tens and tens of millions of millions of dollars , and most companies who come in and work on a percentage of sales , do n't get their capital investment back until several years into the contract .
10	It ill becomes a foreigner to look in and pontificate on a short visit but it seemed to me that Australia as a rich country had given them only material goods , which merely sapped their self-sufficiency and their self-respect .
11	Down on the dark grey beach there was a collection of glaucous gulls and a few purple sandpipers , and then to my delight a snow white ivory gull flew in and settled on the shingle , giving me the chance to stalk and photograph one of the world 's rarer gulls .
12	but I never pushed in and stood on the stage , look I 've done all this !
13	He said that unless Niki gave in and raced on the terms offered , he was going to go with Keke the following year .
14	‘ A monkey came in and perched on a table .
15	Jamie came in and sat on the couch next to my chair .
16	Anne reached in and turned on the lights .
17	A third-year nurse came in and turned on the radio .
18	Knocker 's bored looking battered features brightened as Yanto walked in and leaned on the well used but polished bar .
19	Later Beatrice was carried in and laid on the sofa , sobered by the experience , her breasts daubed in blood .
20	Then he swooped down and landed on a road near Varadero Beach , right in the middle of evening rush-hour traffic .
21	Don Mini gave a signal and in five seconds Swan swooped down and landed on the tree .
22	Well , no the other day he said if I 'm really that bad you just tell me and I 'll go down and sleep on the sofa .
23	Margaret Stanhope put down the telephone , stood up , smoothed her tight skirt down and knocked on the door next to her desk .
24	Yes , I do n't like to go down and knock on the door really .
25	The kids from the houses up there- ’ she waved her arm in the direction of home — ‘ will come and play on the grass-the old people from the council place will come pottering down and sit on the benches by the flowerbeds .
26	She 's like , she 's like tearing the wall down and collapsing on the floor with hysterics .
27	They hailed down and clinked on the ramparts .
28	You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back .
29	I stepped down and sat on the thwart opposite to him .
30	Folly put the phone down and sat on the bed , looking round the poky little hotel room that was all she could afford while she searched for more permanent accommodation .