Example sentences of "[vb pp] and [verb] [pron] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Periodically we had lifted and turned them on the banks , where the sun and wind had shrunk and hardened them . |
| 2 | We had seen and sensed them on our way up , their tentative postures , their unanimity of hesitation . |
| 3 | He dreamed the actual execution , including his head being separated from his body , and then abruptly woke up to find that his bed headboard had fallen and struck him on the back of the neck in the same place as the guillotine in the dream . |
| 4 | So it 's floated and knitted it on the back . |
| 5 | She let the stranger touch her for a minute , and then the woman bent and kissed her on the cheek . |
| 6 | Preston , at the mouth of the River Ribble , lay roughly halfway between Lancaster and Warrington , and Forster 's horsemen reached and occupied it on 9 November , to be followed a day later by the slower-moving infantry . |
| 7 | Then , when he sought to take the oath , the House itself refused and excluded him on the dubious ground that , being an atheist , he could not swear . |
| 8 | His wife , who was alleged to have aided and abetted him on the second occasion was jailed for three years after a two-day trial . |