Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have I said something , then ? ’ he asked , taking off his cap and overcoat and hanging them on the door peg . |
| 2 | ‘ Like some coffee ? ’ said Wilcox , taking her coat and hanging it on the back of the door . |
| 3 | Then one morning I did not go early for my paper , and seeing it on the mat Cedric brought it to me . |
| 4 | Like tying a bottle on the door and sticking it on the window and knock the door and they had to come , crash the bottle would go . |
| 5 | After a quick wash she dragged on an old pair of jeans and an equally ancient navy sweater before emptying the bucket and replacing it on the dresser . |
| 6 | Eventually Don grappled with the critical section , and with a quick windmill of arms and legs was up and establishing himself on the next stance . |
| 7 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 8 | I remember boiling the milk and pouring it on the tea leaves . |
| 9 | Walter made quite a business from stealing rationed food from the grocer he worked for and selling it on the black market , while Theo dealt mostly in men 's clothes which he shifted on to a second-hand dealer who paid ready cash . |
| 10 | Would you say that cutting meat and getting it on the shelf every day , takes your department forward ? |
| 11 | Trrrrrrrrrrrrrfffaow ! ’ and kicking it on the run , blasting a dirty fountain of sand and jelly up and around mc . |
| 12 | Turning to Omi , skilfully bringing her into the conversation , and complimenting her on the way the venison had been cooked . |
| 13 | With the collapse of the Leveller movement in 1649 Chidley turned his energies to building a separatist congregation in London , promoting social reform , and enriching himself on the spoils of revolution . |
| 14 | ‘ I was , ’ he told her , snatching the blanket from his shoulder and spreading it on the ground . |
| 15 | ‘ Daddy , darling , ’ Alyssia said , smiling genuinely for the first time since she had stepped foot back on to English soil and kissing him on the tip of his nose , ‘ in your own cantankerous way , you 've put your finger right on the button . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ She will , ’ said the Sheikh , rising to greet his mother and kissing her on the forehead , the kiss of respect , of the younger for the elder . |
| 17 | They 're trying to pick it off and doing it on the big grass . |
| 18 | ‘ I am sorry to hear it , ’ said Theda , dragging her attention back and focusing it on the lady . |
| 19 | But , as a spokesman for the UN 's International Maritime Organisation said ‘ there 's nothing to stop a tanker 's skipper dumping oil and blaming it on the war ’ . |
| 20 | And joining me on the journey was a never-ending line of lumbering construction plant , Brobdingnagian concrete-mixers , and juggernauts laden with rocks and sand . |
| 21 | It 's ten minutes past nine and joining us on the line this morning is er Judy in York good morning Judy . |
| 22 | Its sudden reappearance , a product of the uncertain economic times in Eastern Europe , at first seemed easily explained , but whether it was wartime booty or a token of gratitude , whether a museum who may or may not have owned it wanted it back or not , whether it was legally correct or amoral , by putting it up for auction ( and illustrating it on the catalogue cover ) Sotheby 's assured themselves of one thing : whatever they did would be wrong . |
| 23 | They started doing ‘ breakdown ’ [ lifting the boys above their heads and dropping them on the ground ] . |
| 24 | She kept walking round her box , sighing , and picking bits out of her haynet and dropping them on the floor . |
| 25 | the notion of getting hold of a sort of re a perceived object and dropping it on the floor and watching it split into it 's component parts is quite appealing If you take a , if you imagine , you could take an object that you 're perceiving , yes ? |
| 26 | I fell asleep and remember him lifting me off and putting me on the settee cushion but I 'd had a tiring evening and hardly stirred . |
| 27 | By resorting to guns , even toy ones , are the Lithuanians forfeiting the rights of democrats and putting themselves on the same level as the Soviet troops ? |
| 28 | ‘ I have n't the faintest , ’ said Shirley , taking off her outdoor shoes and putting them on the rack , putting on her indoor slippers , and guiltily , belatedly , bending down to wipe the shoe marks off the linoleum with spit and hanky . |
| 29 | ‘ And there 's some shortbread and chocolates and a jar of chicken breasts , ’ she said , taking them out of the basket and putting them on the table . |
| 30 | Mrs Foster bobbed about collecting the items and putting them on the counter . |