Example sentences of "and [noun] [adv] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a millennium or so the Bugis have followed the monsoon trading cycle — surging east on the west monsoon all the way to Aru , at the forbidding lip of New Guinea 's swamps , and west again on the east monsoon beyond Borneo all the way to Sumatra . |
| 2 | The creator god Khnum is often depicted modelling man and Ka together on his potter 's wheel as through the Ka was a double of clone . |
| 3 | She said if I used Head and Shoulders now on this it would revert back because it has such a sa a strong P H balance in Head and Shoulders it has the same effect as reversing it . |
| 4 | When breakfast was finished the Foley boys placed their plates and cutlery neatly on the hatch into the kitchen before going to the big room where all their coats , boots , shoes , school bags and often rugby gear had to be left . |
| 5 | Extra-sensitive radars are continually detecting not only tensions among countries and peoples anywhere on Earth , but also the smallest disputes among friends , or even among parents and children . |
| 6 | Look out for the superb new range of dryers and stylers now on the shelves in major Marks and Spencers stores . |
| 7 | No. 2 shows strings only on the top line and wind only on the lower line . |
| 8 | There is a vast choice of discos , bars and restaurants practically on your doorstep ; it 's only a 100 metres walk to the main avenue of the bustling resort and a variety of discos and bars surround the hotel . |
| 9 | you 'll also find a host of inviting bars and restaurants practically on the doorstep of your hotel ; try for example the Shangri-La for a Chinese meal , or Shere-Kahn for delicious Indian cuisine . |
| 10 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 11 | The appointment of fresh Designers to the series finally broke the ping-pong philosophy that had so threatened to trap Newbery and Cusick forever on the Doctor Who treadmill . |
| 12 | They decided to make piezonuclear fusion their primary aim with detection of gamma rays ( by a sodium iodide detector ) and neutrons both on the menu . |
| 13 | There was a flourish of the saxophone , a twirl and a curtsy from Rose , a rise and a bow from Bernie and a scatter of faint applause from what seemed a very distant audience , and then there were Rose and Bernie almost on top of her , snarling at each other about something , going off into the darkened wings arguing at the top of their voices . |
| 14 | Richmond and Hounslow , who with great ingenuity produced tea and cakes right on time with the aid of one small electric kettle and several ‘ commandeered ’ thermos flasks ! |
| 15 | ‘ Man and girl alone on a boat . |
| 16 | Well , she decided at last , if Adam does n't turn up tomorrow I 'll go and look for him and Jake again on Starr Hills . |
| 17 | Mothers who dreamed fondly of a white wedding , a handsome bridegroom and grandchildren soon on the scene , may find that their daughter is planning to marry a man her father 's age , who has an ex-wife and some teenage children of his own . |
| 18 | Among the lucky anglers were Paul McGivern , Belfast , with one of 10lbs on a Garry Dog Tube Fly ; Denis Brennan , Cookstown , one of 12lbs on a Red Shrimp and Billy Ray , Belfast , who took a nice brace at 12lbs and 8lbs also on the shrimp . |
| 19 | Drew had denied that the clothing had been cleaned there and insisted that he had sent it to the cleaners in Swansea and Rochdale previously on the tour . |
| 20 | The impression is very strong that Raedwald was dead by now and Eadwine well on his way to establishing a dominant position amongst the Angles . |
| 21 | The core engine of the product has been designed for scaleability , flexibility , robustness , speed and CICS compatibility as well as integration with Micro Focus Dialog System and non-CICS applications , the company says , adding that it provides a high level of data integrity and security either on stand-alone workstations or as part of a client-server environment , and is available in both production and development versions . |
| 22 | The core engine of the product has been designed for scalability , flexibility , robustness , speed and CICS compatibility as well as integration with Micro Focus Dialog System and non-CICS applications , the company says , adding that it provides a high level of data integrity and security either on stand-alone workstations or as part of a client-server environment , and is available in both production and development versions . |
| 23 | I flew to Gibraltar on 19 December 1974 , and met up with Mick and Paddy , who had taken the Land Rover , wheelbarrow and kit there on a munitions ship . |
| 24 | Labour trade spokesman Robin Cook said : ‘ An interest rate rise would be a terminal blow to home owners and factories low on orders . ’ |
| 25 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 26 | Would I be prepared to participate in an open air service that would bring Protestants and Catholics together on the peace-line ? |
| 27 | Dwell for a few moments on these words of Paul , and when you have a moment of quiet use the prayer that follows , either in your own words or as it stands , as a way of bringing to God your thoughts and feelings both on what you have discovered through these pages , and any particular concerns you may have at this present moment . |
| 28 | Hence , a sequence of shots might be : mother and toddler together on sands , toddler crawls out of picture leaving mother watching to see where it goes cut ; an older child digging a sand castle cut ; closer shot of mother looking out of picture in opposite direction , turns to look back in direction of off-frame toddler , cut from her to toddler who is now well on way to the sea cut ; father getting to his feet to go after child , pan with him as he sets off and catches up with the wanderer , they start to walk back to mother cut ; the older child carries on with its castle-digging ( see pages 62–63 ) . |
| 29 | Do n't tell me the doctor does n't have sherry and stuff regularly on tap in the house . ’ |
| 30 | There is a one-day familiarisation course during which they are introduced to their supervisors , other staff members and postgraduates already on the course . |