Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] [adv prt] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I got up on the wall right ? |
| 2 | Oh no you know she 's gon na sort of , sort of suus , so erm , I said oh it 's alright it 's only Eve 's house keeper , and I got back on the phone I said no I 'm every sorry to leave you hanging on I said no I do n't know where she is , I have n't seen her all morning , I have n't seen her at all , and er I said bye then , she said what 's the matter with you she said , I said what do you mean what 's the matter with me , she said oh , why you talking funny ? |
| 3 | And then when the sc , we had a look at the script and we changed it a little bit , and then we all went , they were cutting out words , so we were doing , the first few all three ways , and we 'd look and say , okay , so it was a scrambled mess as we all looked through for three words and ended up with , and I got down on the floor , so we knew where we were . |
| 4 | She laughs and throws the duvet at me , and I sit back on the sofa-bed as she slips out into the hall . |
| 5 | One Sunday Joe and I went out on the marshes , as usual , to study together . |
| 6 | Roger and I hung back on the hill , watching the rest of the party go into a wood . |
| 7 | I went into a toilet and there was none and I sat down on the toilet , looked up , they were all above the door , five of them ! |
| 8 | One night I was up all night with him and I started back on the bottle . |
| 9 | He took the bus , because his parents would n't always drive him to auditions , from Malibu to Santa Monica , 25 miles each way , at the age of thirteen , ‘ and the casting directors would literally take a Polaroid and say thank you very much and you got back on the bus . ’ |
| 10 | The other thing that 's annoying about that is it then forces you into a completely useless small conversation such as : is that so-and-so ? and they say ‘ yes ’ , and you then feel like , they say ‘ yes ’ , as much as to say ‘ Well , why did n't you know that anyway ’ , and then you feel like saying , ‘ Well why did n't you say so ! ’ and you start off on the wrong foot . |
| 11 | Instead slow , silent tears ran down her face , and she lay down on the bed , trying to forget , not to remember . |
| 12 | The quiet click of the latch sounded like a death-knell in the silent room , and she sank down on the bed , her mind and heart devoid of hope . |
| 13 | Robbie 's legs gave way and she sank down on the side of the bed . |
| 14 | Then there was silence and she sat down on the chest , weeping and shaking . |
| 15 | Her long , strong legs folded under her and she sat down on the rug in the hallway and sobbed to her heart 's content , while Alex patted her shoulder and wondered if he really understood his sister at all . |
| 16 | He flung his head to one side and muttered something , his face was twisted up ; he pushed himself away and fell out through the entrance and on to his knees , and she sat down on the floor for her legs felt weak and the wounded one was throbbing painfully , and she crawled over to Sycorax and lay down beside her and sobbed hot , dry grief until she at last fell asleep . |
| 17 | The boat too affected her profoundly ; she had never been on a boat before , except for a rowing boat in the park , and she stood up on the top deck in the bitter grey April wind , and watched the foam and the emptiness and the receding bar of Folkestone , and she thought that she had never seen anything so wonderful in her life . |
| 18 | And we come back on the thirteenth . |
| 19 | because they just go in in the day and they come out on the |
| 20 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 21 | As soon as Paddington arrived Mr Grover made some cocoa and they settled down on the horse hair sofa at the back of the shop . |
| 22 | However , their flight was soon aborted and they settled back on the table . |
| 23 | There are some male here who never develop antlers , they look just like females , and they hang about on the edge of harems , acting like females . |
| 24 | She released him and he fell back on the crumpled bedclothes to stare up at her at first blankly . |
| 25 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 26 | I was milking my goats in the field , and he got down on the ground and put his head near my foot . |
| 27 | He was shadowed everywhere in Sheffield , and he looked back on the experience as his most annoying transfer hid — particularly as it turned out to be one of his rare failures . |
| 28 | The situation became funnier and funnier and he lay back on the bed shaken by deep gasps of laughter . |
| 29 | ‘ That 's it , then , ’ Joe said , and he lay back on the bed with the receiver to his ear and the handset held on his chest . |
| 30 | The fall seemed to bring Liam to his senses and he sat up on the road wondering where he was . |