Example sentences of "[pron] and [verb] [adv prt] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 2 | I moved to one side with Jamie helping me and went down on my hands and knees on a comparatively clean part of the concrete where the oil stains looked old . |
| 3 | He stopped a little way away from me and fell down on the grass and hid his face in his arms . |
| 4 | He rolls off me and passes out on the pillow , the smell of his drunkenness lingering like something live . |
| 5 | Letting out a shriek , she races towards them and thumps down on the ground . |
| 6 | They analysed it and found that it was mud , a piece of clay , y'know , but them not being all-forgiving , they suspected that I was using drugs , y'know , so they kicked me out of home and I went to live with my grandmother and then I had more freedom there to do as I pleased and hence started going to pop festivals and things and enjoying them and getting off on them and mixing with that whole subculture if you like . |
| 7 | Your partner kneels in front of you and presses down on your knees . |
| 8 | " I ca n't just drop everything and go off on a picnic . " |
| 9 | Fleury tripped over something and sat down on the floor while the sepoy worked his shoulders a little to loosen himself up for a swipe . |
| 10 | She hesitated , then placed her hand on his arm to detain him and reached up on tiptoe to kiss his papier-mâché cheek . |
| 11 | Jake gathered her to him and rolled over on his back , so that she was lying on her stomach on top of him . |
| 12 | You see when Steve used to erm come down to Selby I mean there were , there were occasions when I used to go into the college with him and sit in on some of his interviews . |
| 13 | I reach over to him and press down on his arms . |
| 14 | They had reached the door of his room now and , as Harry opened it , Madeleine went past him and sat down on the edge of his old brass bedstead . |
| 15 | Nevertheless she thought it best to humour him and sat down on the side of the table away from him and put her clasped hands on its polished top . |
| 16 | He held him down one-handed , smiling at his heavings and pantings as he struggled to break free ; but as soon as he tossed the straining wrists away from him and sat back on his heel to rise , Harry made a furious lunge for the hilt of the dagger Isambard himself had disdained to draw . |
| 17 | Blunt , coming up behind him and hauling back on the control column to get his plane over the hedge , saw Peacock sliding out of the sky and tried to turn inside him . |
| 18 | The cat gradually made friends with her and became extremely loving , sleeping on her bed and following her everywhere , rubbing against her and jumping up on her lap . |
| 19 | She gulped down the Martini offered to her and sat down on the sofa by Penelope , who edged away into her corner , recognising in Robina Fairfax 's shapeless grey woollen dress and strings of painted wooden beads the kind of woman she sometimes met at her landlady 's ‘ evenings ’ . |
| 20 | When fitzAlan stepped away from her and sat down on a nearby chair , hooking one booted foot over his knee and regarding her with grimly assessing eyes , her mind was clear once more , ready with the plan Matilda had outlined . |
| 21 | A good agency interviewer will look through it and pick up on the same gaps and discrepancies which will appear to the job interviewer but will not be looking with any one particular job in mind . |
| 22 | He dropped the diary into the drawer , closed it and fell back on the pillows . |
| 23 | ‘ When the show started everybody jumped on it and picked up on the things that were n't working . |
| 24 | It was a long haul with my heavy bag to the bus stop at the top of town next day , but I made it and set out on a bus journey westward from Roscommon to Galway . |