Example sentences of "[adv] and [verb] on [art] " in BNC.

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1 They took turns to walk around inside and sit on the bunks and then George left to go home for tea .
2 This was vividly illustrated in one household we visited where the bedroom was so damp that clothes stored in the cupboard had to be removed daily and spread on a clothes-horse in front of the fire to dry out .
3 IN MID-SUMMER , contemplating a day on the beach , Truronians will cast an eye skywards and decide on the instant whether to head for the north coast or the south .
4 Unifying income tax and employees ' National Insurance contributions so that the two taxes are collected and administered together and paid on the same income , whether from earnings , investments , capital gains or perks .
5 I think the main software houses should get together and agree on an industry standard memory configuration to which programmers should limit themselves .
6 Feeling nervous , she clasped her trembling hands together and perched on the edge of the couch , her eyes fixed on the doorway .
7 ‘ You 've never implored in your life , ’ Ruth murmured , resting her wet head on his shirt for a second before pulling away and perching on the edge of the lounger .
8 The scarf came away and fell on the floor , twisted in a multiple S.
9 Ginny managed to take off her coat , put the milk away and turn on the oven before he ran the pad to earth on the table beside his armchair .
10 Jim looked away and focused on the solid glass ashtray on the coffee table .
11 He pulled himself away and sat on the edge of the bed .
12 Then she walked away and sat on the end of her bed .
13 Isabella walked towards camera , turned and walked away and sat on the edge of a chair .
14 He did n't answer , his silence becoming unnerving , and when she examined his features she was dismayed by the bleakness she saw there ; then , with almost cold deliberation , he turned away and sat on the edge of the bed with his back to her .
15 And I went berserk about two nights later and said for god 's sake you 're driving me bonkers , go away and sleep on the sofa .
16 Then the boat lifted away and settled on the far side of the river .
17 A small portion of the scene showing the couple with the cart flaked away and broke on the floor .
18 And I think that 's what a lot of problem with condemned by the G P is is they 're not able to articulate the unhappiness that 's coming from the eating disorder , so they 're told to go away and put on a couple of pounds and because they have n't expressed that feeling the G P ca n't or is n't thinking enough to try and and poke into it a little bit more .
19 It 's so loud some nights I 've got to go downstairs and sleep on the sofa .
20 There 's a pretty powerful body of opinion that thinks Germany and Britain will link up one day soon and turn on the States .
21 Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved
22 on the road to Damascus and saved him , but he did , it was a tremendous surprise to the Apostle Paul that the Lord had saved him at all , he never got over it , he called himself the chief of sinners , but God 's grace , God 's mercy had been revealed to him , you and I when we get to heaven are in for a few surprises , the grace , the mercy of God is far broader and wider than our imagination , we 'll meet a lot of folk there that we did n't expect to see that leads me to a fourth proposition , not only will some be saved that we did not expect to be saved , but it 's clear that others will not be saved who expected to be saved there 's a passage in Luke thirteen , verses twenty five , let me read them again one the head of the house gets up and shuts the door you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open up to us and then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you 're from , then you 'll begin to say we ate and drank in your presence , you taught in our streets , we know you Lord , we rubbed shoulders with you , we went to church , we experience those things , we knew the answers to the re to the questions but he will say I tell you I did not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers those words make it quite clear , here , there 's words of Jesus , there 's references to those who profess , to know the Lord Jesus Christ , but who do not in fact know him at all , they know bits and pieces about him , they 've seen him , you know it 's in its immediate context , they had seen him in the street , they had heard his teaching , there maybe those who had been fed by the , by the miraculous er multiplying of the loafs and the fishes , they had seen the miracle , some of them may have been healed by Jesus , they knew lots about him but they did not know him and he says I do not know you how many folk there are like this , they expect to be saved , perhaps because they go to church , perhaps because they 've got Christian parents , perhaps because they read their bible , perhaps because occasionally when they 're in trouble they prayer , they 've been confirmed , they 've been baptized , that , that they 're good , they 're honest , they 're not rogues , they would n't do a , a , a bad turn to somebody , not deliberately , they 're nice people but they , they do n't know the truth of what it says in God 's word , they do n't know the truth of Romans three and verse twenty because by the works of the Lord no flesh will be justified in his sight for through the law comes the knowledge of sin , does n't come the forgiveness of it , they do n't know the truth of Ephesians chapter two verses eight and nine for by grace you 've been saved through faith and that not of yourselves it 's the gift of God , not as a result of works that no one should boast , for we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared before hand that we should walk in them , they do n't know the truth of er , er of Titus , chapter three and , and verse five where , where the apostle Paul says there , he saved us not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness , but according to his mercy , how tragic it is to expect to be saved , to think you 're going to heaven and in the end to find that you 're not saved and Jesus says they 'll be many like that in that day .
23 They were singing ‘ Forty Years On ’ as a duet , which surprised her so much that she stepped backwards and trod on the toe of the cross young man with whom she had collided that afternoon .
24 She had once explained that slaughtering animals secretly and trading on the black market was simply bending the law a little and not really stealing at all , but real thieves were as bad as liars .
25 Others painted professionally and relied on the sale of works of art to earn a living — these included Thomas Davidson , William Trood , Rupert Dent and John T. Rennie Reid .
26 These programmes are aimed at managers who are operating at Board level , allowing those with the greatest responsibility for strategy and policy the opportunity to refresh their skills , to bring themselves fully up-to-date professionally and to focus on the implications of changes in the commercial and public sector environment for the benefit of their own organisation
27 It also criticized the Department of Transport ( DTp ) for not applying them vigorously and called on the department to widen the scope of inspections and review methods of enforcement .
28 The company began to talk of passing the winter in the south-west , of hiding the pageant in a barn somewhere and over-wintering on the money they had taken .
29 The show gathered momentum quickly and finished on a high that lasted through the party held afterwards at the neighbouring Holiday Inn .
30 A girl who 's managed to stay alive for a whole year takes me aside and passes on the two basic rules of survival : 1 ) Never get separated from the others .
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