Example sentences of "and [vb past] on [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could also play a variety of instruments ( and passed on this ability to his children ) and knew songs and melodies which had never been written down — just passed on from ear to ear via generations of Dalesmen . |
| 2 | The huge whorled fingers uncurled and passed on either side of his waist . |
| 3 | It has successfully developed and operated a port at Sheerness in Kent and drew on this experience in deciding to develop a commercial port in the easternmost portion of the old dockyard . |
| 4 | Beginning with scale-derived thirds and sixths , the first nine examples show some fingerings extracted from the scale of A major and played on all string-sets . |
| 5 | The hair was now centrally parted , and crimped on either side of the face . |
| 6 | In her small workroom on the top floor of a crumbling old warehouse in Whitechapel Theresa Arnold shivered and turned on another bar of her portable gas fire . |
| 7 | He rose from the desk and turned on another light in the room . |
| 8 | He was booted off and landed on some fencing , causing great damage to his testicular region . |
| 9 | Leave is not required and notice of appeal must be filed and served on all parties within four weeks of the date on which the order was made . |
| 10 | The fourth and youngest boy , Bramwell Orams , was in the air force from the age of seventeen and flew on many sorties in the Pacific war zone . |
| 11 | The rampart shook under our weight and the ice all over the bog cracked and broke on both sides . |
| 12 | It concentrated on the curriculum and organization of Inner London secondary schools and focused on those pupils who were underachieving , took few or no public examinations and showed their dissatisfaction with school by absenting themselves or by behaving in an uncooperative manner ( ILEA 1984 ) . |
| 13 | Charlemagne fought and worked on several fronts at any one time ; in the military , political and cultural senses . |
| 14 | He went down to the docks to buy a lorryload of timber going cheaply , had the building sandblasted and refitted , and insisted on some adjustment of the merchandise to suit the customer profile . |
| 15 | ‘ I bought it as a deposit on another car and went on this journey for a reason , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Nicky had ( and for all I know still has ) the reputation of being the best criminal defence lawyer at the Scottish bar and had on several occasions persuaded juries to acquit those whom he had every reason to believe were guilty . |
| 17 | Two young Romanians came and stood on either side of me at the mirror . |
| 18 | Stren Withel hesitated hallway to the door as several very large trolls ducked under the doorway and stood on either side of the fat man , blinking in the light . |
| 19 | At first sight it might seem that Urban was hardly in a position to provide it ; he was without military resources of his own , and depended on such allies as he had to defend him against the Emperor Henry IV , who still refused to recognize him as pope . |