Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 2 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 3 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 4 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 5 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 6 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 7 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 8 | These were chapels which did not have the coming-and-going of suburban churches where people sought out the latest new preacher or moved on once their income increased . |
| 9 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 10 | She only had about fifty pence left from the money she had borrowed from her stepfather the day before , but she hoped that the young Italian barman , who fancied her , had not yet been sacked or moved on and would give her a margarita , free . |
| 11 | On occasions like these , friends of Burton reported , he would counter-attack by releasing his temper , tearing up the room and making it quite clear and genuinely credible that whatever they did , said or tried on he would do just whatever he wanted . |
| 12 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 13 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 14 | Rosenthal scored seven goals for the Reds last season in 36 appearances , although in many of those games he was either substituted or came on . |
| 15 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 16 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 17 | The lamp could be hooked onto the front of a miner 's cap or hung on a wooden roof support while he was working . |
| 18 | You can work with any size of mirror , from minute to enormous , and it can be free-standing to sit on top of a dressing table or hung on a wall , as shown in the photograph on the opposite page . |
| 19 | Alternatively , buy folding chairs that could either be put away in , say , a hall cupboard and taken out when needed , or hung on a wall . |
| 20 | Bags of string , bottle tops , cylinders , etc. can be added to the basic shape — either tacked on with nails or glued on later . |
| 21 | If this light is modulated , or switched on and off to create pulses , an optical fibre can carry audio and video signals just like a coaxial cable . |
| 22 | In both methods the light source is either varied in intensity , as an analogue of the signal , or switched on and off in digital code . |
| 23 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 24 | This can be difficult because the consumer has no means of knowing what goes on ( or went on ) in the factory . |
| 25 | This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs . |
| 26 | turned or waited on |
| 27 | Loss or damage to personal effects and baggage taken , sent in advance or purchased on holiday ( including clothing and personal effects worn or carried on the person , trunks , suitcases and like receptacles ) . |
| 28 | If the theatre is a long distance away from the ward , equipment may be taken from the ward on a post-operative tray or carried on the theatre trolley . |
| 29 | The petition must state : ( i ) the debtor 's name , address and occupation ( if any ) ; ( ii ) the name in which the debtor carried on business if other than his own name and if the business is carried on jointly with others ; ( iii ) the nature and address of the debtor 's business ; ( iv ) the name in which the debtor carried on business when the debt was incurred ; ( v ) the address at which the debtor resided or carried on business at or after that time and the nature of that business . |
| 30 | All to be humped or carried on one 's back |