Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horse had barely stepped on to the gravelly riverbed at the edge of the ford when it stumbled , almost falling to its knees . |
| 2 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 3 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 4 | Yet the substance had only gone on to the Jockey Club 's list of prohibited substances a mere ten months before Aliysa failed her dope test . |
| 5 | The usurper 's army had indeed proceeded on down Annandale , almost certainly to link up with another large Galloway force collected by Sir Walter Comyn and Henry Balliol , Edward 's brother , from their estates in that province , many thousands strong , the reason why Sir Archibald had not risked coming on to Edinburgh . |
| 6 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |