Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was n't any ground or anything to walk on at the end ! |
| 2 | Like Ricky and me clinging on to the past , thought Daisy . |
| 3 | She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy . |
| 4 | The sleeping-car attendant sighed deeply at so much opulent femininity and philosophically returned to his roomette , and I went on up the train into the next car , where my own bed lay . |
| 5 | And I come on to the mi middle |
| 6 | On the last point that Les makes , I want to ensure him about this ; that when Horton run that boat business , that was a water-based business , it ran on the basis there were floats in the river and you stepped on to the float and you got onto a boat . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm going to cry until I 'm ill ! ’ and she dropped on to the floor , her shoulders shaking and the tears rolling down her face . |
| 8 | And she rode on down the path into the teeth of the arrogant crowd who had blackballed John 's and her application for membership . |
| 9 | And she carried on with the arrangement she was making , cheerfully unaware of how great a change in attitude that charitable thought represented . |
| 10 | At last we are going aboard a tank-landing craft : I slip off my rucksack , assemble the bagpipes , a couple of minutes to tune up , then on with the rucksack and we march on to the craft to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 11 | He had put his anorak on again , no sign of the gun , no bulge as he climbed in and we started on up the mountain road , windscreen wipers slashing back and forth . |
| 12 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 13 | She tugged at Sadie 's sleeve and they walked on down the long aisle of the hall . |
| 14 | Denmead opened the scoring through Chris King and they held on until the second half when Campbell Wilson equalised for Good Sports . |
| 15 | Five or ten pounds is the price that has to be paid for them and they last six months and they move on to the next , extraordinary approach . |
| 16 | ‘ Jenner took most of them with him , ’ Diane said as the youth passed and they moved on towards the doors of the Science block . |
| 17 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 18 | Dad knew it was no good arguing with her and he carried on with the job . |
| 19 | Carey stumbled , suddenly having to take half Piper 's weight , and he fell on to the couch taking Piper with him . |
| 20 | And he walked on in the winter sunshine , the tom-cat smell of the tramp in his nostrils , the wind swelling his clothes , bowling him down the hill towards the station . |
| 21 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 22 | Martin had pulled himself up to his feet now and he held on to the back of the chair as he nodded at her , then watched her go towards the door . |
| 23 | He was new and he joined after the project submission had gone in , but at a stage where it needed to be implemented and he sewed on to the thing straight away . |
| 24 | And he dashed on over the hills . |
| 25 | ‘ Go on , you daft dog , ’ said Tom , and he leapt on to the bed between Willie 's arms and licked his face . |
| 26 | Even if the consumer can cover the risk by insurance , the position is much more complicated for him , and his insurers are going to be less likely to waive their rights of subrogation , without which his assumption of liability and his taking on of the insurance for the risk will not work . |
| 27 | Erm the two interact constantly and you can see foreign policy in some ways as a bridge between what goes on within the frame , the domestic framework of a country and what goes on in the international environment which surrounds it . |
| 28 | But curiously enough , such articulate recognition of the educational significance of the manyattas was exceptional , though administrators often behaved and wrote in ways which hinted at an implicit acknowledgement of the similarity between what went on in a Masai manyatta and what went on in the English boarding schools they had themselves attended . |
| 29 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 30 | I do n't know if it was the Irish temper in me or the Mexican , but I leapt on to the first marine I could reach . |