Example sentences of "on [prep] [noun prp] [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the Swiss police agreed to tap Lasser 's telephone in his Zurich apartment , Syrian George stayed on in Switzerland to sit on the wire while Sami Jafaar and other members of his clan kept watch to identify Lasser 's Arab visitors . |
| 2 | Border , who once said that the day Marsh and David Boon are out of the Australian side will be the day he goes as well , got back out on the ground soon enough , but he continued to fuel the fire by staying behind in Adelaide that evening while the rest of the team flew on to Perth to prepare for the fifth and final Test . |
| 3 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 4 | From Eric Abbott he went on to Canterbury to talk to the archbishop , Geoffrey Fisher . |
| 5 | It starts at Ivybridge in south Devon , takes you over the wilds of Dartmoor through mid-Devon and on across Exmoor to finish at the coastal resort of Lynmouth . |