Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 2 | One after the other , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben got on to their bikes and rode off . |
| 3 | So men from the IRA mixed with British squaddies , and through necessity got on with each other . |
| 4 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 5 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 6 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 7 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 8 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 9 | This hope lived on in Judaism . |
| 10 | A presence lived on in his absence . |
| 11 | Some evenings there 'll be a series of sketches laid on by the Club 's Entertainments Team or a folklore show by guest dancers . |
| 12 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 13 | In more recent years Jim passed on to me his copies of The Nottingham Graduate . |
| 14 | ‘ Go for the girl , ’ ordered Randy Sherwood , as South Sussex rode on to the field . |
| 15 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
| 16 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 17 | Inside were two fairly small square rooms , one each side of the front door , with a roomy kitchen built on at the back . |
| 18 | The group discussions reported on in Appendix II excluded pensioners and the very poorest households . |
| 19 | Unfairly , Sandra is still best known in Britain as ‘ Madonna 's best friend ’ , the possible — but in the end rather improbable — lesbian love interest that titillated the tabloids for a while until Maddy moved on to other mock shocks . |
| 20 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 21 | Last night the hurricane moved on to Louisiana . |
| 22 | This positive working relationship helped to strengthen the foundations of the sport , especially when Sarah moved on in 1987 to become a senior staff coach at the English Ski Council and Development Officer for freestyle . |
| 23 | Sometimes these were ad hominem arrangements-that in Kefe was dissolved after a year and that in Kutahya when the holder moved on to his next post , though Kutahya was recreated a mevleviyet in 989/1581 — but many of them had become permanent by the end of the century . |
| 24 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 25 | Schools got on with the business of education . |
| 26 | BALDNESS can be caused by ringworm from a fungi passed on by pet budgies , dogs and cats , says an Australian hair expert . |
| 27 | Without his bad-tempered dad , Rab C. Nesbitt , to annoy him , Wee Burney got on with the job of handing a trophy and a Cash Club Account containing £10 to young Heather Stobbs . |
| 28 | On Nov. 25 a programme agreed on by the coalition partners was announced in the National Assembly . |
| 29 | But the car lived on as a classic . |
| 30 | Leaving a toisech in charge , Thorfinn rode on with Tuathal and the advance group . |