Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 2 | She made me put on my suit and collar and tie . |
| 3 | If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it . |
| 4 | We had one or two , one or two vagrants knocking about , and we just asked them to move on , and they moved on . |
| 5 | This was followed by four further weeks which trained them to pass on these new skills to other villagers . |
| 6 | The additional energy they enjoyed after following the diet for a few weeks helped them to take on a much more positive attitude towards life — I could sense a really happy attitude in the remarks on the questionnaires . |
| 7 | Then she helped me put on my white satin dress , after which I pulled on my shoes . |
| 8 | ‘ I found I got on with him reasonably well . |
| 9 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 10 | Bolingbroke found himself spied on as he travelled from Paris to Lorraine to see the increasingly unappreciative Pretender , and his letters , with their easily-deciphered substitutions — ‘ Lady Mary ’ for ‘ England ’ , ‘ Nelly ’ for Scotland — intercepted . |
| 11 | It was in New Zealand , where he stayed for three and a half years , that he first entered the world of Bohemia and found himself getting on best with artists . |
| 12 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 13 | Lisa found herself rushing on to inform him , ‘ This is one of my more conservative creations . ’ |
| 14 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 15 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 16 | She let him carry on with his stupidity and offered no elaboration nor explanation of her terms . |
| 17 | After an initial resistance , she let him talk on when this happened , but she turned her mind away , only half listening . |
| 18 | Like himself , Alexander was a clerk who served the King , even following him to England when the late Scottish King had gone south to attend the coronation of Edward I. Corbett let him ramble on while the gambling group broke up amidst loud shouts and farewells , and a harassed servant brought Corbett a cloak . |
| 19 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 20 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 21 | She let him go on , offering the proper monosyllable here and there . |
| 22 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 23 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 24 | He had been wonderful about her family whom he did not pretend to like , never made an issue of her going there and he let her run on about them when she got home . |
| 25 | The initiative helped it to take on new staff , all previously unemployed , and train them in skills ranging from computing to business administration . |
| 26 | The newspapers described what went on , particularly the annual Presidential Addresses , which generally called for more scientific education , and were fully and widely reported . |
| 27 | The chain armour had to be improved to protect the knight against arrows : in western Europe in the eleventh century the powerful crossbow came to be used , and the crusading armies constantly found themselves rained on by showers of arrows from mounted Turkish archers . |
| 28 | I found myself hanging on to that spirit , first at the office of Policia de Investigationes del Peru ( motto : ‘ Honor y Lealtad ’ ) where it was never the same man on my case . |
| 29 | It 's actually a very fast guitar and after half an hour of chords , runs and the odd quite musical moment , I found myself getting on really well with it . |
| 30 | I was very nervous , and I found myself coming on very strong and direct with her , and saying , ‘ I liked Rosemary 's Baby , but the picture bothered me for this reason … |