Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [conj] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite recently Sergt.-Pilot Dunbell [ sic ] Smith visited Halfway while on leave . |
| 2 | My violin teacher had recommended it for chamber music , and when I found out that on one of the weeks the famous violinist , Ruggiero Ricci , would be there , I was certain that I would go . |
| 3 | He banged on and on : ‘ Preparation , forward planning , attention to detail — it 's just like batting . |
| 4 | Apart from his regrettable affliction he was in every way the opposite to herself ; a great thick-headed , rumbustious extrovert totally out of place in her gracious menage : I never did find out how they came together but on my visits I found that Cedric had one admirer at least . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've got every pan in the place filled up and on the cooker . |
| 6 | A bad accident at Mosport nearly cost him his life but he came back and on his return to England joined the new Honda team . |
| 7 | In the early part of 1991 , before all this occurred , I went through a period of time when my find rate dropped drastically and on many occasions I went out and came back home with nothing at all . |
| 8 | At that very moment Ingulph came by and on seeing him Ashford 's relations acknowledged God 's judgement in favour of the abbey . |
| 9 | It turned out that on stage I would wear a loin-cloth and brown make-up , so that I resembled a turd in a bikini-bottom . |
| 10 | which have , yes , used local facilities , and relied rather than on purpose-built er , accommodation , using those , those , that accommodation that is readily available . |
| 11 | Other authorities followed slowly and on a smaller scale . |
| 12 | ‘ I told my Dad to keep him locked up or on his lead . |
| 13 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 14 | 19.2 Except as otherwise provided herein , no addition , amendment to or modification of this Agreement shall be effective unless it is in writing and signed by and on behalf of both Parties . |
| 15 | This requires the representative to hold a letter of authority from the member , entitling him so to act , and signed by or on behalf of the committee-member ( r 6.156(2) ) . |
| 16 | Then , one night , he took off from Toussus to return to Tarbes in a Turbo Trinidad , went up to FL 210 , and passed out while on autopilot . |
| 17 | STUMBLED ON whilst on holiday in Hawaii recently was an airfield approximately 40 miles outside of Honolulu . |
| 18 | STUMBLED ON whilst on holiday in Hawaii recently was an airfield approximately 40 miles outside of Honolulu . |
| 19 | What has surprised me , and is different from my understanding of processes as they were in the middle 1970s when I last worked in and on North Shields , is the centrality of land and development to an understanding of that place . |
| 20 | The principle was confirmed at the Eighth Congress of the International Association of the Arts held in Baghdad in 1976 : ‘ Works by living artists exhibited in or on public buildings , galleries , museums and other public sites and which continue thereby to provide a service to the public should be subject to a continuing form of remuneration to their creator ( comparable to performing rights for theatrical or musical works paid to author and composer ) so long as he or she is alive and the work continues to be a public amenity ’ . |
| 21 | Given his many commitments and the preparations for the new play , his second , The Family Reunion , on which he probably worked harder than on any other — it was understandable that he could not consider sparing more than an evening away . |
| 22 | Everything and everybody worked well and on cue . |
| 23 | and kept on and on saying it |
| 24 | ‘ How can I understand it , how can I understand it ? ’ he went on and on accusingly , as though scientists are to blame for not inventing a magic serum that would give him instant knowledge . |
| 25 | In this first session she demonstrated how she nagged him and went on and on trying to get the response she wanted . |
| 26 | After Morris came Joe Karam and as the 70s went on and on Mains kept playing to his high level for Southern and Otago , but that All Black place he had held so briefly seemed to get further and further away . |
| 27 | To have an infinite number of pebbles you 'd have to have a rubber sheet that was more or less flat and just went on and on for ever . |
| 28 | They went on and on trying . |
| 29 | It went on and on … |
| 30 | His body clock free-ran so that on occasions he was the victim of a clash between an internal cause — which thought it was night and wanted him to sleep — and an external cause , society — which required him to work in the ( real ) daytime . |