Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kids ' stuff : Kevin Thomas , Hearts ' 17-year-old debutant , acclaims his goal , scored minutes after coming on at Tynecastle on Saturday . |
| 2 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 3 | A day of sorrows for Crusaders was capped just before half-time when the usually lethal Sid Burrows was booked for throwing the ball away and referee Alan Snoddy had a word with manager Roy Walker for coming on to the pitch . |
| 4 | Obviously a writer who is happy with ‘ super-refined ’ ( elsewhere he says that Eliot 's ‘ Portrait of a Lady ’ is ‘ extraordinarily sensitized ’ ) is not a critic worth pausing on for long ; and yet when Untermeyer cites all too patent imitations of Eliot 's ‘ Sweeney Among the Nightingales ’ in quatrains by Osbert Sitwell and Herbert Read and Robert Nichols , one can see good reason for him to think that Eliot s reputation , achieved so fast on such a slender body of work , was no more than modish . |
| 5 | PROUD dad Phil Stancliff lost half his blood after plunging on to church railings before his daughter 's wedding . |
| 6 | ‘ What 's the good of going on about contraception when you ca n't even get your own head together . ’ |
| 7 | Anyway , with the Soviet threat on the wane and the Europeans proposing to take on more of the burden that is left , the cost to the United States of staying on in Europe will henceforth be smaller . |
| 8 | THE new captain of Preston Grasshoppers is none other than England lock WADE DOOLEY , which wold suggest that — at least at club level — the ‘ Blackpool Tower ’ has every intention of playing on for a little while . |
| 9 | Possibly their bruises were simply the effect of ejecting on to hard sand from a fast aircraft . |
| 10 | They were much less concerned with the details or wider context of future activities , and much more interested in trying out ideas in practice before moving on to further planning . |
| 11 | The usual practice , therefore , is to take each question individually and mark that one question on every script before going on to the next question . |
| 12 | If you sowed tomato seeds last month , now is the time to prick them out , ie transfer them into small pots , or , if you have sown them in soil blocks , to reduce them to one per cell before moving on to a pot . |
| 13 | Mr Devlin is the son of a surgeon , and was educated at Dulwich College before moving on to the London School of Economics where he graduated with a BA in modern history . |
| 14 | On Jan. 17 it met Pakistan Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto before moving on to meet mujaheddin leaders in Peshawar . |
| 15 | I was never any good at getting on with people . |
| 16 | As you gain experience and begin to think about a first cross-country , local soaring provides a golden opportunity to check the compass for large errors and to get some practice at turning on to definite headings . |
| 17 | After her interview with J. D. O'Connor she had mitigated her whoppers to Matey and Dr Neil by moving on to the West End , where she walked along Oxford Street , entering Mr Gordon Selfridge 's store , gazing as raptly at its wonders as though she were truly the poor girl whom she pretended to be , the whole place seeming quite different now that she no longer had her papa 's bottomless purse at her command . |
| 18 | Wicketkeeper Adam Parore delayed Sri Lanka 's victory bid by holding on for 223 minutes for a Test-best 60 . |
| 19 | She would speak of the necessity of holding on to a framework of belief , a reasonable percentage of belie |
| 20 | Right now there are plenty of religions that do n't show this er pattern of trauma , repression and latency of return of the repressed , they , they just kind of go on from er from time immemorial , erm and there are plenty of examples of that . |
| 21 | Couple of points though about this erm , how the parish council is recognized within the organization because it 's important and that did our day as well and , I suppose in a way it 's the one , one or so positive things out of this that we kind of latch on to , that the communication part is important and erm there may be others that feel the same way that we 're not actually communicating what it is that we 're doing , so , so maybe |
| 22 | The heroes you have kind of linger on from a prior period when only a few records passed through your life , when you had the time to get fixated , spend weeks living inside a record . |
| 23 | Mansell , accompanied by his wife Roseanne , was in emotional mood after hopping on to the stage at the International Motor Sports Federation 's annual prize-giving . |
| 24 | By the very act of reading on into the tale from the Miller 's Prologue we as readers allow ourselves to be manipulated into supposing ourselves somehow different from the readership of " " every gentil wight " " that is offered a warning and an invitation to : We know ourselves to be more complex beings . |
| 25 | I asked myself that question on many occasions and wondered how I was supposed to refresh his and other people 's memories without risking the accusation of going on about it all the time . |
| 26 | Even the Five Nations Championship might appear a little limp after the events of the autumn , so what chance has club rugby of hanging on to any of the converts in the meantime ? |
| 27 | For them , it is more a question of getting on with the job . |
| 28 | The secret of good , smooth surface finishes , particularly with polishing by hand , is careful washing and complete removal of abrasive from both specimen and lap before moving on to finer grades . |
| 29 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 30 | Countless independent ‘ free house ’ owners have copied brewers ' fashions and wrought untold havoc with unassuming old country pubs before moving on to pastures new . |