Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
| 2 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 3 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 4 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 5 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 6 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
| 7 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 8 | On the return , you can stay on for a few nights in Copenhagen for just £39 per person per night . |
| 9 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 10 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 11 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 12 | There is slightly more to go on with the latter however , and one seems justified in presuming the work of at least two men . |
| 13 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 14 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 15 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 16 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 17 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 18 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 19 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 20 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 21 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 22 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 23 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
| 24 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 25 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 26 | The controls , which laid down a minimum deposit for certain goods , restricted the amount of the finance charge which could be made and prohibited finance charges altogether for others , lingered on for a few years afterwards as part of what was still more or less a strictly managed war-time economy . |
| 27 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
| 28 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 29 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 30 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |