Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 2 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 3 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 4 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 5 | Bryony come and stand over here or hang on to the buggy whichever you want to do . |
| 6 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 7 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 8 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 9 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |
| 10 | Dr Edwin Pugh , director of public health medicine , said : ‘ Most accidents occur when children are in the street or straying on to the road as parents we must be completely vigilant . ’ |
| 11 | It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there . |
| 12 | Alternatively when you need to change the paint colour or type , or move on to a different job requiring another size of brush , simply change the brush head to either 1 , 1½ , or 2″ . |
| 13 | If nothi if you , you do n't have an external force acting on something it just to remain stationary or , or carry on in a straight line and fixed speed , if . |
| 14 | Cyclists should take particular care entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 15 | Cyclists should take particular care when entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 16 | I wonder sometimes where my cousin ended up ; at the bottom of the sea , or washed on to some craggy and deserted shore , or blown on to a high mountain face , to be eaten by gulls or eagles … |
| 17 | The consequences of a low initial limit was that a solicitor would either have to stop work at an early stage and wait for an extension to be authorised , which ‘ is time-consuming , causes delay and raises difficulties with clients , ’ or work on without an extension . |
| 18 | Whatever has to be copied is typed or handwritten on to the exposed surface of the special paper creating a reverse image in carbon on the back of the paper . |
| 19 | It seemed to Preston that if you avoided being stabbed to death by terror gangs , you stood an even chance of being burned to death by sudden conflagration , or pushed on to the live line by a psychopath lurking among the rush-hour crowds , or struck down by a heart attack brought on by the extreme rage and frustration of trying to understand a platform announcement . |
| 20 | The boat skipper gives Kevin a choice — swim or struggle on in the bad weather and lose your money . |
| 21 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 22 | The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however . |
| 23 | This sort of economic and social domination that goes on across the whole family . |
| 24 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 25 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 26 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 27 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 28 | Even with all the other general fund-raising that goes on over the year , it is pleasing that you still run or participate in events that are specifically for the Society ; we have again benefited from Raffles , Cake Sales , Bring and Buys , Good as New , Cheese-and-Wines , Coffee Mornings — AND — Sponsored Slims ! |
| 29 | Now , erm on the subject of of the family , it 's worth mentioning another erm sort of debate that goes on within the subject of child sex abuse , the business of I suppose you might call it the business of responsibility . |
| 30 | Further , a family member may find it difficult to " let go " of the primary sufferer while he or she is in treatment and may still want to find out everything that goes on in a treatment centre on a day-to-day basis and there by continue to " fix " by proxy . |