Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teresa 's on about erm a she were asking me if anybody 'd be interested into going on to higher er education after this ? |
| 2 | We were interested in moving on in ministry , wondering if it could be to YWAM 's Nuneaton base where the UK Crossroads course is run , to help in the ministry team there . |
| 3 | I shall certainly be interested in carrying on with it as part of my natural diet now . |
| 4 | ‘ You ca n't be serious about going on with this , ’ Rosheen protested . |
| 5 | Philip , who lives in Darlington and attended Longfield Comprehensive before going on to Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College , has already represented his country at under-15 and under-16 levels . |
| 6 | The sandy beach on Majorca is ideal for flopping on by day in order to recover in time for the next night of action , and what a night it will be in this town that never sleeps ! |
| 7 | But the left can not be equally self-serving by hanging on to absolutes . |
| 8 | Pippin , our four-year-old daughter , and Paul , two-and-a-half , were becoming a little cranky and tired of hanging on to the cockpit coamings . |
| 9 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 10 | A world champion confident of holding on to his crown . |
| 11 | Since students should by now be comparatively well-informed about basic segmental phonetics , it is very important that their production and recognition of this vowel should be good before moving on to the following chapters . |
| 12 | A position of all-round defence is adopted , prior to moving on towards an imaginary objective . |
| 13 | They fell into step , heading for the pub where they 'd arranged to meet some of the other girls prior to going on to the dance . |
| 14 | ‘ She is — was — extremely competent , as well as very good at getting on with people , which is of course critical to jobs like that . |
| 15 | You 're pretty good at getting on with people , are n't you ? |
| 16 | Geologists are notorious for latching on to the name of a particular life-form present in rock formations when thinking up names and equally notorious for changing their minds and the rock 's name afterwards , hence Belemnita quadrata no longer exists because they have renamed it Gonio teuthis quadrata . |
| 17 | This undermines the authority of parents , the ones most responsible for passing on to their offspring a sense of right and wrong . |
| 18 | ( Q : which England player once scored a hat trick for Marske United after coming on as a substitute ? |
| 19 | But COS influence was at its most profound in passing on to the service the principle of casework , for this embodied a number of middle-class assumptions about individualism , character , and family responsibilities . |
| 20 | But Folly was in no mood to have her character analysed — and she knew that once her mother started on her favourite hobby-horse she was quite capable for going on for hours . |
| 21 | How many aircraft were they capable of working on at the same time ? |
| 22 | The rest are too busy worrying about holding on to what they have or getting more . ’ |
| 23 | A tool called a shack-fork — a fork with curved tines and an iron bow at the shoulder was used to gather the swathes of barley into gavels ready for pitching on to the wagons . |
| 24 | After 12 months you should have nice young plants nearly ready for moving on to permanent quarters or , if the cuttings are of the rugosa type and intended for rootstocks on to which you are going to bud other varieties , they can be planted out ready for working . |
| 25 | There were in Portsmouth only one battalion of foot , 600 pensioners , a few marines doing duty in the port , or ready for drafting on to the ships or frigates then fitting out … |