Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 2 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 3 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 4 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 5 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 6 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 7 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 8 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 9 | Though Lowe tried to hang on to the original concept , RSGB 's figures finally killed off the ‘ Sunday Guardian ’ approach . |
| 10 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 11 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 12 | Rachel sank shaking on to the white sofa and buried her hot face in her hands . |
| 13 | Small clients handled roughly from what sounded like a hectic dealing room got turned on by the apparent professionalism of it all , and often allowed themselves to be persuaded into buying almost worthless over the counter ( OTC ) shares . |
| 14 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 15 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 16 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 17 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 18 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 19 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 20 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 21 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 22 | Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line . |
| 23 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 24 | He came rushing on to the platform just as a train bound for Debden came in . |
| 25 | ‘ They came running on with no boarding passes , and only had hand baggage which they carried themselves . |
| 26 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 27 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 28 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 29 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 30 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |