Example sentences of "who [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 2 | The lesson of the Square One Principle is this : the person who has the courage to go back when necessary is the one who goes on in the end . |
| 3 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 4 | The fiery blast killed everyone on deck instantly , with the single exception of the captain , who lived on for a short time before becoming unconscious and falling overboard . |
| 5 | The present interior dates from 1852 when it was used by Emperor Ferdinand the Gracious , the last king of Bohemia who abdicated in 1848 in favour of his nephew but who lived on in the castle until his death , in 1875 . |
| 6 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 7 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 8 | The subsidiary company did better than the Virginia Company , kept going for another sixty years , and in the 1640s provided most of the settlers who moved on to the Bahamas . |
| 9 | Soon the door was closed , leaving outside , among the gravestones and round the Cross , a small and growing crowd who lingered on with a sense that the entertainment might not be over . |
| 10 | Then came the era of the Brat Pack , a bunch of young Hollywood actors who came on to the scene thinking they were God 's gift to the cinema — and some of them were . |
| 11 | The newspaper reporters who came on to the scene contributed to the overspill of spite . |
| 12 | His point was that the yobs who came on to the pitch did so from the comfort of a new , multi-million pound stand . |
| 13 | And Coppell may have to pair his £100,000 capture from non-League Sutton with another rookie , 18-year-old Grant Watts , who came on as a half-time substitute at QPR last Saturday . |
| 14 | West Germany 's defender who played on with a broken collar bone in 1970 ( see taking it too seriously and injuries ) . |
| 15 | Clarke writes a good deal more intelligently — and entertainingly — than many who prattle on about the future . |
| 16 | A policeman brought down two children who clambered on to the roof of a butcher 's shop in South Bank Road , Middlesbrough , at the weekend and could not get down . |
| 17 | The general practitioner , however , retained his or her claim to be ‘ an independent contractor ’ by receiving a sum of money from the Central Exchequer for each person who signed on to the practice . |
| 18 | The first performance came from two people in white radiation suits who walked on to the stage carrying a dustbin allegedly containing nuclear waste . |
| 19 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 20 | ‘ Most people who use the train regularly know everyone who gets on at the first few stops . |
| 21 | But they are true professionals who get on with the task in a methodical manner , no matter what the circumstances . |
| 22 | At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first . |
| 23 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 24 | Guests who stay on over the Friday and Saturday nights and also have dinner in the hotel will receive free accommodation . |
| 25 | Head of sixth : This year they 're mostly Indians , that is the largest ethnic group of people who stay on to the sixth form , followed by the white children , then the Pakistani and West Indian in very small numbers . |
| 26 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
| 27 | Wakefield , restricted to a penalty goal in the first quarter of an hour , took command in the next 15 minutes to run in three of their eight tries , two by centre Mason , who went on to a hat-trick . |
| 28 | Penguin starts life as a hideously deformed tot who bursts on to the scene years later as a fat , big-beaked freak determined to rule Gotham City and do away with Batman ( Michael Keaton ) . |
| 29 | ‘ The days of signing £30,000 or £40,000 players who move on after a year are over . |
| 30 | Mary would work like a slave , but a woman could not take the animals to market , though he knew of widows living alone , soldiers ' wives mostly , who farmed on in a rough way by themselves , their cattle straying and mixing with the herds of others , their oats still standing in November … |