Example sentences of "on [prep] some [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 2 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 3 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 4 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 5 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 6 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 7 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 8 | Had their father — the thought aroused crazy laughter — passed it on from some episode in his youth ? |
| 9 | He thought it fortunate that improvements in male characteristics were passed on in some measure to women , otherwise the man would have become as superior in mental endowment to women as the peacock is in plumage to the peahen . |
| 10 | The superseding of medieval forms of agricultural exploitation had taken centuries ( and was still going on in some parts of Europe in 1880 ) , but the decisive changes were over ; the worker had been freed from indissoluble ties with the land , that land itself was increasingly treated as a commodity like any other , and it absorbed more and more capital to make higher and higher production possible . |
| 11 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 12 | I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases . |
| 13 | Just pass them on to some friend of yours or ? |
| 14 | Hold on to some part of your legs which you can reach without straining . |
| 15 | Mr Harvey always take us to the Kentucky Derby and we stay in Washington for the Preakness meeting , then go on to some friends of the Harveys in New York . |
| 16 | Because I 'm already vulnerable enough where you 're concerned and for my own sake I have to hold on to some degree of control . |
| 17 | If I can talk immediately to scope of that amendment before moving on to some points about the budget . |
| 18 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 20 | Everything could be converted tot he market : people and needs parcelled up on to some sort of national supermarket shelves . |
| 21 | ‘ You 're forgetting about my interest in a bush walk , ’ she pointed out , thankful to be able to latch on to some aspect of the place . |
| 22 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 23 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 24 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |