Example sentences of "on [prep] some [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is the Fiction too slight a foundation to build on for some understanding of these intermediate years ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases . |
| 6 | Just pass them on to some friend of yours or ? |
| 7 | Hold on to some part of your legs which you can reach without straining . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | Everything could be converted tot he market : people and needs parcelled up on to some sort of national supermarket shelves . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |