Example sentences of "and [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 2 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 3 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 4 | Then the Cid bade his banner move on , and the Bishop Don Hieronymo pricked forward with his company , and laid on with such guise , that the hosts were soon mingled together . |
| 5 | You know , telling us everything about the Tories , what they 've done wrong and to go on from that , not telling us anything about how you 're gon na put it right . |
| 6 | To begin your career with a book as wonderful as The House of Mr Biswas , and to carry on in such an unflinchingly individual way to produce a wonderful sardonic book like The Enigma of Arrival , is quite remarkable . ’ |
| 7 | Blithe Spirit opens at the Everyman Theatre tonight and goes on until 19th June . |
| 8 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 9 | It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells . |
| 10 | Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates . |
| 11 | A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data . |
| 12 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 13 | Barnard considered that the energy introduced into the homoeopathic potency during the succussion process stabilized the arrangement of the water polymers and that it was these shape-specific polymers which were built up and passed on from one potency to the next . |
| 14 | She worked mainly with men , and got on with most of them , but she did not enjoy it when Alec Ardis , the son of the firm 's owner , one day came into her office and , without any encouragement from her and despite his married status , made an assault on her and refused to take ‘ no ’ for an answer . |
| 15 | Ray Warren left soon after and moved on to higher things , no doubt with some relief . |
| 16 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 17 | He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter . |
| 18 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 19 | The British and other European countries knew that this would allow US airlines to fly from the USA , pick up passengers in Britain or in Europe , and fly on to any other destination , which would mean complete US domination of civil aviation . |
| 20 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 21 | For example , what if Mr Heath had won the February 1974 general election , as he nearly did , and carried on as Prime Minister ? |
| 22 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 23 | Although the average working week was still forty-eight hours , most men at that time had been reared when toil used to start at six o'clock in the morning and carried on until eight each evening . |
| 24 | Robyn dumped her holdall on to the floor and sank on to one of the chintzy sofas . |
| 25 | Mr Clarke is expected to propose substantial changes in its composition and working methods to overcome SNP claims that the convention is Labour-dominated and bent on excluding nationalist arguments for independence . |
| 26 | Growing usually at a height of between I –0 to I 60 metres the vineyards curve round from an eastern to south-eastern aspect , and climb on to higher ground towards the edge of the Bois de Cormont . |
| 27 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 28 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 29 | Sales manager Graham Cooper says : ‘ The introduction of video printing techniques means that images can now be ‘ grabbed ’ and transferred on to other materials such as T-shirts , mugs , key-rings and baseball hats . |
| 30 | The following are diagrams of a machine where a letter is put in and operated on by each box in turn as the letter goes along the conveyor belt . |