Example sentences of "we [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We rode on to the moors and found Linton lying in the same place as before . |
| 2 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 3 | After resting , we tramped on up the hill to Loch a'Chait , arriving tired , hot and weary . |
| 4 | We passed on to the family all the information we had . |
| 5 | Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off . |
| 6 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 7 | We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army . |
| 8 | In the old days we got on with the job , jollied staff along if they needed it , kicked the sluggards in the backside , encouraged the unconfident and persuaded a reluctant and sceptical police force to use us . |
| 9 | English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire . |
| 10 | We got on like a house on fire . |
| 11 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 12 | We decided that we would like to spend much of our available time in the far north , beyond the Arctic Circle so , taking turns at driving and stopping only for fuel and occasional snacks , we thrashed on up the ‘ spine ’ of Norway through spectacular mountain scenery to Trondheim . |
| 13 | Next we moved on to the ‘ enlarger ’ on the E6000 . |
| 14 | With that behind us we moved on to the interaction of language and context which defines language function ; to the possibility of establishing overall structures of discourse related to particular discourse types ; and to conversational mechanisms ( although they might also be regarded , like cohesion , as formal devices linking smaller units ) . |
| 15 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 16 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 17 | We moved on across the island to see the kittiwakes ' colony and yet more puffins , this time with beakfulls of fish returning to their nesting burrows . |
| 18 | We headed on up the alleyway , the map before us . |
| 19 | We taxi on to the runway , midday on the murder mile , to fly to the capital of the New United States Of Europe . |
| 20 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 21 | I do n't know how much pressure we put on for the police to get off their butts and do something . |
| 22 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 23 | We came on to the dirt road and a woman in a fluttering robe of pale pink organza walked towards us . |
| 24 | We drove on to the top of the road and drew up outside a compound surrounded by a wire fence ; inside was a large white building surrounded by an expanse of gravel on which a huge group of people were drawn up in lines . |
| 25 | We drove on to the rave and left her walking , thumbing a lift . ’ |
| 26 | We drove on toward the city . |
| 27 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 28 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
| 29 | we look on as the fictions of our lives |
| 30 | We followed on to the patio and spontaneously broke into an impromptu dance in our bare feet on the cold concrete , much to the delight of the crowd ’ . |