Example sentences of "[vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The play tottered on like this for a quarter of an hour . |
| 2 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 3 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 4 | But in rock these aspects are given their particular shape by , and centred on , a collectively understood manipulation of amplified sound . |
| 5 | At the level of policy implementation , impact centred on carefully demarcated areas . |
| 6 | Years afterwards , in fact decades afterwards , when Nietzsche himself was no longer available for comment , his sister repeatedly asserted that as a young professor he had always intended to produce a " large " book on Greece , not one dealing with , or centred on , a single topic , but a book that would deal comprehensively with various aspects of Greek civilization . |
| 7 | We may say , then , that by the summer of 1870 he was committed to a book centred on , and organized with reference to , Greek tragedy — although its exact scope still remained to be determined . |
| 8 | Having once established that certain polymeric materials are capable of crystallizing , fundamental studies are directed along two main channels of interest centred on |
| 9 | The House , prepared to sympathize , listened in growing anger as he doddered on . |
| 10 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 11 | I had to listen for a good hour while he burbled on about variably apertured annuity options and the like . |
| 12 | She burbled on like this , feeling dismally she was not helping herself , while Mrs Whitfield sat , eyes lowered , pricking out a pattern with the tip of her ballpoint on the top left-hand corner of Alice 's form . |
| 13 | John and I got on — and I was happy to join in with the general ‘ Sarah 's being difficult ’ refrain . |
| 14 | You can tell me how you got on today and I can start making some enquiries . ’ |
| 15 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 16 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 17 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 18 | And I got on at 50-1 immediately after that race , and had a fair bet . |
| 19 | I got on and did my job , ’ he said . |
| 20 | At dinner the undergraduate in his second year got on well with the ex-prime minister , which is a mark up to both sides . |
| 21 | As he got on , and less nervous , the words came easily ; and then he began to dislike being restricted by a written text and to prefer headings . |
| 22 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 23 | I got on quite well with Steve around that time You hungry ? he said one day Come on then I 'll treat you . |
| 24 | Maybe that very quickly he started coming up with lyrics and that he and I got on well right from the off , Well , not quite from the off . |
| 25 | Straightaway Steve got on to Malcolm and told him they needed all this money to join up with Scientology . |
| 26 | But Phoebe had felt a harsh jealousy that she did not like in herself when she realised how well Lisa and Rachel got on : she did not want that . |
| 27 | Maggie got on well and he was calmly nice to Rachel . |
| 28 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |
| 29 | Love was between a man and a woman , love was for marriage , and each would have died before admitting to anything more than they ‘ got on well ’ together . |
| 30 | Cogley was a nice quiet chap and they got on very well together . |