Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was all over in bloody , yelling minutes , and the Scots swept on into the encampment itself . |
| 32 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 33 | ‘ Innes Place had been vacant ground for a long number of years , and the planning people insisted that there never had been houses fronting on to the Donegall Road , ’ Mr Smyth explained . |
| 34 | But , although the construction company 's overlord continued to stay away , a day or two later a gang of his labourers moved on to the land which surrounded her house . |
| 35 | About 6,000 silk rosettes have to be made next , and these are stitched on the inside and outside of the garland before forty-eight red , white and blue ribbons with bells sewn on to the ends are attached . |
| 36 | Marsh accepted his fate honourably , as everyone expected , and the Australians got on with the job of keeping their boot on the Indian throat . |
| 37 | The lectures laid on at the Sorbonne were of an abysmal simplicity , and given by lecturers who grossly though understandably underestimated their audience : they bored her as she had not been bored by work for years . |
| 38 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 39 | His appetite whetted by this auction , he was a natural target for Sotheby 's when Irises came on to the market . |
| 40 | Whole farms and landed estates at the edge of urban areas came on to the market ; suburban land prices therefore were very low . |
| 41 | The falcon still wheels in silence high in the cooling air above the statue of Sir John Moore , the spotlights flick on around the camp perimeter and once again a security patrol prepares to leave the gate . |
| 42 | At the top of the spiral staircases are two wooden trapdoors leading on to the battlements . |
| 43 | I shall refer briefly to one of the matters touched on by the hon. Gentleman , although I shall not speak on it for as long as I had intended , because the hon. Gentleman made wide-ranging reference to it himself , I congratulate him on that . |
| 44 | You 'll be jostled , pushed , elbowed and have your feet stamped on by the seething hordes that are just going about their daily business in the city . |
| 45 | Wet weather golfers soldier on in the rain |
| 46 | Obviously we 're trying to make a homely atmosphere so that parents can come and go , er when new parents come on to the ward , when new patients come on to the ward , nursing staff maintain a , a close control and a close liaison with them , so were any undesirables as it were , to come on to the ward , I am sure they would be picked up almost immediately . |
| 47 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 48 | The hard core of party-goers stayed on until the small hours , drinking coffee , sprawled on settees , sinking into morose abuse and gloom , surfacing occasionally to laugh , to chatter , relapsing , rising , sinking again . |
| 49 | The gun crews on its roof fled , and the commandos doubled on to the bridge ( 'G' ) across the Old Entrance lock into the submarine basin , holding this exposed position for half an hour under fire from 20mm guns on the roof of the submarine pens and other buildings on the west side of the basin . |
| 50 | Simon Cope of London-based commercial agent Gerald Eve , which is marketing the scheme jointly with Sanderson Townend & Gilbert , said : ‘ There has been as reasonable amount of interest in the past , and marketing has occasionally been stopped while discussions have taken place , but there are serious discussions going on at the moment . ’ |
| 51 | I gazed at the devastation from behind a stone horsetrough , lying flat on my face as another explosion sent lumps of metal and cobblestones clattering on to the roofs of the farm buildings . |
| 52 | Their evolution is governed by the nuclear reactions going on inside the star and making it shine . |
| 53 | There are various activities going on at the present , looking at the state of the rainforest , and what is happening , one of which is a project which we are involved in ourselves , which is looking at the incentives to people to erm manage the forest , for sustained yield , so it produces timber indefinitely . |
| 54 | There were enough activities going on around the field ; surely there was somewhere his services were needed ? |
| 55 | But in other parts of the Midlands , and indeed the country , the search is on to find the houses with high erm we have quite large programmes going on in the south west and also in the Pennines , Scotland . |
| 56 | Even now , he could savour the soft , succulent flesh , hear the sudden spurt of flame as the juices dripped on to the coals . |
| 57 | Etna , on the island of Sicily , has been whooshing and thumping away in one or other of its twin summit craters intermittently for hundreds of years — Milton refers to it as ‘ Thundering Aetna ’ in Paradise Lost — and the lurid spectacle of gouts of lava being ejected from the crater every few minutes makes an odd contrast with the winter sports going on on the smooth , snowy slopes beneath the summit . |
| 58 | Many colonnades , staircases , doorways and corridors open on to the Central Courts and , if the bull dance really did take place there , they must have been protected in some way from the rampaging bulls . |
| 59 | In keeping with standard FIFA practice , officials walked on to the pitch and handed red coupons to two of the most famous Scottish players , Johnson and Kenny Dalglish . |
| 60 | ‘ He always carried a spare pair of socks and a pair of more comfortable slippers to put on in the office . ’ |