Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Ben , his assistant Lucy , John Gould and I sat in amazement as Phyl , the rosy , cosy raven-haired lady who was to be my dresser , mounted an enormous step-ladder and began pinning on to the backcloth , yard after yard after metre after metre of off-white gauze curtaining . |
| 32 | Leaden clouds had rolled in with the setting sun and as they neared Carvoeiro fat drops of rain began to splash on to the windscreen . |
| 33 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 34 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 35 | He decided to go on to the second and third caves , determined to find what he was looking for . |
| 36 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 37 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 38 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 39 | So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives . |
| 40 | During Ministry 's set , huge clods of earth started to bounce on to the stage . |
| 41 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 42 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 43 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 44 | And decided to fight on despite the problems . |
| 45 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 46 | He repeatedly stated they needed to get on with the ‘ disclosure ’ work as quickly as possible . |
| 47 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 48 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 49 | The whole column proceeded to fall on to the ground . |
| 50 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 51 | It is not yet known how so many horses managed to stray on to the road which was a quarter of a mile from their paddock . |
| 52 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 53 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 54 | Auntie Jane kept going on about the violence . |
| 55 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 56 | As the deep velvet baritone quietly affirmed ‘ Und morgen wird die Sonne wieder scheinen … ’ , a hawk moth , disturbed at the window pane , raced towards the bulb of a reading-lamp and dashed itself against the light until it fell exhausted on to the table . |
| 57 | ‘ I think that 's one of the reasons why Stoneley chose to hang on to the school as an observation point , ’ Hennessy said . |
| 58 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 59 | Dazed as I was , I managed to roll on to the floor and crawl under the table as people crowded over to watch what they thought was a fight . |
| 60 | Dulé 's canoe had not foundered in the first rounds of gunfire , but kept skimming on towards the Rebecca , with the remaining boats still around him , offering cover . |