Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She gave no reply but went on through the store-room , whose walls were lined with shelves , some holding bottles of sweets , others boxes of all sizes , then through another door and into a corridor , from which , six feet to the right of her , a door led into the store-room of the tobacconist shop . |
| 32 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 33 | a telephone call will tell you whether you 've the papers wo n't be drawn up but they will be able to tell him on through the phone whether it 's okay . |
| 34 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 35 | And so he went on through the calculator to get the number of ways for ten buttons — 3,628,800 . |
| 36 | Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal . |
| 37 | She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon . |
| 38 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 39 | She went out , cut more branches , threw the dying ones away , and sat on through the afternoon , thinking . |
| 40 | He was way ahead of the rest of the field and battled on through the afternoon trying to win those valuable championship points . |
| 41 | This continuity is now being carried on through the firm of Baker Bros . |
| 42 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 43 | The Avignon 's bows had begun to swing rapidly through all the points of the compass as the river meandered on through the jungle , and the tips of the cathedral spires seemed to dart around the ship , popping up first in one quarter then another like the ears of an inquisitive rabbit trying to follow its progress . |
| 44 | The beat pulsed on through the nightclub , lights flashing , illuminating Damian 's sardonic smile . |
| 45 | She saw them in the sky , just a small group of them , but they brought death , she knew that , as they flew steadily on through the calm of the summer morning . |
| 46 | So they rode on through the twilight , the guides either side of Johnson soothing him forward . |
| 47 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 48 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 49 | Yes , and then that approach was taken on through the Greater York study , and in the greenbelt local plan , and the Greater York study identified a number of sites . |
| 50 | It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’ |
| 51 | It 's a skill passed on through the generations . |
| 52 | Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem . |
| 53 | Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 54 | At Newlands , the way in which Australia compensated judiciously , changing the plays , ploughing on through the mud with high kicks , by forcing the lineout , by their discipline and tactics around the fringes , was an object lesson . |
| 55 | The motorspeeder journeyed on through the plains of Sakkrat . |
| 56 | She walked on through the rain without stopping , and the young police officers walked beside her . |
| 57 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 58 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 59 | The hard core of helpers worked on through the week of almost continuous sunshine and good fortune , and were supported by the essential ‘ reliefs ’ who came whenever they could to sell and to carry . |
| 60 | She could hear the rising engine-note of the Corporation buses as they pulled away from the stop at the corner , coming from nowhere either of them had ever heard of , going on through the gathering winter dusk to destinations equally obscure . |