Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 2 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 3 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 4 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 5 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Now the last person I had moved on to the hundreds had enormous problems with the stickiness of them . |
| 8 | Once I 'd accomplished the first stages of training , getting her to sit still on my fist , I had to move on to the next stage : getting her to feed there . |
| 9 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 10 | But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world . |
| 11 | I flung the sporting pistol I had looted on to the back seat , relieved to think I would never have to defend myself with it . |
| 12 | At my first event in Fort Worth , I had held on to the few people I knew as though for dear life , terrified at the thought of being stranded in this great wilderness . |
| 13 | I stared wonderingly at the small , wax candle which I had thrown on to the floor of my chamber . |
| 14 | I wanted to get on with the drop — the pilot had been in that freezing water for long enough ! i changed to a right-hand hold , then I talked to my passengers as much as possible to keep them calm and show that everything was under control . |
| 15 | I wanted a second mate 's ticket ; I wanted to get on to the bridge and do things . |
| 16 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 17 | Gentle had successfully recreated one Gauguin previously , a small picture which had gone on to the open market and been consumed without any questions being asked . |
| 18 | The purple book , which had fallen on to the floor during the night , jogged his memory . |
| 19 | He found a ‘ poor fishing town ’ which had retreated on to the cliffs to avoid the winter storms ; but it was far better situated than Daniel Defoe allowed when he visited the coast in the 1720s . |
| 20 | She seemed to be caught up in a permanent giddying whirl , of trying to run the nightclub , making herself available to the police whenever they needed her , and coping with the demands of a sensation-hungry Press which had swooped on to the drugs-bust story with its famous heroine like a pack of vultures . |
| 21 | Some injuries had apparently been caused by the explosion dislodging flooring and equipment on the overhead jigs which had crashed on to the men working on the shop-floor . |
| 22 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 23 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 24 | She tried to hold on to the heady rapture that was sweeping her along like a river in flood . |
| 25 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 26 | Strange that David should be coming along at that very moment that she 'd emerged on to the main road . |
| 27 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | Because you were the one who kept going on about the need to keep it secret . |
| 30 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |