Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [verb] on [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Lower down we emerged on to a more open country of grass-covered hills , with delphiniums gladioli and other flowers growing along the banks of the many streams .
2 And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " .
3 This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level .
4 Are n't you going on from a mistake ?
5 From here we carried on along a river and soon arrived at Sokol which has just one house — a traditional forester 's cabin with deer antlers above the front door .
6 Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down .
7 Then he went on to a merciless performance as an inarticulate Garda , who had been called to the school to deliver the annual lecture on road safety .
8 Bruce shows how he holds on with a metal clip …
9 It 's like when they did the erm you know when she comes on as a fairy
10 The minute young are born in a relatively premature state and wriggle their way into the pouch of the mother where they fasten on to a teat for some weeks to complete their development .
11 He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter .
12 Instead he stayed on at a factory .
13 Steve Sedgley had Tottenham 's best chance in the 14th minute when he latched on to a Gordon Durie centre , but Villa goalkeeper Nigel Spink reacted quickly to block his attempted shot .
14 Steve Sedgley had Tottenham 's best chance in the 14th minute when he latched on to a Gordon Durie centre , but Villa goalkeeper Nigel Spink reacted quickly to block his attempted shot .
15 However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home .
16 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
17 Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track .
18 Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres .
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