Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cyclists should take particular care entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 2 | Cyclists should take particular care when entering the route or emerging on to the road at the accesses . |
| 3 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 4 | It was propped against the end-post of a break in the wall , the same break that gave on to the cottage steps which Forester had passed before . |
| 5 | But you were telling me that there 's a lot of research that goes on in the universities . |
| 6 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 7 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 8 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 9 | I wrench the steering-wheel back from uncertainty and thrash on up the hill . |
| 10 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 11 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 12 | Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards . |
| 13 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 14 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 15 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 16 | ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I ca n't believe I am being blamed for a fight that went on in the stand behind us , and I hope video evidence will clearly back me up . ’ |
| 19 | Inside the two women who keep the inn serve through the hatch that opens on to the one room . |
| 20 | In recent months the residents of the area around the bar had been complaining almost nightly to the police about the noise that went on until the small hours and about the hypodermics left strewn around the piazza , a serious health hazard to the children who played there during the day . |
| 21 | I think this is one of the essentials in Harlow and something that people should not forget , that is that , although there is a great deal of criticism possibly of the standard of building that went on over the years of the Development Corporation , compared with what most people came from , there was a very great elevation both in quality and in ideas . |
| 22 | The soul-searching that went on in the security community , in the think tanks and universities throughout the United States in 1990 gives some hint of that ‘ sense of loss ’ . |
| 23 | A door into the hallway , a door beyond that , and Schmidt going for the french window that let on to the patio . |
| 24 | The child followed Aggie through the middle arch and towards a heavy , paintless oak door , then into a room dimly lit by a window that looked on to the covered way . |
| 25 | An advertising campaign that went on about the law of averages did n't seem to help when much of the press criticism rounded on the Escort as exactly a car for Mr Average . |
| 26 | I think we had better try and influence that as churches not that we should about the suffering that goes on about the death that goes on , but I think we ought to give all this another dimension in churches . |
| 27 | Cornelius scooped up his chum and scrambled on to the nearest table , scattering antique French tennis racquets . |
| 28 | Old Red acknowledged that with a nod and walked on into the corridor . |
| 29 | One of the boys in the back wound down his window and spat on to the roadside . |
| 30 | When he heard someone opening the bedroom door , he jumped out of the window and ran on to the roof . |