Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marks appear weighty and assertive if driven on to the canvas with a painting knife . |
| 2 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 3 | Conference , could you be upstanding and welcome on to the platform , Catherine and , delegates from the Lancashire region where last year 's congress was held , to unveil the G M B banner . |
| 4 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 5 | She 'd got the job after being made redundant and signing on at the job centre . |
| 6 | There 's a big dent in the nearside sill , but that was the result of Darren hitting something solid while pulling on to the grass verge of a Lake District lane to let another car through . |
| 7 | Er these are sort of parties that start at midnightish and go on through the night . |
| 8 | As the traffic slowed , he had thrust the door open and rolled on to the tarmac between the lines of cars . |
| 9 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |