Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout the Depression the NUAW clung on to its existence by retaining the rump of its membership — no more than 25000 — in its East Anglian stronghold . |
| 2 | One after the other , Nat , Aldo , Jimmy and Ben got on to their bikes and rode off . |
| 3 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 4 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 5 | So you get the impression here of Lincoln talking about an unusual crisis situation in a letter to one of his mates in eighteen sixty four Lincoln goes on Lincoln goes on to , in his letter to a friend to deny that civil war was fought to , to free the slaves er as a moral crusade , he wants no part of that argument . |
| 6 | Pascoe got on to his knees like a man at prayer , and hauled Singer towards him by his hair , punching twice , hard , as he pulled the man in . |
| 7 | In more recent years Jim passed on to me his copies of The Nottingham Graduate . |
| 8 | ‘ Go for the girl , ’ ordered Randy Sherwood , as South Sussex rode on to the field . |
| 9 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 10 | Unfairly , Sandra is still best known in Britain as ‘ Madonna 's best friend ’ , the possible — but in the end rather improbable — lesbian love interest that titillated the tabloids for a while until Maddy moved on to other mock shocks . |
| 11 | Herr Nordern sank on to the sofa and , astonishingly , found himself holding his wife 's hand , and feeling hers firmly gripping his . |
| 12 | Piero Fornasetti lives on in these pure silk ties |
| 13 | Apparently IBM , which offers the AP/6000 office package on the RS/6000 , is not at all perturbed about ICL muscling on to its territory with OfficePower . |
| 14 | This positive working relationship helped to strengthen the foundations of the sport , especially when Sarah moved on in 1987 to become a senior staff coach at the English Ski Council and Development Officer for freestyle . |
| 15 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 16 | Without his bad-tempered dad , Rab C. Nesbitt , to annoy him , Wee Burney got on with the job of handing a trophy and a Cash Club Account containing £10 to young Heather Stobbs . |
| 17 | Pat signs on in style |
| 18 | Leaving a toisech in charge , Thorfinn rode on with Tuathal and the advance group . |
| 19 | After this it heads up the 600ft Berrow Hill to go on to Berrow Green and then Ankerdine Hill . |
| 20 | Oldfield himself asked Branson to carry on as his manager , which Branson agreed to do for a new rate — Oldfield would pay him one barrel of beer a year . |
| 21 | She always wanted Mikey to go on to university and become a doctor or a lawyer . |
| 22 | Ultimately Childebert and Guntram patched up their quarrel , and Chilperic moved on to the defensive , only to be murdered at Chelles in 584 . |
| 23 | So Richard moved on to Limoges and there he was again proclaimed Duke in a ceremony witnessed by the Limousin chronicler Geoffrey-of Vigeois , who at that date was one of the monks of St Martial 's . |
| 24 | Then Travis moved on to his back , drawing her with him to rest her head in the angle of his shoulder . |
| 25 | ( Morley moved on to greater things as Britain 's leading rock journalist and then even greater things as the mentor behind Frankie Goes To Hollywood ) . |
| 26 | A minute later Payton moved on to a sloppy Jobling pass and shot into the side netting as fans jumped to their feet in anticipation of a goal . |
| 27 | When Laughton caught on to what was going on , he became paranoid and refused to work . |
| 28 | Richard came on to the terrace . |
| 29 | In winning the Light Manx Courtney added on to his Junior win on Wednesday and this was in addition to the Newcomers success he scored last year . |
| 30 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |