Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As club manager , however , he was widely travelled and widely respected on the Continent , spreading the name and prestige of Arsenal in his imperialist fashion . |
| 2 | Power stations have been designed and successfully operated on the basis of that knowledge . |
| 3 | Answer : Mulberry Harbour — a pre-fabricated , sectional , floating harbour , designed and built in Britain and successfully assembled on the beaches of Arromanches . |
| 4 | Whilst the basic facts about drinking are well known and mostly based on common sense , some of the issues surrounding alcohol abuse are a lot more complex . |
| 5 | Advisers in feedback sessions made few references to the self-appraisal and mostly reported on their own visits . |
| 6 | The six soldiers seized in the central Cambodian province of Kompong Thom on Dec. 1 ( and eventually released on Dec. 4 ) had been monitoring troop movements from a boat on the Stung Sen river . |
| 7 | The 1991 budget , whose approval by end-1990 was the precondition for a crucial US$2,000 million IMF emergency lending package , was debated by the Assembly on Dec. 27-30 and eventually passed on Dec. 30 by 214 votes to 128 . |
| 8 | About half the captured Africans survived the rigours of capture , passage , seasoning and eventually worked on plantations and , Kane concludes : ‘ only the strongest survived . ’ |
| 9 | We visited a number of unsuitable lettings as far afield as Dumfriesshire and Loch Rannoch , and eventually settled on a charming Georgian manse in the hamlet of Makerstoun , half-way between Kelso and St Boswells in the Border country , half a mile from the Tweed with , at the bottom of an orchard of Victoria plums , a village school suitable for Alastair and Fiona . |
| 10 | A particularly gruesome tale is appended to the embalming of Queen Katherine de Valois , wife of Henry V. Katherine died at Bermondsey Abbey ( by whose monks she was presumably embalmed ) on 3 January 1438 and eventually buried on 8 or 9 February 1438 in front of the high altar of the new Lady Chapel at Westminster Abbey — indeed hers was the first royal body to be buried there . |
| 11 | It is at least arguable : the employers did after all give in when faced with a strike , and effectively surrendered on this very question for the future , since they would have to pay the male rate to all the new ( male ) monotypists . |
| 12 | Current hyper-text systems have been widely and effectively used on relatively small data volumes . |
| 13 | James Howe attended the village school in Skirling but left still young and incompletely educated on account of his deafness . |
| 14 | It was far safer politically and economically to sit on the scientific fence . |
| 15 | I went back to my old eating habits and slowly put on more weight . |
| 16 | He stands back while Serafin comes into the centre of the room and slowly revolves on his heel . |
| 17 | Under the previous law the hooker was striking against no-one on his own ball and rarely competed on his opponents ball for he was involved in the eight man drive . |
| 18 | Studies from the community are few and predominantly based on single practices . |
| 19 | A Roman Catholic taxi driver was shot and badly injured on Nov. 13 by loyalist paramilitaries apparently in retaliation for the IRA murders . |
| 20 | There was another face then , which did n't have to be invented : a moustached face that had recently and endlessly appeared on the television news , the face of a man who was accused of battering to death the nanny of his children , of attempting to do the same to his wife . |
| 21 | Bickford was determined to make a safer type of fuse , and although he was no scientist he carried out a series of experiments with many different combinations of materials until , having nearly despaired of ever achieving his goal , he visited a friend in his rope walk and suddenly hit on the idea of spinning a light rope or cord round a tightly packed central core of gunpowder . |
| 22 | It was through this hedge that the naive teenager was dragged unconscious , beaten some more , and brutally raped on the tidy lawn of a smart bungalow . |
| 23 | ‘ Because he inherited , and because she knows he feels guilty , and so plays on it . |
| 24 | She had deliberately not revealed what she was looking for , and so insisted on evacuating every office before she began work . |
| 25 | Thomas Jackson may have found that his own baptism had not been recorded and so insisted on having it written in the margin twenty-two years later . |
| 26 | At Oyash , 50 miles north-east of Novosibirsk , a small wooden station with a distinctly Orientalist feel to its carved wooden decoration was dominated by a water tower , similarly decorated , which provided the upward thrust so common in Western stations in the nineteenth century and so lacking on the Trans-Siberian . |
| 27 | By the time he arrived at school-leaving age , he had realized the value of education for his career and so enrolled on a day-release college course , eventually completing a Full Technological Certificate , whilst training to be a painter and decorator . |
| 28 | In the graphic image taken from contemporary devotion of the lord who aspires to kiss Christ 's mouth in spiritual devotions and in doing so neglects acts of charity and so treads on his feet , Hilton skilfully combines all the strands of thought on the roles of action and contemplation in the Christian life as the means by which the individual works out his full spiritual potential ( 25 – 6.273 – 88 ) . |
| 29 | Andrew Gurr claimed to detect ‘ a rather remarkable pattern of shifts between ‘ you ’ and ‘ thou ’ ’ , only to admit that the ‘ sequence ’ as a whole showed ‘ a remarkable display of inconsistency ’ and so concentrated on Sonnets 1–17 . |
| 30 | Organizing resources : six case studies was a research report into specific aspects of resource centre organization and so concentrated on matters such as indexing and the allocation of funds . |