Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb pp] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'll see that your salary is made up to this date and a cheque posted on to you . ’ |
| 2 | They always fit perfectly , look painted on , and some have caused quite a furore in the past . |
| 3 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 4 | ( a ) The Agency Principle Section 5 of the Partnership Act ( power of partner to bind the firm ) states that : Every partner is an agent of the firm and his other partners for the purpose of the business of the partnership ; and the acts of every partner who does any act for carrying on in the usual way of business of the kind carried on by the firm of which he is a member bind the firm and his partners , unless the partner so acting has in fact no authority to act for the firm in the particular matter , and the person with whom he is dealing either knows that he has no authority , or does not know or believe him to be a partner . |
| 5 | Television and radio carried brief reports , while the the story squeezed on to the front page of the national evening newspaper Izvestia , between larger accounts of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's row with Ukraine and an explosion at an Armenian arms depot . |
| 6 | He still did n't know whose side to take when Mum carried on at us but she never came to the shed while we were chopping wood with him , so we had a retreat . |
| 7 | Rough hands gripped him by his crotch and the back of his neck , holding him aloft like a defenceless struggling insect tipped on to its back . |
| 8 | Kate had somehow knocked over her cup , and tea spilled on to the tray , splashing her skirt . |
| 9 | She watched it keenly through opera glasses from the third row of the empty stalls , and I do n't know how the poor actress carried on under the circumstances . |
| 10 | Willie carried on following the dots between the lines and then stopped . |
| 11 | The car rolled on to its roof , trapping him . |
| 12 | The straw ‘ hat ’ was put on the tray once again , a maid was called and the tray lifted on to her head . |
| 13 | The momentum carried on until 4am and then tapered off before starting again at a more reasonable hour on Friday morning . |
| 14 | This becomes technically possible for Cabinet government , a private practice carried on between appointed adults , only when the Cabinet Office archive has become available under the thirty-year rule . |
| 15 | In particular the attention of the court was drawn to clause 1 of the agreement which referred to the practice carried on by the parties as a " practice of general medical practitioners " . |
| 16 | Contemporary with the alterations to the main east-west road , at least one or perhaps two possible public buildings were constructed immediately to the south on Sites 1 and 2 , each with a frontage carried on four columns and set so close to the road that the new roadside drains had to be diverted . |
| 17 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 18 | Then this pantomime carried on from the coast . |
| 19 | Politicking carried on within the coalitions during both world wars and the financial crisis , but in a muted , coded and generally responsible way . |
| 20 | The third is the condition imposed on who can attend as a full voting delegate . |
| 21 | A great deal hung on the relationship participants were able to establish , and in this any status differential could prove problematic . |
| 22 | Despite two late goals by MBS , the BNFL side hung on to win 4–3 in a thrilling encounter in the Midlands . |
| 23 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 24 | Twelve to fourteen you did that , and I took papers out for a newsagent called on erm . |
| 25 | It has been reported that spontaneous cell mediated cytotoxicity brought on by mononuclear cells can be inhibited by SASP but not by corticosteroid , and that ADCC is not influenced by SASP or corticosteroid . |
| 26 | They arrived in July 1547 and took the castle , after a brief siege featuring a spectacular air-battle in which the outer walls were battered by artillery hoisted on to the church steeple of St Salvator 's College and the abbey walls ; the lairds disappeared into prison in France , and Knox and others went to the galleys . |
| 27 | Times have changed dramatically for the worse in Wales , a condition brought on as much as anything by the masochistic fixture-making which has brought about so much contact between the countries since the Welsh were blacked out in the 1987 World Cup semi-final . |
| 28 | In 1589 he was nominated by Lord Burghley for a position of a Judge , an office he humbly declined , giving as his reason failing eye sight which hampered his work , a condition brought on by continuous study of old documents . |
| 29 | And then , his right hand , rising to undo the buttons of her high-collared black dress , his other arm unconsciously straining her to him , closer and closer so that she could feel his arousal brought on a memory so dreadful to McAllister , a memory which she had fought against for months — and fear suddenly won the battle . |
| 30 | A 79-year-old woman who was attacked and robbed of her handbag as she walked near Gateshead town centre has been admitted to hospital for observation after suffering a heart flutter brought on by stress . |