Example sentences of "on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 2 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 3 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 4 | He ate a gargantuan meal , starting with some plovers ' eggs they had overlooked earlier , working on through a few roast geese with a brace or so of ducklings on the side , and ending with one half of a cheese and a couple of bowls of fruit . |
| 5 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 6 | Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields . |
| 7 | They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid . |
| 8 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 9 | This expression can be converted to a sum of squares simply by rotating the Cartesian frame around ON through an angle . |
| 10 | Only the Russians and some German Social Democrats keep banging on about a neutral Germany . |
| 11 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 12 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 13 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 14 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 15 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 17 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 18 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 19 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 20 | Well they got a Sierra she 's on about a Fiat . |
| 21 | I know he w she were on about a room were n't she ? |
| 22 | I thought I thought you were on about a book that |
| 23 | Yeah Craigy were on about a bus , a bus and erm little'un said bus . |
| 24 | On about a spider |
| 25 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 26 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 27 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 28 | And the woman — whose name , it happened , was Aurora — whittered on about an infidelity performed against her by a titled husband , an imminent divorce , a Sunday paper scandal . |
| 29 | I was watching the Scum Derby on Sky this weekend , and managed to catch some of the phone-in afterwards , where someone was going on about an Autobiography written by the froggy himself . |
| 30 | they were , they were doing a play or something and it , it mentioned about er , erm , what did it mention ? , it was a bit rude any way this play and it oh it was on about an erection or something and Geoffrey said his trousers his new trousers were sticking out a bit peculiar |