Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] on [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 But then to pass them on to a third party is heinous . ’
2 Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle .
3 Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row .
4 Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place .
5 He should then carry you on with the next question .
6 If she could not get out the train would carry her on to the next station , to London Bridge , it would carry her on under the river .
7 Otherwise passing it on to a third party , but you 're not in the case of a married couple .
8 When a child has got the squeeze , he is allowed to hold on to it as long as he wants before passing it on to the next person .
9 I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court .
10 ‘ A person who receives goods on sale or return and at once passes them on to someone else under a like contract is entitled to demand them from that third person just as soon as the original owner of the goods has the right to demand them from him , but I am clear that , if he allows a period to elapse before he hands them on to a third person on sale or return , he has done an act which limits and impedes his power of returning the goods .
11 In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations .
12 yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group
13 This leads us on to a third important point about the relation of the Holy Spirit to Jesus .
14 This consideration leads us on to the third major argument supporting secularism , that based on a lively concern for justice , peace , goodwill and genuine respect for people .
15 But the notion of the ‘ analytic ’ graduate also raises some difficult questions about the impact of the undergraduate curriculum on student development , which leads us on to the next chapter .
16 Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place !
17 As each reader received a book he put the date opposite his name , followed by the date on which he finished it , before sending it on to the next person on the list .
18 You could also play this with team members at both ends of the room so that Brownies only have to run one length and pass it on to the next Brownie and so on .
19 Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two .
20 If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route .
21 Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot .
22 You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat .
23 But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast .
24 I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really .
25 Swing , he screamed at himself as his arms crashed into the pine , not holding , but the weight of his body already carrying him on in the next arc of his trajectory .
26 I remember on one occasion the four of us went down to Glastonbury Fair where he sang , but due to a balls-up over the sound and the electricity , they did n't put him on until the next day and that was at about 5.00 in the morning when the sun came through .
27 Then they pushed her , from one man to another , making her stumble as each man greedily explored her body before shoving her on to the next man .
28 How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street .
29 Police folklore tells of one officer who , having found a dead body on the street at the end of his duty , shifted it on to the next beat .
30 He said it does n't matter who does it on down the second time .
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