Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 2 | Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . |
| 3 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 4 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 5 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 6 | erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays . |
| 7 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 8 | At the Passover Eve meal the stories of the plagues are recited , and with each one a finger is dipped in a glass of wine and a drop of the wine let fall on to a plate . |
| 9 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 10 | A MOTHER who says she is homeless has been told she will not be rehoused after refusing to move on to an estate . |
| 11 | Loads should be divided equally before carrying them , so that there is no one-sided strain — and remember not to twist your back as you dump shopping on to a car seat . |
| 12 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 13 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |
| 14 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 15 | ‘ I hope to be a strong and enthusiastic supporter of the Government and I am going to stay on as a MP . ’ |
| 16 | well I mean you 're right in a way Bob those people who seem to get on within a company some of them are people who seem to be able to say the right words at the right time do n't they ? |
| 17 | I 've got to get on with a job I 'm paid to do . ’ |
| 18 | Having given you food for thought , I 'd like to move on to a discussion of the criteria and can I say right now that I think it would be right and proper to limit our discussion this morning to the criteria . |
| 19 | SCIENTISTS are beginning to catch on to a technique with the space-age name of FAB-MS ( fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry ) . |
| 20 | Imagine getting turned on by a biker ! |
| 21 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
| 22 | Since there was never anything at all gratuitously coarse or vulgar about Karajan 's music-making , it is true that he never attempted to graft on to a score like Verdi 's Falstaff additional jokes or belly-laughs . |
| 23 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 24 | ‘ You 're to ride Shine On for a spot of work . ’ |
| 25 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 26 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 27 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 28 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 29 | The Danish star failed to hang on to a shot from Steve Clarke and the ball ran away from him for Gavin Peacock to sweep it home and stun the United fans . |
| 30 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |