Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] on [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ I think it 's time we ventured out on to some grass and a semblance of the real thing , ’ Biddy remarked , fastening her crash-helmet . |
2 | Everything could be converted tot he market : people and needs parcelled up on to some sort of national supermarket shelves . |
3 | This is not to say , as we shall see later on in this chapter and elsewhere in the book , that there is not a strict and systematic constraint on achievement imposed by ascribed status attributes in class societies too : those of race and gender are particularly significant ones in our society , for example . |
4 | I 've had a couple of nice chats with the people at GMTV , but I told them I was n't in a hurry to decide what I would do next and frankly I do n't envy the people who are going straight on to another show . ’ |
5 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
6 | As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’ |
7 | Erm well perhaps before I answer that question Mr Chairman , I could just briefly skim across the programme and bring you up to date as to where we are and then we 'll go directly on to that point . |
8 | A quick but careful briefing would , in most cases , prevent incidents such as someone lifting a wing without first checking that the other wing will not come down on to another glider 's canopy . |
9 | Unless the wing-tips are weighted down with a tyre , one wing lifting off the ground means that the other will come down on to another glider with expensive results . |
10 | It 's a little complicated what he says , and I do n't follow it all , but I know he said carry straight on down this street , so I thank him and go off . |
11 | This quotation has many interesting strands , some of which are explored later on in this book . |
12 | There are several examples like Les Perdris , quoted earlier on in this chapter , where the conventional , antifeminist moral counterpoints the wit and ingenuity of the woman of the tale which is , after all , what makes the tale interesting and amusing — what makes it a tale at all . |
13 | And erm the erm your view is completely blocked altogether when you 're coming up to that roundabout , as you know they come up from erm Southfield Road and Divinity Road which comes up on to that roundabout , and erm I think it 's very very dangerous . |
14 | The effectiveness of the Concentrated Reinforcement Programme was not addressed in this study , but was examined in a second study ( described later on in this chapter ) . |
15 | Raw data can be plotted straight on to such paper , as shown in figure 11.6 . |