Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] on [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Take the second stitch and place it on to the first needle . |
| 2 | Take the third stitch and place it on to the next left-hand side empty needle and so on all along the row . |
| 3 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 4 | He should then carry you on with the next question . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I did take it up with the Attorney-General but he felt he could n't refer it on to the next court . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | You should take it in but you did n't — just rolled it on to the next beat . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | How could they , she thought in sudden sentiment , and the anger carried her on to the next street . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He said it does n't matter who does it on down the second time . |
| 25 | You did n't turn them on until the second part . |
| 26 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 27 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |