Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
2 | His modest apology for tardiness in producing this volume is unnecessary in any terms , considering the magnitude of his task , and when in addition one realises that he has pressed on with the completion of the work during his convalescence from a serious illness , it is clear that his apology should be replaced by the public 's commendation . |
3 | I think it 's more likely to happen on the third or fourth flight , once the bird has caught on to the idea of freedom , which is why it 's important to keep it reasonably hungry . |
4 | Baton Rouge , Louisiana-based Fifth Generation Systems , a little spitfire in the MS-DOS world , has moved on to the Unix scene with its first Unix product , Fastback Plus Unix , a $345 backup and restore utility for Intel Corp 80386 and 80486 machines running UnixWare , Interactive , SCO Unix , System V.3/V.4 and Consensys V.4.2 . |
5 | It is undoubtedly a good thing that royal reporting has moved on from the tradition of deferential reverence in which James Whitaker first learned his trade . |
6 | Verily , the game has moved on from the days when Bobby Locke could , for instance , win seven tournaments in his baptismal year on the US circuit , and four Open Championships on this side of the Atlantic , and yet virtually never feel the need to depart from his habitual draw . |
7 | For example , he noted : ‘ There are certain of these streaks of pigment which appear licked on with the point of the tongue . ’ |
8 | On the evening of Thursday 1 August , The Royal Academy will open its doors for Country Living readers to view the exhibition that has become on of the highlights of the London Season . |
9 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
10 | The former England winger said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . |
11 | He said : ‘ As someone who has spouted on over the years about contracts , I am not about to walk out on my one with Crystal Palace . ’ |
12 | What I want to make sure first of all is that erm you understand what has gone on before the scene that we actually want to find ourselves in . |
13 | IN THE first part of this book Michael Shallis gives an interesting non-technical account of how modern physics has gone on from the common-sense notion of time to a whole series of fundamental changes . |
14 | It would be absurd to adopt a rigidly determinist view of what has gone on in the formation of culturally transmitted marriage laws . |
15 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
16 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
17 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
18 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
19 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
20 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
21 | ‘ Women get turned on in the head first so speaking to them can work wonders . ’ |
22 | It would start out trying to reach us , but then get pulled on to the floor . ’ |
23 | They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law . |
24 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
25 | The chief inspector disliked his arrogant manner , his jocularity at her expense , particularly when the only weapon she had was bluff and she was vulnerable for having pressed on with the case against Spittals ' opposition . |
26 | ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni . |
27 | Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did . |
28 | Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting . |
29 | Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here . |
30 | On average , a sixteen-year-old recruit to farming will have moved on by the age of twenty-three — ; usually to the building and construction or road haulage industries . |