Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] on [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 2 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 3 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 4 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 5 | Then those same genes either get passed on to the next generation or they do n't . |
| 6 | Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net . |
| 7 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 8 | ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand . |
| 9 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 10 | The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops . |