Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 2 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 3 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 4 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 6 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 7 | In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’ |
| 8 | Once well formed , remove the polythene bag and allow to grow on for a few weeks before potting on each plant singly . |
| 9 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 10 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 11 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 12 | It is not surprising that Dr L regarded the humanities with some contempt , arguing that students go to sign on for a medieval history course in the arts faculty and |
| 13 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 14 | And its been a day of tumbling wickets — with Worcestershire forced to follow on after a disastrous morning at the crease … |
| 15 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 16 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 17 | Worst Career Move of the month : ex-world 's greatest sleazeball James Woods trying to come on like a middle-aged woman 's dreamboat opposite Dolly Parton in Straight Talk , which also has the biggest supporting cast of the month : Griffin Dunne , John Sayles , Spalding Gray . |
| 18 | After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen . |
| 19 | Erm erm two tapes on the end of my second tape , I 'm hoping to get on to a third but it depends how erm far this conversation goes . |
| 20 | Any swing will be increased by the inertia of the glider because the mass is behind the wheel , trying to move on in a steady direction . |
| 21 | A few other media met the conditions of technology , but simply failed to catch on with a mass audience . |