Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
2 I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office .
3 We got on to the LRDG ration scale which was different from the rest of the army .
4 Let's r log on to the A drive first presumably ?
5 We live on the fourth floor of one building , in what , by Chinese standards , are luxurious conditions : we each have our own bedroom , living room , and bathroom , with drinking water , cigarettes , and thermos flasks of hot water ( for making Chinese tea ) laid on in the living room .
6 Our chalet was spacious and the meals laid on by the live-in girl were cordon bleu quality .
7 Despite their early start , they still attended the dinner laid on by the Flanders rugby authorities .
8 The Doctor was marched on to the flight deck of the F61 at pistol point .
9 TAFF Gregory , the Army cook who won a Gulf War BEM ( Eating Out August 14 ) , has quickly marched on from the Hartforth Hall Hotel at Gilling West , near Richmond .
10 These are not paintings employing the wonderful accidental effects of free watercolour washes that so many artists adopt , though most of this goes on with the underneath base washes .
11 A great inducement of ‘ start-ups ’ or ‘ green-field projects ’ , where the original investors are in on the ground floor , is that they will make a killing if the company one day goes on to the Stock Exchange , or is gobbled up by a predator in a takeover bid .
12 with primer on , spraying inside and the outside , taking off both the wings and bump bit where the bonnet goes on to the slam pan , got ta take the er the wings out , I mean the , the lights out anyway .
13 How how can we tell , because as an officer , and this is this is Richard 's point , as an officer how do you know what goes on in the barrack room ?
14 Most of the exchange of information goes on before the Christmas holiday — like yesterday and today when 12 people were at their computers .
15 Indeed , he went so far as to say that he was almost dreading stepping on to the golf course , full of grim forebodings on the practice ground and no better on the practice green .
16 It required the outbreak of war and the threatened imminence of defeat to produce the power-sharing of 1940 , which led on to the power transference of 1945 .
17 Sandblasting of the Great Slab area at Stanage to remove graffiti painted on over the August bank holiday has had the beneficial side effect of totally cleaning the afflicted area of chalk and rubber marks , and has also increased the friction .
18 Lucifer pointed out to Eve the forbidden apple on the flat tree painted on to the back panel of the cart .
19 A group of businessmen and politicians decided on Sept. 21 to carry on with the referendum proposal and on Sept. 26 began collecting signatures in favour of the referendum .
20 Yes because in the summer I mean you , some time in the , in this next term would be the ideal thing really because that , if she can stay on for the summer term
21 ‘ The fact of the matter is , several of the teachers on the course you missed because of skiving off on holiday , a number of them have asked me if they can stay on for the autumn term .
22 She wondered if he 'd stay on in the motel business , or move out .
23 If Charlton does stay on after the World Cup , he 'll find it hard to live up to the high standards he has set .
24 Well the thing is you see I think wha from what I 've gathered on from the radio programme is that the actual erm the attitude of the kids to the metro had got so much worse that they 're having to do something about it
25 I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’
26 We got a letter , passed on from the Newcastle office this morning concerning a woman who wants to sell her bungalow .
27 Does that mean that there is now a waiting list to go on to the waiting list ?
28 It also made me think that perhaps I had more control over the whole presentation generally which is my biggest concern so get up there and just do some and therefore it 's going to go on to the confidence side of it .
29 Anyhow , whatever it was , maybe a little , as Jan says , he also had a f a bad flu bug at a bad time anyhow he crashed out of the computer science course and he announced that he was only regarding the computer science course as being a stepping stone to being a teacher so the sensible thing to do would be to go on to the teacher training course at Lancashire , an education course , cos that 's what he wanted to do .
30 My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm
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