Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] a [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 2 | Here the coal that was brought up from underground was tipped on to a slow-moving endless belt : the boys , standing alongside , took off the slag or rubbish that was mixed with the coal . |
| 3 | Cut the rich fruit cake in half diagonally and place one half on top of the other to form a triangle , sandwiching on with a little apricot glaze . |
| 4 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 5 | He trudged on down a wide muddy road , past the weird triangular shapes of sod-built huts , glimpsing through the smoky windows the red light of a fire , and outside the pools of yellowish water with the bits of sky that had fallen into them , and bog trunks lying half rotten . |
| 6 | Their best effort of the entire proceedings was a superb save in 75 minutes by keeper Kevin McKeown who brilliantly touched away a searing drive by full back John Drake who had moved on to a Totten free kick . |
| 7 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 8 | This leads on to a dramatic low and a severe craving for another dose of the stuff . |
| 9 | When I 've bought my sons their shirts I 'm going on to a good academic bookshop to get an item for myself — a book called something like Syntax and Significance : A Cognitive Approach . |
| 10 | ‘ We inhabitants of the post-historical world ’ , he trumpets , ‘ will have to keep in mind that the truly fundamental transformation in world politics are not going on in a desolate Middle Eastern desert , but back in cette vielle Europe which was the cradle of the idea of human freedom ’ . |
| 11 | Finally , wrap the ribbon around the edge of the cake drum , securing on with a little spare royal icing . |
| 12 | Norwegian Jacquard : This stitch design option will allow you to knit many different colours in a design style that is best described as based on the traditional Scandinavian type of pattern , where small designs are laid on to a multi-coloured striped background . |
| 13 | But it is not at all obvious to the audience how the couple have arrived at this happier state of affairs , neither is it entirely clear what Bill Alexander hopes to add by exercising his powers of invention on the play 's Prologue , in which an alcoholic tinker called Christopher Sly is persuaded by a group of gentry to think of himself an aristocrat — the story of the shrew being laid on as a suitable dramatic entertainment . |
| 14 | Clearing slips are collected by LIFFE officials and the details entered on to a computerized matching system . |
| 15 | The Heathertons lived in a tall grey house in Bath Street , in the best quarter of town ; it had coachman 's premises at the back , giving on to a narrow cobbled lane . |
| 16 | As a result the Liberal government elected in 1906 , urged on by a clamorous radical wing but aware also of the doubts of many of its supporters , introduced new but moderate social measures . |
| 17 | Sachin Tendulkar moved quickly on to 19 at which stage the Indian was twice put down , first by Mark Nicholas at short cover and then by David Gower who could not hold on to a hot left-handed chance at second slip , the unlucky bowler on both occasions being Connor . |
| 18 | She was waved on by a sharp-eyed young officer , who boasted he could smell a smuggler from fifty yards away . |
| 19 | This was t I mean when you think about it er it was good fun and er eventually people realized what was happening and of course they knew what was happening but that went on for a long long time . |
| 20 | War began with an unsuccessful attempt to return to the city-plundering strategy of the previous century , went on with a great commerce-raiding voyage round the world by Anson , and ( not before it had at last ended the trading career of the South Sea Company ) was swallowed up by the more far-flung clash of British and French . |
| 21 | The line went on into a big Jamaican area , and I was the only white left in a full carriage . |
| 22 | ‘ The next morning , ’ he went on in a flat emotionless voice , ‘ I rose late . |
| 23 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 24 | A detailed kinematic understanding is thus available and this can lead on to a comprehensive dynamic and performance analysis if so desired . |
| 25 | The animal took no notice and clopped on at a steady plodding pace through the narrow turning . |
| 26 | Mr Krenz speaking to workers yesterday at the Bergmann-Borsig machine factory outside East Berlin — a hotbed of critical opposition and the birthplace of East Germany 's first independent trade union — reiterated that he was prepared to have his position as party leader voted on by a new central committee . |
| 27 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 28 | The basic divide is over whether the future management objectives can be achieved on a voluntary basis , as at present , or whether they should be taken on by a powerful national park authority , with separate funding and planning powers . |
| 29 | Secure loosely with a piece of string or an elastic band and put on to a microwave-safe roasting rack over a disk containing 3 tbsp stock . |
| 30 | Mrs Dass come on in a fluffy magenta dress and awarded the first prize to last year 's carnival queen and the second to Mr Swayles and the third to Mrs Muller . |