Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |
| 2 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 3 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 4 | Two minutes after the interval he darted on to a long through ball and scored with a low shot . |
| 5 | However , Newell made amends in the 64th minute when he raced on to a hopeful through ball , rounded Hitchcock and fired home . |
| 6 | This onslaught from Bush , together with intensifying questioning of Perot 's attitude to , and respect for , civil liberties , saw the would-be independent candidate driven on to the defensive towards the end of the month . |
| 7 | Does it hold on to the exclusive for its major shareholders or go with its journalistic impulses ? |
| 8 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 9 | The English response was ineffective : the campaigns of the 1340s and 1350s had been essentially plundering raids , launched into enemy territory from secure bases ; but after 1369 England was thrown on to the defensive in Aquitaine , and she had little idea how to fight a defensive war . |
| 10 | Having introduced us to the widely ranging Cichlasoma family , and given ideas of how to keep them , our three cichlid experts , JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER AND PHIL ROBINSON move on to the nitty-gritty of tanks and equipment . |
| 11 | When the master file is to be reorganized , this ancillary file will be sorted into descending count order , and the records are read from the old direct file and loaded on to the new in this order . |
| 12 | The Democratic Congressmen and Senators , who yesterday scurried to give bi-partisan support to what looked like a patriotic pre-Christmas success , may be forced to think again if this drags on into a stand-off with American hostages in Noriega 's hands . |