Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see . |
| 2 | Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students . |
| 3 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
| 4 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 6 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 7 | The small procession moved on towards a set of metal stairs that led them down to the second landing . |
| 8 | Somehow , Dai , goaded on by a blend of Bernard 's impatience and supervision , got them working . |
| 9 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
| 10 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
| 11 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
| 12 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
| 13 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
| 14 | Immortalized by the soldiery in the war of 1914–18 , Fred Karno 's Army lives on as a descriptor of chaotic organization . |
| 15 | Building extends the grammar , by correlation ; but it can also be looked on as a way of extending the vocabulary of the learner . |
| 16 | She feels sorry for smokers — ‘ Nowadays , I think it is looked on as a sort of disability ’ . |
| 17 | Hours on , a patch of green deep in a valley : and the valley opening on to a maze of broken fields . |
| 18 | Artist Janet Margrave has created a window opening on to a scene of flowers , ivy-clad trellis , a rush fringed pool and trees . |
| 19 | ‘ Yes — bedroom , bathroom , a door opening on to a section of enclosed veranda , and an open veranda beyond that , looking down on to a rather beautiful tropical garden . |
| 20 | Woking keeper Laurence Batty played on after a clash of heads with striker Kurt Nogan , but was sent for hospital tests after the game . |
| 21 | Curve the body to one side and hold on to a part of your leg that you can reach easily , stretching the other arm straight up . |
| 22 | New Scientist sailed on with a discussion of the Roman Catholic Church 's acceptance of science as long as science accepted miracles and where did that leave both sides . |
| 23 | Meat Loaf came on to a volley of missiles and for one , beautiful moment , it seemed he was going to get down from the stage and beat some arsehole to death . |
| 24 | The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton . |
| 25 | Once this thesaurus has been devised it will be mapped on to a set of codes , which will allow the information to be communicated electronically throughout the NHS . |
| 26 | Everything seemed to have moved on to a level of fantasy . |
| 27 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 28 | Starting from the simplest and most chaste of forms , rooted in a combination of pioneering vernacular and colonial buildings , the American station swiftly moved on to a riot of revivalist and hybrid styles in a complex process of architectural grafting which mirrored the increasingly diverse origins of its immigrant population . |
| 29 | This output is in turn fed to a monostable made up from NAND gates IC4c , IC4d which is turned on for a period of a few milliseconds determined by the values of resistor R17 and capacitor C4 . |
| 30 | Highlights include ‘ Allergy plight of nice-girl Nicky — ‘ one sip of vodka turns me into a sex maniac ’ ’ ( News of the World magazine ) and ‘ Women could be turned on by a chunk of cheddar ’ ( People ) . |