Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What do the journalists type on at the Post ? ’ |
| 2 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 3 | Koch resolutely stayed away from America 's wheel , letting Buddy Melges get on with the job of dispatching Conner . |
| 4 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 5 | SECURITY lapses at Frankfurt airport that let a hijacker walk on to a jet with a gun hidden under his hat will be tracked down , the German government pledged yesterday . |
| 6 | Should Blackburn hold on to the end , do n't taunt Kenny Dalglish about buying the title . |
| 7 | Swarf smiled in triumph , letting the body fall on to the ground . |
| 8 | Did Tolkien go on from the exploitation of occasional scenes to the manipulation of plot , the creation of recognisably symbolic characters , the thing the TLS reviewer asked for so plaintively , ‘ a clear message for the modern world ’ ? |
| 9 | With luck , these two new Windows-based spreadsheets should help Lotus hang on to the 40% of the market it currently controls . |
| 10 | At the time I was mucking out the byre stalls , and piling the manure on top of my big heap when I saw the lights go on in the house . |
| 11 | Jazz switched the television off and came outside with them and they kicked a tin-can round the field a bit and then sat on some dumped oil-drums and watched the lights come on along the front and smoked a cigarette and reflected on their fate . |
| 12 | We ca n't go on paying ourselves that sort of money , we ca n't go on , and Mr I know in a minute we 'll talk about the number of people who attend committee meetings erm and sit in on them , and that 's increased considerably , erm , so I think it 's important that we do get down to this problem , we grasp the nettle , and I , I believe that will mean that we start to look seriously at reducing the number of times members come and talk here , and perhaps we let the officers get on with the action that they should be getting on with |
| 13 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |