Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 2 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 3 | They climbed back into the jeep and went on along the rutted lane , lurching and splashing through deep puddles , the Brigadier worrying audibly all the way because ‘ things were n't as they should be . ’ |
| 4 | He waited ‘ till the tram drew abreast of the silent jeep and leaped on to the running board beside the driver . |
| 5 | I waved to Didier and walked on between the pollarded limes . |
| 6 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 7 | She closed her eyes and dropped on to the bed , her heart pounding . |
| 8 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 9 | They walked down under the archway of trees to the Littles ' cottage , stood outside the gate chatting to Zach and carried on down the lane . |
| 10 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 11 | I wrench the steering-wheel back from uncertainty and thrash on up the hill . |
| 12 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 13 | He mumbled his thanks and strode on up the road . |
| 14 | We started out into the snow and stepped on to the ice-covered apron ; that soon took the look off Nathan 's face . |
| 15 | Rain was dripping through the roof in several places , falling with a recurrent plop and splash on to the wet floor-boards . |
| 16 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 17 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 18 | Yes , there are times we should cut the crap and get on with the ‘ real ’ issues of starvation and disease , but to dismiss all problems of prejudice and inequality as whining self-pity is callous beyond belief . |
| 19 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 20 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 21 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 22 | Many Elves did return but others , such as those in Athel Loren , refused to abandon their adopted homeland and stayed on in the Old World . |
| 23 | ‘ Can we cut the expert critical review and get on with the job of finding out where Jenny is ! ’ |
| 24 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 25 | Cornelius scooped up his chum and scrambled on to the nearest table , scattering antique French tennis racquets . |
| 26 | Old Red acknowledged that with a nod and walked on into the corridor . |
| 27 | One of the boys in the back wound down his window and spat on to the roadside . |
| 28 | When he heard someone opening the bedroom door , he jumped out of the window and ran on to the roof . |
| 29 | For the grass , colour royal icing green and spread on to the cake drum , making little tufts with a palette knife . |
| 30 | The Nene rises one mile west of Badby and flows on through the County , passing Peterborough and on to the Wash , 110 miles away . |