Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 2 | All around him , the other England players gradually acclimatised to their new surroundings , pleasantly suprised by the facilities laid on by the Indian authorities . |
| 3 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
| 4 | UN specialists say that the regulations , plans and treaties agreed on by the Mediterranean countries have not significantly curbed the outpouring of sewage and industrial effluent from the 360 million people who live around the Mediterranean basin . |
| 5 | A statement agreed on by the Foreign Ministers asserted " the illegitimacy of all forms of Israeli settlement " in the occupied territories and stressed the importance of " full UN participation " and " effective EC participation " in the peace process . |
| 6 | The winners of the best gross trophy then decide , either by mutual agreement or by a play-off , on the player who goes on to the national championships . |
| 7 | Much of the work of the Department , of course , goes on outwith the physical confines of these rooms . |
| 8 | Most people do not wish to see what goes on behind the locked doors . |
| 9 | The last year has taught me how little I really knew about what goes on behind the wrought-iron gates of Buckingham Palace and the red brick walls of Kensington Palace . |
| 10 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 11 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 12 | Some Swiss wonder whether a family responsibility will perhaps work the other way , and he will stay on for the 1992 Olympics . |
| 13 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
| 14 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 15 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 16 | A determined show of political resistance from Mr Yeltsin and his supporters in other republics might help convince many old-fashioned Russian nationalists that hanging on to the Baltic republics is not worth a fight . |
| 17 | It was ridiculous that he should think of lowering himself through the floor of the carriage , that he should contemplate hanging for moments or minutes beneath the train , that he should consider allowing himself to fall on to the frozen stones between the wheels . |
| 18 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 19 | The television sits in the corner and leaks unsavoury glimpses of what 's really happening on to the faded carpets , and they hate it . |
| 20 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 21 | As the numbers and grades of medreses increased with the passage of time , so also did the numbers and grades of mevleviyets , the term used here in the sense which would appear to have been valid , with minor qualifications , at least from the latter half of the sixteenth century , namely as comprising principally the kazaskerliks and the important kadiliks-the mevleviyet kadiliks — to which one moved on from the higher medreses and through which one moved , if one were fortunate , eventually to reach the kazaskerliks and , by the end of the sixteenth century , the Muftilik . |
| 22 | Everyone was climbing on to the top bunks . |
| 23 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 24 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 25 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 26 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 27 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 28 | Lives on behind the wrinkled brows |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The loss of Acre in 1291 had a symbolic significance for all the nobilities of western Europe , but a sense of unfulfilled obligation still lingered on in the testamentary dispositions of Gascon nobles . |