Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roared on by the partisan Swansea crowd , Wales hit back with a brilliant two-try burst in the space of four minutes . |
| 2 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 3 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 4 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 5 | The 29-year-old Scot , a £225,000 summer capture from Millwall , has struggled to find his form on Wearside but all that changed when he came on for the injured Don Goodman after just 12 minutes of Saturday 's game against Barnsley . |
| 6 | But as the pony trotted on under the cloud-filled November sky the voice that soon stole into Abie Klugman 's mind was not from his past or his future , but from his present . |
| 7 | From Dr Jaffery 's rooftop you could look out , past the anonymous walls which face on to the Old Delhi lanes , and see into the shady courtyards and the gardens which form the real heart of the Old City . |
| 8 | It was agreed that only ten people should tramp round the tiny cottage at a time ; the remainder were forced to mingle with the morning shoppers and then to walk on to the old St Mary 's Chapel , which once had held the shrine of Our Lady of Bradstow and to which passing ships would lower their sails in honour . |
| 9 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
| 10 | Moreover , the SPOs — who were intended to be the key link between ‘ bottom-up ’ development and strategic planning — had large managerial responsibilities and were grafted on to the developmental CMHT model rather than being key initiators of it . |
| 11 | How did he get on with the pre-war Vienna Philharmonic ? |
| 12 | The philosophy of the new SZ series follows on from the successful SZH research stereo providing interchangeability and versatility — indeed the SZ heads can be used with the SZH stand for superior transmitted light . |
| 13 | Looking round at the elegant dining room , waited on by the unobtrusive Friedrich , Peter Müller wondered what it would be like to live on such a scale , with so much money to make life as smooth as silk . |
| 14 | United 's best chance of the half came just a minute later ; Martin Foyle ran on to the perfect Paul Simpson through ball , he actually got past goal keeper Andy Gosney but he was forced just a little bit wide . |
| 15 | It will be replaced either by Trafalgar Day in October or an extra day tacked on to the existing August Bank Holiday . |
| 16 | Following on from the informal Malta summit in December 1989 [ see p. 37110 ] , the meetings were hailed as a new beginning in US-Soviet relations , despite acknowledged continuing differences on a number of key bilateral and international issues . |
| 17 | ( At Hellesdon the Way carries on from the five-mile Norwich Riverside Walk ) . |