Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 32 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 33 | Because they arrive with an expectation of moving on within a few years they refrain — ; if only for reasons of emotional self-defence — from putting down ‘ roots ’ and involving themselves too closely in village affairs . |
| 34 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 35 | The society-s proposal to convert the church into dwellings followed on from the same sponsor 's conversion of a similar local and redundant Anglican church , St James 's , Knatchbull Road , Stockwell Park . |
| 36 | Why not extend you holiday by staying on for a few nights in Copenhagen ? |
| 37 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 38 | She would twitter on for a few sentences to get everyone else to give their opinions , then make a decision . |
| 39 | Leith snapped angrily — and realised she could go on in the same vein until she was blue in the face and it still would n't dent him . |
| 40 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 41 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 42 | The talking went on for a few moments then the sudden , all too familiar , sound of a mortar bomb leaving the barrel . |
| 43 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 44 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 45 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 46 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 47 | Forest manager Brian Clough is poised to challenge Middlesbrough 's resolve to hold on to the former England Under-21 international after having had Ripley watched during an impressive promotion season . |
| 48 | Whereas it is obvious that the launch must be abandoned anywhere near the ground , halfway up the launch it is reasonable to hold on for a few seconds to see if the speed picks up again . |
| 49 | The way things are , you might struggle on for a few months . |
| 50 | One possibility is to choose two or three at a time , as above , and then go on to a few others . |
| 51 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 52 | erm So now we started up the long term survey , and we 've now got 10 schools taking part , and they 're starting next week , and they 'll be carrying on in the same way as they were the pilot survey , taking the same measurements . |
| 53 | Why did n't they wait for the passengers to get off first , instead of squeezing themselves , their sacks of wheat and bicycles on at the same time that others were dragging their possessions off ? |
| 54 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 55 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 56 | This way of thinking is not reasonable , yet we carry on in the same way , generation after generation , never learning by our past mistakes . |
| 57 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 58 | All the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) , and the package need only be approved once for them all . |
| 59 | More than one DC can be activated via a package at the same time , up to a maximum of 10 , and all of the DCs can be worked on at the same time ( which is why they must all be handled through one user and one package ) . |
| 60 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |