Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Without thinking , she drank deeply from her glass , all the time her eyes riveted on to those early leaders as the brandy burnt its way down her throat .
2 ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’
3 Er , her father lived on for another six years .
4 Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare .
5 Many builders of smaller houses in the Cotswolds clung on to this much-loved style which they had so perfected .
6 She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’
7 If it goes on for another 2 weeks , that is a distinct possibility .
8 But Mum goes on about that wretched place as though he was chief jailer at Broadmoor .
9 Who knows what goes on behind those net curtains .
10 Er , what goes on behind those closed doors , even I do n't know .
11 I know I do have the confidence of the backbenchers to carry on with this particular job as well as the confidence of the leader and the shadow Chancellor .
12 When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community .
13 I have to go on with this particular trip .
14 The slump is likely to go on for another two years .
15 He cleaned up his act , quit taking uppers and downers with the help of his wife and the Betty Ford Clinic , and now looks set to go on for another 40 years .
16 He 's got to go on for another ten lines , piling on more and more out of the way references to classical paradises so that he can give it all away for God .
17 It showed a little girl with a garland around her neck , and a grass skirt , on an island , being spied on by this little boy through a telescope .
18 At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's .
19 Education in art and design is carried on in many different institutions ranging from polytechnics and colleges of higher education through specialist colleges of art to colleges of further education and technical colleges .
20 It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself .
21 It is one of the facts of the computer world that there have always been far too many different printer types for the programmers to support and printer manufacturers have never managed to catch on to this simple fact .
22 The British and other European countries knew that this would allow US airlines to fly from the USA , pick up passengers in Britain or in Europe , and fly on to any other destination , which would mean complete US domination of civil aviation .
23 I think we owe it to people like or at least to give them another crack at the whip to see if they 've come on in that interim period cos it 's a good six months since we interviewed
24 The monotheistic forms of religion are the higher , for they more clearly and purely bring the God-consciousness to expression , ‘ and all others are related to them as subordinate forms , from which men are destined to pass on to those higher ones ’ .
25 However , Merrill Lynch is running the risk of suffering a substantial loss if the market price holds on to any substantial premium .
26 Piero Fornasetti lives on in these pure silk ties
27 Hold on to that bloody cider , ’ Billy yelled Yanto twisted around on his seat and looked at Billy .
28 We sailed on for another two weeks .
29 Rather than carry on with such negative action , John and Colin decided to do something more constructive and let the general public know just what their activities involved .
30 we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about .
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