Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cheered on by the huge German crowd , who 'd given him a two-minute standing ovation when his record was read out during the knock-up , Becker was devastating in the first set . |
| 2 | After we 'd agreed the itinerary I got on with the detailed flying planning , using the new French VFR maps and the American TPC ( Tactical Pilotage Charts ) which we bought from Stamfords in London . |
| 3 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 5 | It 's the relationship between the client and the advertiser which goes on for the next two years . |
| 6 | As the hunt goes on for the missing millions of the family 's crashed empire , Pandora , 32 , beamed as she declared : ‘ People will probably wonder how on earth Kevin managed it with all he 's got on his mind . ’ |
| 7 | The score then goes on to the last musical number in Act 3 , ‘ A thousand thousand ways ’ , which is a song repeated by the chorus . |
| 8 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 9 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 10 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 11 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 12 | When that happens , you simply ask the reader to carry on to the next shock-horror exclusive , and the next , and the next , and so on , until the point is driven home . |
| 13 | The FIVE NATIONS COMMITTEE has agreed to carry on with the successful recent experiment of having the referees ‘ wired ’ to the commentators ' headphones during games . |
| 14 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 15 | Another powerful reason why improved mud buildings are not catching on in the tropical Third World is that for poor families , housing is not the first priority . |
| 16 | This entirely new production , due to go on to the Royal National Theatre in London , remains true to the essence of Lorca 's play , and as vibrant as the heat and colours of ‘ the land of sun and shadow ’ . |
| 17 | For example , Pete Coleman had to carry a shooting-stick for Greg Norman to sit on in the 1982 Australian Open , and in Zambia a caddie I saw on my Safari Tour travels carried an extra that could have proved an even bigger life-saver than the carrots that are pulled out of the bag by Sam Torrance 's caddie Malcolm Mason ( the carrots are supposed to calm Sam down on the greens ) : the Zambian caddie was carrying President Kaunda 's bag in a pro-am , and surreptitiously tucked away was a gun , just in case somebody tried to assassinate the golfing president while he decided on a four- or a five-iron . |
| 18 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 19 | The avenues explored in applying neural computing to these three applications and the results from these have been reported on at the regular monthly Club meetings . |
| 20 | His turnout exceedingly elegant , the father was walking on over the hard curd-white earth down the double track of the carts towards the small port on the coast ahead . |
| 21 | She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box . |
| 22 | A Democrat , unlike his famous cousin , the Republican ex-President Theodore Roosevelt , Franklin moved on to the national political scene as Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Woodrow Wilson 's administration in 1913 . |
| 23 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 24 | My Working Group recommended that knowledge about language should be an integral part of work in English , not a separate body of knowledge to be added on to the traditional English curriculum . |
| 25 | That is not the case when they are added on to the normal uprating statement , as has happened today . |
| 26 | The screens are slotted on to an amazing new printer which cost the company an arm and a leg a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | The Caribbean lapped on to the deserted palm-fringed beach just beyond . |
| 28 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 29 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 30 | Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift . |