Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 2 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 3 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 4 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 5 | If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question . |
| 6 | Once the first grading has been successfully completed , the student goes on to the next stage of training , which concerns itself with basic semi-free sparring . |
| 7 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 8 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 9 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 10 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 11 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 12 | If he does this then a sociological perspective has been brought to bear on the first idea and the researcher is ready to go on to the next step , which will be one of limiting his ideas to a feasible scheme of work . |
| 13 | When you are ready to go on to the next potency , the whole process is repeated with a single poppy seed granule of the desired strength . |
| 14 | We must insist on a system of tests that will be for the benefit of the pupils ; that will test what each one can do in practical work and in theoretical understanding ; and will serve as a motive for each to go on to the next stage . |
| 15 | But evolution ploughed on remorselessly , enabling only the most adaptable to go on to the next stage . |
| 16 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 17 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 18 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 19 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 20 | That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being . |
| 21 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 22 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 23 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 24 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 25 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 26 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 27 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'll be right here beside you , ’ she added , climbing on to the next horse . |
| 29 | Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off . |
| 30 | The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters . |