Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the old [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 2 | it 's so new to them that they 're bothering to cost it , but how did we go on in the older days ? |
| 3 | No matter which coach you went on in the old days ( and the Brightside and Carbrook Co-op ones were the best ) there was always a shilling sweep for the biggest fish and another shilling for the best roach . |
| 4 | Most letters asked for autographs or photographs , some complained of or praised a person interviewed or view expressed , and there was always a sprinkling of old dears short of correspondents who rambled on about the old days . |
| 5 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |