Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 2 | But I 've fallen on to the floor often enough to know how to get up . |
| 3 | it just goes on to the edge here . |
| 4 | Andrus just pops in to see Sesostris and they have a bit of a chat , not a long one , they do n't even have a cup of coffee , mean bastards , both of them , and then Andrus goes on to the Cashier presumably with Sesostris 's authorization and the Cashier takes the money out of the safe and gives it to him . |
| 5 | In all the tanks where my fish are housed a small terracotta saucer is placed on to the bottom where the food is placed , this does help when it comes to cleaning the uneaten food off the aquarium bottom . |
| 6 | Yes and did you stay on at the hospital then ? |
| 7 | It was at this moment that I decided I must learn to dance , so that I could stay on at the pensione instead of roaming about . |
| 8 | When Granby House came on to the market early in 1983 , it looked more promising . |
| 9 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 10 | Extrusive igneous activity is more commonly referred to as volcanism and occurs where magma erupts on to the surface either as flowing lava , or as fragmental material thrown into the air by explosive volcanic activity . |
| 11 | But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on . |
| 12 | I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares . |
| 13 | Lord Deverill , having watched in silence , seeing his daughter was safe , popped his big horse over the gate and galloped on to the covert where hounds had checked , and so too finally had Buttons . |
| 14 | used on to the wire so that you ca n't take it off . |
| 15 | When the meal was ready Ianthe ate it in the dining room , which opened on to the garden now piled with drifts of sycamore leaves . |
| 16 | It had been he himself , Lewis , who had finally got on to the man there who was in the process of completing the proofs for the forthcoming seminal opus entitled Pre-Conquest Craftsmanship in Southern Britain , by Theodore S. Kemp , MA , DPhil ; the man who had been closeted with Kemp that fateful morning , and who had confirmed that Kemp had not left the offices until about 12.30 p.m . |
| 17 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 18 | 3 The children 's parents tell their version of the story , starting at the moment when they see the stains on Lollo 's gear , and going on to the point where they realise they ( or their children ) have discovered super penicillin . |
| 19 | Sara went to the top of the spiral staircase and crouched , listening to the argument going on on the floor below . |
| 20 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 21 | Tractor development is n't just going on in the west either . |
| 22 | When we held our first University reunion outside Birmingham , in London , I was delighted that more than 200 of you came along to hear what is going on in the University now . |
| 23 | That does n't mean you disregard adult commitments and disregard that there is some really shitty stuff going on in the world right now . |
| 24 | But it can hardly be argued that either carbonate or coal measure deposition is going on around the world today in anything like the way it has in the past . |
| 25 | And that I mean is one of the major criticisms against a functional approach , that sometimes you need to know what 's going on inside the box fully to be able to fully appreciate the behaviour anyway . |
| 26 | He came rushing on to the platform just as a train bound for Debden came in . |
| 27 | Maura had seen the hammer descend on to the cartridge just as she heard Roy 's voice come from the house . |
| 28 | if I hang on to that and put it away in the garage and hang on to the key so I can get the right , the right lock |
| 29 | I flicked the tape machine on at the point where I 'd suggested to Joe that he had swapped sides , from the analytical guitar teacher to being the very subject of such analysis himself . |
| 30 | Auntie kindly offers me tea as well , but I 'm beginning to feel iffy myself , so excuse myself , go outside , and quietly get on with the clearing up . |