Example sentences of "[verb] on [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucker is having none of my gung-ho enthusiasm and drives on regardless to the end of the peninsula . |
| 2 | Mrs Roberts , indeed , who felt completely disoriented , clung on absurdly to the reality of Martin Parr . |
| 3 | A belief in daemons or evil spirits led on naturally to a need for exorcists ; exorcism , it is reasonable to assume , became one of the priestly functions . |
| 4 | His partners , brought to the sticking point , agreed , somewhat reproachfully , and passed on firmly to the question of who was going to take over which of Angela 's clients . |
| 5 | ‘ What did he say ? ’ said Masklin , hanging on tightly to the sweater . |
| 6 | The cart moved on downhill to the toll-gate . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , hold on tightly to the pole . ’ |
| 8 | This leads on logically to an interest in fast-scoring feats — Jessop was a natural choice for his first biography The Croucher ( 1974 ) . |
| 9 | She shrugged and walked on quietly to the house . |
| 10 | Moving on then to the capital programme erm which is summarized in table two on page six and er go into that in detail in the two . |
| 11 | Well I think you 're moving on now to a sphere where perhaps C I D could you know help you on that . |
| 12 | Chair , if I could move on then to the budget proper , and I apologize for the numbering . |
| 13 | The Inspector who reported on that Litchfield city local plan said , go away , leave your Litchfield city plan and look at the options beyond the greenbelt , including erm the possibility of a new village , and I think that 's that 's the point here , instead of rolling back the greenbelt you should be looking beyond , you know , what is the general extent of the greenbelt to see what options are available , just coming on then to the size point , again that Mr Grantham raised , I have through erm experience both in the Cambridge situation which I referred to extensively erm in my statement , and in East Staffordshire where we are promoting a plan , er a site for a new village which is included in the deposited plan , we 've looked in both the Cambridge and the er East Staffordshire situation , bo at service provision , both from speaking to the providers of those services and whether or not they need a specific facility in the settlement , and from the developers point of view , that if you 've got a pot of money what can you afford to erm provide within a settlement of that size , and the conclusions we are rai er sort of reaching are a du a settlement of the order of twelve fifty dwellings can support your primary school , community centre , erm a range of shops , and so on and so forth , so what I 'm saying in my submission that the an appropriate size is in the thousand fifteen hundred mark , is that were you can get a reasonable co balance of community facilities and provide the relevant infrastructure in terms of services . |
| 14 | John expressed a desire for milk and one man went on ahead to the surface and asked one of John 's neighbours to get out of bed and milk her cow . |
| 15 | Round and round she went , just scared enough to hold on tight to the pole , the wind blowing back her spread of straight golden hair . |
| 16 | It moves on afterwards to a variety of holiday destinations throughout Britain and Europe . |
| 17 | And it did n't worry him when he got into the sensitive parts with his drill ; my strangled cries were of no avail and he carried on remorselessly to the end : I had the impression that Hector thought it was cissy to feel pain , or maybe he was of the opinion that suffering was good for the soul . |
| 18 | Well I want to move on now to a caller . |
| 19 | Shelley held on tight to the seatbelt , and looked sideways at Miguel . |