Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You need n't feel responsible for me from now on in the slightest . ’
2 No other African became a bishop until well on into the twentieth century ! "
3 Jadeite , highly prized in modern China , did not appear there until well on in the eighteenth century .
4 But it was another slender figure , a woman , shimmying up on to the port wing , from there on to the scorching hull , running along the curve in great , light strides and flinging her arm out in front of her , pointing with her index and little fingers at the mob pulling down the man .
5 But er we used to bring these tubs then down from there on to the main road where the rope , the haulage rope travelled you see ?
6 It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house .
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