Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see why nuns wear white when they take the veil , but when you think of the way everyone goes on at the prospect of the wedding night innocence is the last thing on anyone 's mind . ’ |
| 2 | The House of Commons , particularly , but also the House of Lords , is often thought of as a club and the exchange of views and striking of bargains which goes on outside the chamber can be and frequently is of much greater significance than the public posturing which goes on within it . |
| 3 | Few of the million or so visitors who take advantage of the Garden as a public amenity each year are aware of the scientific heritage behind the Garden , or indeed of the high level of scientific work which goes on behind the scenes today . |
| 4 | All these are not merely parts of our descriptive model ; we assume that they correspond very directly to aspects of the activity which goes on in the mind of speakers ; by contrast the relation of instantiation which links particular items of the English vocabulary and the elements E and P is metalinguistic , since in any particular use of a linguistic structure the word-meanings which are present , supported of course by the word-forms which are the overt carriers of the meanings , are the Es and the Ps , rather than being related to them . |
| 5 | There are many who are surprised to discover that the words you see before you have been brought to you with little electronic influence beyond that which goes on within the brains of the writer and reader . |
| 6 | At the beginning we are confronted by a huge battle which leads on to the deaths of loyal knights . |
| 7 | People might say that a woman is depriving a baby of the chance of life which leads on to the argument of ‘ when is a foetus human ? ’ etc … |
| 8 | A woman living in Melsonby Crescent , which backs on to the plant , told Darlington council 's planning applications committee she would no longer put up with the ‘ disgraceful conditions ’ . |
| 9 | You should certainly cross the border ( remember the passports ) for a taste of the Vorarlberg , and particularly of Bregenz , squeezed into that tiny corner of Austria which intrudes on to the Bodensee between Switzerland and Germany . |
| 10 | This morning , the end of the series is marked with the doxology from Ephesians 3 , verses 20 and 21 , which follows on from the prayer of Paul that we have just heard . |
| 11 | Of more use us the rounded front handle , which twists on to the neck of the body , just aft of the chuck , and serves to hold the depth stop . |
| 12 | Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have devised a Parent 's Game which continues on from the Child 's Game described in the previous chapter . |
| 13 | The akroteria included mounted Amazons , a theme which carries on from the metopes . |
| 14 | The lesson of the Square One Principle is this : the person who has the courage to go back when necessary is the one who goes on in the end . |
| 15 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 16 | The person who gets on with the job instead of wasting time in chatter may show up the less zealous and cause the chatterers to feel vaguely guilty , which of course they wo n't like . |
| 17 | ‘ She waits on in the Twa Dogs now , ’ she said , ‘ a pothouse on the road out to Ireby . ’ |
| 18 | At the start a group of actors and friends are preparing a surprise party for the director , Michael Manx ( Stephen Moore ) , but it is his older brother Alfred , played by Finney , who strides on to the set first . |
| 19 | Penguin starts life as a hideously deformed tot who bursts on to the scene years later as a fat , big-beaked freak determined to rule Gotham City and do away with Batman ( Michael Keaton ) . |
| 20 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 21 | It seems he is indulging in some extra physio with the little darling who runs on with the sponge for Frampton . |
| 22 | Does anyone have any objections if she carries on till the end of the year ? |
| 23 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 24 | Have at last worked out how it fits on to the trolley . |
| 25 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 26 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 27 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 28 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 29 | He hangs on to the hope that he will work with Almodóvar again , but Hollywood and a coterie of internationally-acclaimed directors are now pounding on the door . |
| 30 | ‘ Thus although , from a technical point of view , the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard , it hangs on in the factory as a tradition handed down from manufacture , and is then systematically reproduced and fixed in a more hideous form by capital as a means of exploiting labour power . |