Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to take a difficult route back to the line almost immediately , or go on to the next farm and follow a track there . |
| 2 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 3 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 4 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 5 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 6 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 7 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 8 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 9 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 10 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 11 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 12 | If we 're having a training session and they feel something 's not going right , I want them to say so , to get it sorted out and get on to the next thing . |
| 13 | He muttered something , turned his back on me , and strode on to the tenth tee . |
| 14 | Also , I learned to appreciate that as a critic you say what you have to say and go on to the next thing in LA you never go on to the next thing . ’ |
| 15 | Better to look at the written key word , get your practice partner to repeat the descriptive sentences ( which will then be easy ) and go on to the next on the list . |
| 16 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 17 | It would have been customary to allow the animal its own head , and to hold on to the last truck , or hitch a lift by hanging onto the end . |
| 18 | If you are one of these people , I suggest that you stop reading this and move on to the next chapter . |
| 19 | As a result , you keep wishing they 'd wind up this particular gag and move on to the next item , a frustration which makes the film seem drawn out and sluggish . |
| 20 | Only when that topic is fully discussed can you sit back and think " what next ? " and move on to the next paragraph . |
| 21 | We eat , we enjoy it or not as the case may be , and move on to the next thing . |
| 22 | In the examination itself , divide up the time on the basis of how the marks are likely to be distributed ; if you run out of time for your first answer , quickly sketch a conclusion and move on to the next question , so that you have provided at least a general indication of work in all the questions . |
| 23 | There , it seemed , commentary was powerless and pointless ; he would simply read the text aloud and move on to the next poem . |
| 24 | Lear is evidently pleased with what Goneril has said , since he awards her a rich part of England , and moves on to the second movement , where again two daughters speak . |
| 25 | Tom turns his head in embarrassment and has it explained to him that his regular caddie has gone back to Orville Moody , and I 'm his new one , so he says , ‘ OK ’ , and walks on to the first tee . |
| 26 | I smiled understanding and held on to the last wedge of the broken window , catching glimpses of the brown Yucay River snaking its way between the terraced hills . |
| 27 | If you do not reply , the PP does not repeat but goes on to the next question . |
| 28 | On no account should it be regarded as something through which the traveller passes quickly while hurrying on to the next destination . |