Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His return to Eaton Park could scarcely have come at a more opportune moment considering that Gordon Hamilton , Stuart Laing , Norman Robson and Davy Nicholl have all moved on during the close season . |
| 2 | I think was er er erm Mr Thomas , and I think perhaps hinted on by the Senior Inspector as well , er what is , what is Greater York ? to do with Sylvia , erm |
| 3 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 4 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 5 | Neither of them spoke as Dalgliesh negotiated the track and finally turned on to the higher road . |
| 6 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 7 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
| 8 | But first , watching my time , I must run my hands over the edges of the blocks , must do a sun dance on top of one , pee from another , photograph the rest , and send thrilled gibberish to the lookout posts somehow built on to the sheer rock face across the valley . |
| 9 | The fact of the matter is , if we had not got on to the High Street , it would have been very difficult to justify our coming to Stockton . |
| 10 | This then results in a functional domain that can be directly mapped on to the relevant geometric domain . |
| 11 | While physicians advised sparing use of the ointment , the quacks prescribed it liberally to great effect and had usually passed on to the next town before the inevitable relapses and the not infrequent deaths — results of over-treatment — had occurred . |
| 12 | From now on applying any more brake really can spell disaster , for the normal mortal at least , because much of the weight is still thrown on to the front tyre and grip is scarce . |
| 13 | Using a script command , the user is automatically logged on to the appropriate host once an application is chosen . |
| 14 | Okay finally , a third m major er class of ion channel i which has been extensively worked on over the last few years , since the advent of patch clamping er has been second messenger gated channels , so-called second messenger gated channels . |
| 15 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 16 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
| 17 | It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry . |
| 18 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 19 | Sir John Hall ( who has n't cottoned on to the sponsored pitch idea yet ) said after assuming the chairmanship of Newcastle United ‘ If this was a business it would have failed ’ . |
| 20 | The remainder was immediately sent on to the appropriate numbered Swiss account . ’ |
| 21 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
| 22 | It is then placed on to the inked drum of a duplicating machine ( Fig. 6.9 ) and the ink is then forced through the cuts in the stencil and the copy is produced on absorbent paper . |
| 23 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 24 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 25 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 26 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |
| 27 | I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one . |
| 28 | I started with highest worked on to the lowest . |
| 29 | This hatred builds up and is then passed on to the next generation . |
| 30 | But , without doubt , the inheritors of the grammar-school tradition were steadily pressed on to the defensive in the early sixties . |