Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] on [prep] [art] [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 | Polio , apparently passed on from a human epidemic in the region , had already reduced their numbers . |
4 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
5 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
6 | But when I got there , he 'd already moved on to the Middle East . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | Often , nowadays , he did n't have to do it ; relatives might live in different parts of the country , and usually they were best called on by a uniformed man . |
10 | The voice-parts of the opening ‘ Domine ad adjuvandum ’ are largely composed on to a transposed version of the preludial ‘ toccata ’ a true Shakespearian ‘ tucket ’ of Orfeo . |
11 | This then results in a functional domain that can be directly mapped on to the relevant geometric domain . |
12 | Gum tabs ( usually stuck on with a price-marking gun ) |
13 | Since they are both high-class batsmen this comes as quite a surprise , but looking through the records one sees that one of them has failed fairly often ; their strength is that when that has happened the other has usually gone on to a big score , thereby relieving the pressure on the middle order . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Using a script command , the user is automatically logged on to the appropriate host once an application is chosen . |
16 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
17 | As a proper noun standing for the state of being modern it has never really caught on as a popular word in everyday speech . |
18 | Keeping goats has really caught on in the past 10 years , as farmers look to alternative livestock to stay in business . |
19 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
20 | Infection occurs with the transfer of data and is often passed on via an infected floppy disk . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
23 | 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 ’ . |
24 | The remainder was immediately sent on to the appropriate numbered Swiss account . ’ |
25 | The car 's headlights picked out a road sign and she swung slowly left on to the narrow lane indicated . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | ‘ 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 . |
30 | Ace checked his in turn and then moved on to the other team members . |