Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | No need to go on about the band in this preamble . |
| 2 | He did not speak in the room , allowing his clothes to fall on to the floor in the darkness , waiting for some stir or sign from Rose , but the only sound in the room was the brushing of his own clothes falling in the darkness . |
| 3 | urge people to press on with the task in hand especially when they have second thoughts |
| 4 | A full-length musical based on the biblical story of Job is about to burst on to the stage in York . |
| 5 | The way in which that topic was to explode on to the stage in the twentieth century is anticipated in the frontal attack launched on Hegel 's system by the Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard . |
| 6 | In fact , however , the Council 's composition was not random , as two kinds of evidence show : evidence for the high social class of individual members , and evidence that it was possible to get on to the Council in a given year if you wanted to . |
| 7 | Soon she was joined by a peasant woman dressed in black who told her that she was trying to get on to the hospital in Toulon for news of her son . |
| 8 | Ace also felt a twinge of sadness for the Colonel , but felt it best to get on with the job in hand . |
| 9 | Two questions — how did you manage to get on with the people in this house ? |
| 10 | Doer — urging the team to get on with the task in hand . |