Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can stay on as a sort of pensioner up at Framwell . ’ |
| 2 | Let's move on to a recap of tonight 's main stories . |
| 3 | Then I let her warble on for a while about the trials of high office , and feign interest in titbits of gossip from the upper echelons . |
| 4 | This means it could hold on with a couple of limbs whilst feeding with the others . |
| 5 | Then we could go on to a dance in our local Labour Hall ? |
| 6 | Few of Camille 's schoolmates , even had they been able to read and write , would go on to a career in the sciences , since the chemistry lab had been the first to succumb , years back , when the rules had just been relaxed and attitudes to education liberalized . |
| 7 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 8 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 9 | Rufus had always heard that nothing can go on in a village without the gossips knowing . |
| 10 | The visitor can pass on without an inkling of these rare events , and in walking through the church pass over the Teutonic bones of those ancients . |
| 11 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 12 | SECURITY lapses at Frankfurt airport that let a hijacker walk on to a jet with a gun hidden under his hat will be tracked down , the German government pledged yesterday . |
| 13 | This will lead on to a discussion of an action-based theory of mentality , the theory developed by the Swiss developmental psychologist and philosopher Jean Piaget , and then to some discussion of mental development itself . |
| 14 | Alternatively , if language problems are seen in terms of the child 's limited understanding of the rule system , this , in turn , might lead on to a programme of intervention designed to teach the child more about the rules assumed to underlie language use . |
| 15 | But generational time can gradually lead on to an appreciation of dates and time-lines . |
| 16 | He did come on as a substitute against er Oxford in midweek and Frank Clarke 's first signing injured his shoulder in this collision with Speedy . |
| 17 | I could get on with a man like that . |
| 18 | Envoy Philipp Jenninger and President Kurt Waldheim should get on like a Reichstag on fire |
| 19 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |