Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 2 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
| 3 | But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century . |
| 4 | And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis . |
| 5 | The Labour Party has moved on to the social democratic ground , it may even choose to call itself a social democratic party — in any case , it should complete the process with a constitution to suit . |
| 6 | ‘ FROM OUT of the blue , 21-year-old Elvis Presley has rocketed on to the popular music scene with all the scorching fury of a meteor , ’ reckon the NME on May 11 , 1956 . |
| 7 | I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years . |
| 8 | A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months . |
| 9 | An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time . |
| 10 | The trouble is that so are a lot of other people , and classy people at that , which is why old Joe ‘ I'm-a-dealer-in-architectural-antiques ’ Soap has climbed on to the pricey bandwagon . |
| 11 | Has a lot to prove this term , after a poor season Has to move on from the promising youngster stage . |
| 12 | International discussion of service of process is influenced — and often confused — by the differing assumptions of the participants , each of whom tends to project on to the international plane the familiar features of his own national system . |
| 13 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 14 | Seeing in black life nothing more than an answer to racism means moving on to the ideological circuit which makes us visible in two complementary roles — the problem and the victim . |
| 15 | Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ? |
| 16 | As the recession 's gone on through the eighties and enters the nineties , we can see that the number of single households , households with just one person , is increasing rapidly . |
| 17 | Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial . |
| 18 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 19 | It 's put on by the Rotary Club of Alfreton . |