Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century .
2 And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis .
3 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 .
4 ‘ 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 .
5 I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years .
6 A great deal of work has gone on over the past few months .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Coffee cup 's lifted on in the wrong place can it ?
10 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 .
11 Irrespective of wh what 's gone on over the whole period of the trial .
12 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 .
13 It 's put on by the Rotary Club of Alfreton .
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