Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This paper presents results for eighteen clients accepted on to the Special Development Team caseload , who were living in NHS mental handicap hospitals at the time of referral , eleven of whom had moved to staffed houses in the community . |
| 2 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 3 | On the London stage , the great roles will be plucked like plums , in the Welsh valleys his fame will swell like the fortissimo of a chapel organ and his acts of generosity , recklessness , coarseness and excellent manners tossed on to the fiery legend like dry logs . |
| 4 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 5 | You 'll be jostled , pushed , elbowed and have your feet stamped on by the seething hordes that are just going about their daily business in the city . |
| 6 | The creature is often seen on the Idwal Slabs in North Wales and Stanage and Laddow Rocks in the South Pennines but has of recent years migrated on to the Craven limestone . |
| 7 | The scene was illuminated by large floodlamps bolted on to the striated walls of the huge cavern which enclosed the whole place . |
| 8 | It was night , and as the wind gusted down the iron chimney pipe , a shower of metal flakes spattered on to the wooden floor . |
| 9 | These procedures carried on until the 1939–45 war . |
| 10 | ‘ Debt ’ , with its overtones of fault and defaulting , embarrassment and mismanagement , gradually changed into the more significant ‘ overindebtedness ’ — though , of course , newspaper subs hung on to the monosyllabic short word which fitted more easily into headlines and made for more racy reading in the copy . |
| 11 | He stared down at his body , and large tears splashed on to the brilliant tattoos of light . |
| 12 | [ 2 ] The outcome was compared in babies operated on with the traditional light general anaesthesia and in those who received analgesics before , during and after the operation . |
| 13 | The Founders moved on to the next question . |
| 14 | Why were the children allowed on to the open sea ? |
| 15 | Er , we have approximately sixty boys signed on for the three teams , all of whom come from the Ottery area . |
| 16 | By mid and late Devonian times , the new mountains of Europe had been worn down and shallow shelf seas spread on to the continental margins . |
| 17 | An inexpensive sweet Muscat which is from the Mediterranean coast of Spain , boasting sultana and honey notes tagged on to the familiar medley of citrus fruits . |
| 18 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |