Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some financial planners have worked out another loophole , telling their clients to hang on to the part of their income paid in company shares , because taxes on capital gains are unlikely to rise under President Clinton and may even fall . |
| 2 | GRAHAM Gooch will have plenty of shoulders to lean on during the tour of India . |
| 3 | It 's okay for Australians to bang on about the risks they get a summer . |
| 4 | ‘ He always carried a spare pair of socks and a pair of more comfortable slippers to put on in the office . ’ |
| 5 | It was as though they were marching up great soaring bridges to get on to the screen , where they would enter into the films we had come to see . |
| 6 | Teachers have constantly to buttonhole each other as they pass in the staffroom and tack extra things to do on to the bottom of each other 's already overlong agendas . |
| 7 | You asked if it would be possible for certain material witnesses to stay on at the Lodge for an extra night while you continue your investigations on the spot . |
| 8 | The passion of his kisses on her throat were leaving her weak and she had to will her fingers to hold on to the bodice . |
| 9 | ‘ I would be the first person to tell my players to get on with the game because when you do n't do that , you are only upsetting your rhythm . |
| 10 | It 's almost as if some teachers hold the belief that the best parents are those that are docile and ignorant about the school , leaving the professionals to get on with the job . |
| 11 | Boys should go to school because they need the skills to get on in the world , because they will spend their lives moving between household and family and the institutions of state and nation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Amid mounting chaos , Iliescu issued a radio appeal to factory workers and others to come on to the streets to defend the revolution . |
| 14 | Middlesbrough is urging its residents to jump on to the recycling bandwagon . |
| 15 | The result is an easy panel of lace with no cams to put on to the needlebed or dials to be moved ( see sample 2 ) . |
| 16 | He allowed his papers to drop on to the cabin floor , and his eyes lit up with interest . |
| 17 | The crowds on the platform shrieked at them and banged on the glass , then ran to the end of the carriages to climb on to the roof . |
| 18 | Mr Saville added : ‘ If they slap a CPO on the site , then it will be up to the councils to get on with the job of reclamation . |
| 19 | That is why we have ensured , through our know-how funds and all the other means at our disposal , that we are providing economic advice and sound advice for training members of the former republics to get on with the job of economic reform . |
| 20 | We have planned the desserts to follow on from the evening meal , as after the main meal we often like to have something sweet to eat . |