Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | I walked on past a dead cow and the arrow markers for the airstrip . |
| 4 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 5 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 6 | Sandra Peden , her that works in the Co-operative she 's a Gold Medallist in Elocution you know , well wait till I tell you she came on in a long Laura Ashley nightdress carrying a Wee Willie Winkie candlestick with wee pink bedsocks and a matching pompom hat and did Holy Willie 's Prayer . |
| 7 | Instead you manipulate the plots of the others to your own ends , playing one off against the others , letting them waste their energies in fruitless rivalries while you look on from a safe distance , waiting patiently for the moment to make your move , the day when I drop dead and you can come home and claim your own . |
| 8 | This contact may be by post , by telephone or by personal meetings ; the choice will depend very much on how important you are to a magazine and the magazine to you and thus how often you are likely to be working with this particular publication , how physically near you are to each other and indeed how well you get on at a social level . |
| 9 | Reluctantly she stepped on to a moving walkway that carried her through a mishmash of exotic atmospheres . |
| 10 | Wearing a check two-piece suit and sporting a poppy on her lapel , the duchess smiled broadly as she stepped on to a red carpet . |
| 11 | Then she flew on to a high window-sill and I had to ask the headmaster to bring me a ladder so that I could bring her down . |
| 12 | But you went on to a nameless belt of chairs and it took you it was Highways and Horizons they called it . |
| 13 | Janet Walters , an Oxford history graduate who had previously served as a full-time tutor in Northamptonshire in 1943–45 , arrived in August 1952 but resigned two years later : she went on to a successful career in adult education , eventually retiring as principal of Hillcroft College , Surbiton , in 1982 . |
| 14 | ‘ It is , actually , ’ she went on in a normal voice . |
| 15 | ‘ You can tell your father , ’ she went on in a low voice , ‘ there 's plenty in the valley willing to help . |
| 16 | ‘ I did mean what I said last night , ’ she went on in a strangled whisper . |
| 17 | Having walked through the wood , she emerged on to a small , high plateau , from which a wide sweep of the countryside below was visible . |
| 18 | We simply glued the broken ear back in place and she carried on to a successful conclusion . |
| 19 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 20 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 21 | Life is very crude , and bonnie Princes Street a dream , but we soldier on with a good grace . |
| 22 | Chairman I I wonder whether I could just make a sort of general statement from the department 's view before we go on to a particular issue if I may . |
| 23 | We can consider reasonably clear cut examples of the use of local landmarks and of home stimuli , but when we come on to a possible map sense we shall move into one of the more unsettled areas of the science . |
| 24 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 25 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 26 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 27 | They went on over a long period and affected many children who had been entrusted to the defendants for care and help . |
| 28 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
| 29 | To this day they live on as a nomadic people wandering in the wildernesses of northern Ulthuan and ranging across Cothique , Tiranoc and Chrace in small , fierce bands . |
| 30 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |