Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 2 | ‘ She waits on in the Twa Dogs now , ’ she said , ‘ a pothouse on the road out to Ireby . ’ |
| 3 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 4 | Does anyone have any objections if she carries on till the end of the year ? |
| 5 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 6 | Have at last worked out how it fits on to the trolley . |
| 7 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 8 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 9 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 10 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 11 | He hangs on to the hope that he will work with Almodóvar again , but Hollywood and a coterie of internationally-acclaimed directors are now pounding on the door . |
| 12 | ‘ Thus although , from a technical point of view , the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard , it hangs on in the factory as a tradition handed down from manufacture , and is then systematically reproduced and fixed in a more hideous form by capital as a means of exploiting labour power . |
| 13 | First , it leads on from the cross of Jesus to his resurrection , from condemnation to vindication , from destruction to restoration . |
| 14 | He stays on into the dawn — how quiet |
| 15 | ‘ Clearly , once it gets on to the motorway it can get anywhere . |
| 16 | Halvard — Perhaps you could let us know how he gets on in the tour games . |
| 17 | The nozzle of the big cleaner appears , it keeps coming until it falls on to the furniture and other junk piled against the wall . |
| 18 | Subtitled ‘ The Road to Maus ’ it follows on from the exhibition held by MoMA last spring of Spiegelman 's drawings for his two published volumes on the Holocaust , told in comic strip form with mice , cats and pigs as the protagonists ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , p.15 ) . |
| 19 | The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . |
| 20 | This week he 's at Queens Club with Sky for the Stella Artois tournament , then he moves on to the Manchester Open on June 14 . |
| 21 | If you 're knitting with the mylar sheet , it moves on at the start of the second row and is scanned at the end of the second row . |
| 22 | He steps on to the bathroom scales . |
| 23 | It continues on through the pages of Scripture to the very last words of the book of Revelation . |
| 24 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |
| 25 | It should be remembered that a company can only be the firm 's appointed representative if the firm accepts responsibility for the whole of the investment business it carries on on the firm 's behalf . |
| 26 | No , it 's for , it carries on till the end of semester one . |
| 27 | It 's not often it comes on during the day , but now and again |