Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nigel still hung on to the wedding ring . |
| 2 | But Maloney also revealed that Lewis v Bowe almost went on outside the ring this week . |
| 3 | ‘ The Renegades ’ from Dundalk certainly held on to the very end . |
| 4 | Leading figures in the RCM like the Marchioness of Reading , who had been born into a Jewish family , converted to Christianity and had now converted back to Judaism ; Elaine Blond , Sigmund Gestetner and Lola Hahn-Warburg quickly caught on to the message that the best chance of currying public favour was to play down the religious factor . |
| 5 | We can assure the world that the spirit of wartime Liverpool still lives on in the young taxi drivers , news vendors , waiters , waitresses and the police . |
| 6 | Mr Hamilton-Renwick soon moved on to the Dobermann 's smaller relative , the Miniature Pinscher . |
| 7 | In 1988 he crushed a vain attempt to challenge his leadership by the veteran Tony Benn , with an 8 to 1 majority , while Roy Hattersley comfortably held on to the deputy leadership . |
| 8 | Maconie then goes on about the ‘ Fred EP ’ and how the proceeds go to THT . |
| 9 | Lewis suddenly wandered on to the stage and started playing , hotly pursued by the band , who had not been tipped off . |
| 10 | Lewis meanwhile moved on to the Daily Mail , where till 1930 he wrote a column called ‘ At the Sign of the Blue Moon ’ . |
| 11 | He turned and charged quickly off into the forest to rescue his friend , only to find a German splayed out on the ground and Tommy still running on up the hill . |
| 12 | Jones now sailed on through the North Sea , towards England , his progress marked by a trail of prizes which were sent back to France , his own ships , as he later wrote to Louis XVI , being ‘ weakened and embarrassed with prisoners ’ , whom he still hoped to exchange for Americans . |
| 13 | It was above all his Dickensian capacity to take in social detail as part of a social sense that need not be political that Griffith really passed on to the American motion-picture industry . |
| 14 | On Sunday they went up to the common , a performance ; lifting the pram , Emma still insisted on for the sake of Ruth 's spine , into and off the tube , the escalators . |
| 15 | I shook my head and Reid cheerfully walked on to the veranda , munching his ‘ breakfast ’ — his day 's work apparently done . |
| 16 | Captain Swan was the trainer on that occasion and Charlie then moved on to the Kevin Prendergast yard where he had to give up Flat racing because of a sharp rise in his weight following an accident . |