Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 I put both palms flat on the decaying undergrowth and tried to heave myself up on to my knees .
2 I tried to get him back on to the subject .
3 Carefully he began to follow it out on to the main road .
4 He did lose the lines on more than one occasion and threshed around helplessly through pauses that seemed eternal , until the A.S.M. 's quiet voice in his ear managed to get him back on to the right track .
5 ‘ We managed to get him out on to the deck and gave mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and cardiac heart massage . ’
6 By then the working class had made it back on to the front page , if only in a supporting role .
7 I can not remember just what purpose had taken me up on to the top floor of the house to where the row of guest bedrooms line the corridor .
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