Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 2 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 3 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 4 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 5 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 6 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 7 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 8 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 9 | She alighted after him , and she crossed the footbridge too , but delayed stepping on to the platform until the train for Waterloo came in . |
| 10 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 11 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 12 | Also , I had sobered up by then and caused some complications by trying to stop the cheque — until my father came squealing on to the line . |
| 13 | Once I 'd got on to the continent I 'd walk there if I had to . |
| 14 | He came rushing on to the platform just as a train bound for Debden came in . |
| 15 | ‘ They came running on with no boarding passes , and only had hand baggage which they carried themselves . |
| 16 | I 'd crumpled on to the door mat and I remember a fearful pain , but whether it was my head or my ankle , I do n't really know . |
| 17 | Once she 'd stepped on to the platform , there was nothing to do but turn , step , step , turn and nowhere to look but straight ahead . |
| 18 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 19 | He repeated the information he 'd passed on to the Abigails and to Mr Plant : that George Joseph Smith had bought fish for the late Miss Munday , and eggs for Mrs Burnham and Miss Lofty . |
| 20 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 21 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 22 | The group of horsemen , wide-scattered , not in any formation , appeared silhouetted on the ridge and came streaming on towards the ford . |
| 23 | When they reached Scarborough Pat , 58 , a steelworker from Middlesbrough , was taken to the town 's hospital where nurses bandaged his bruised and swollen fingers and he vowed to carry on with the journey . |
| 24 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 26 | Ben , his assistant Lucy , John Gould and I sat in amazement as Phyl , the rosy , cosy raven-haired lady who was to be my dresser , mounted an enormous step-ladder and began pinning on to the backcloth , yard after yard after metre after metre of off-white gauze curtaining . |
| 27 | Leaden clouds had rolled in with the setting sun and as they neared Carvoeiro fat drops of rain began to splash on to the windscreen . |
| 28 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 29 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 30 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |