Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] on [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 2 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 3 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 4 | Joanne had carried on with normal life as best she could , even going to discos at seven months pregnant , and all-night parties . |
| 5 | I moved in to the front room where the disco had moved on to heavier metal ( New Model Army , I think — a band to watch despite their fans ) but still nobody was dancing . |
| 6 | He explained that the people who had got on to that ferry would get off in another world , and would never be seen in this one again . |
| 7 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 8 | It had gone on for some time , she could n't say how long . |
| 9 | Det Insp Jeff Crowther said : ‘ This incident could have been worse if it had gone on for any length of time . ’ |
| 10 | If speaker D had gone on at some length about ‘ cobbles ’ or rough roads in general , or if the analysis only had part of this fragment , up to C 's it was rather rough , then we might have had no evidence of a divergence in speakers ' topics within the conversation . |
| 11 | She only knew that from the moment she had stepped on to Danish soil she 'd been caught up in circumstances over which she had no control , but which appeared moment by moment to be leading her further from her original purpose . |
| 12 | Enzo Ferrari has watched him in Monaco , where in the superannuated BRM he had held on to third place for a third of the race , and then at Zandvoort . |