Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] on [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 2 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 3 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 4 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 5 | HTV 's advertising revenue rose 11.8 per cent to £101.8m , and the group managed to hold on to a creditable market share of 6.4 per cent as advertising has been sucked to South-east England . |
| 6 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 7 | Injuries have hit the club , and coach Billy Lomax had to come on as a substitute midway through the second half . |
| 8 | After an appallingly rough five-day voyage the self-styled monarch was unable to land , as intended , at Montrose in Angus , because of the presence of a suspicious-looking vessel , and had to sail on for a further 60 miserable miles [ 96 km ] to Peterhead , beyond Aberdeen . |