Example sentences of "[vb past] on [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1	In an almost soundless flurry of activity , the cellar door was opened and the light switched on to reveal the ramped steps .
2	He kept on remembering the good bits , that was the trouble .
3	In trying to go home he simply pressed the wrong buttons — and kept on pressing the wrong buttons , taking his human passengers backwards and forwards , and in and out of time and space .
4	Peter Ueberroth , son of a travelling aluminium salesman , worked his way through college , single-handedly built a $300 million business , went on to organize the 1984 Olympics , became Time magazine 's Man of the Year and the commissioner of baseball .
5	The Palestinian gunmen crouching behind the sand embankment across Boulevard Ariss went on watching the Syrian tanks , ignoring the sound .
6	Instead , they went on watching the Syrian tanks manoeuvring down the road half a mile away , in what had the previous day been the Christian front line .
7	He went on to commend the interpretive skills of Richard Benson , who made the halftone negatives and worked closely with the craftsmen at Meriden Gravure in Meriden , Connecticut , who printed the plates in tritone ( which involves making three negatives — for light , dark and middle tones — for each print , and two passes through the press ) .
8	After defeating Pam at the 19th to win the Scottish , she went on to bag the Australian Girls ' title and the British Stroke-Play Championship .
9	He went on to discuss the finer points of his work : Americans take the deepest divots , he said , the Japanese no divots at all .
10	Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated .
11	He won the NIBA singles championship , and went on to become the first Parks player to lift the coveted Irish title since Balmoral 's Alan McMullan in 1987 .

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