Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 32 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 33 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 34 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 35 | Each Tuesday he meets his unelected Cabinet , the Executive Council , and they approve — ‘ rubber stamp ’ is how critics describe it — legislation passed on by the Civil Service . |
| 36 | What I do not possess , however , is any suitable travelling clothes — that is to say , clothes in which I might be seen driving the car — unless I were to don the suit passed on by the young Lord Chalmers during the war , which despite being clearly too small for me , might be considered ideal in terms of tone . |
| 37 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 38 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 39 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 40 | Finally , in the week that the flame of altruism flickered on as the saintly Mother Teresa and her divine holiness the Princess of Wales clasped hands in a gesture of tender solidarity that touched the souls of millions , it was revealed that : |
| 41 | Once inside , she sank on to the quilted bench opposite the marble vanity and stared at her reflection . |
| 42 | Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight . |
| 43 | The end of power-sharing had left a vacuum , which the constitutional convention had failed to fill , and Ulster staggered on with a vicious IRA campaign , tit-for-tat assassinations , unconvincing direct rule , and no obvious sense of direction . |
| 44 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 45 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 46 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 47 | Hendrie moved on to a perfect Payton pass , went round goalkeeper Keith Welsh with ease , and shot into the empty net . |
| 48 | A minute later Payton moved on to a sloppy Jobling pass and shot into the side netting as fans jumped to their feet in anticipation of a goal . |
| 49 | The man who entered a monastery did so , in principle , for life ; there were of course apostates ; there were also a number who moved on to a stricter way of life ; and a few who were promoted to abbeys elsewhere , or to bishoprics , or even to the papacy . |
| 50 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
| 51 | There was no room with Jimmy and Sean , and Marcus and Pete moved on to a different table . |
| 52 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 53 | We moved on to the shallow stage , where Fielding had installed a raft of video equipment ( with two pistol-grip cameras ) , a stereo , a coffee-table space game , a fishtank , two sofas facing two low steel desks , and a fat little fridge . |
| 54 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 55 | We then moved on to the spiralling property prices in Oxford , the purchase price of the Parsons ' house compared to its current estimated value , the solicitor 's recent attic conversion , and so on and so forth . |
| 56 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 57 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 58 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 59 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 60 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |