Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she could n't forget , as the lights twinkled on around the entire hillside , that this man owned them all , every last apartment , every cypress , every swimming-pool and tennis court . |
| 2 | There was a stool nearby , and , climbing on this , Seddon got on to the firm edge of the sink where it met the draining board and reached up to the hatch . |
| 3 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 4 | ‘ We were sent upstairs to address envelopes as ‘ the girls ’ ‘ , she recalls , ‘ while Clive got on with the serious business of deciding about the paper . |
| 5 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 6 | Even a piece of her mind could cost you dearly if you got on on the wrong side of her . |
| 7 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 8 | The hospitality extended to a good meal , and before leaving we were given the facilities of a nearby chateau , where the jeep driver and I had the luxury of a hot bath , laid on by the local Mayor . |
| 9 | Herds of giraffe and waterbuck raced across the swamps in our shadow as we swooped on to the sandy airstrip . |
| 10 | Crossroads lived on under the Central banner , but there were many more changes in store and some viewers did n't like take to those either . |
| 11 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 12 | He turned his back to her and walked off into the open-plan living-room , with its huge glass patio doors that led on to the front garden . |
| 13 | Which led on to the obvious conclusion . ’ |
| 14 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 15 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 16 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 17 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There is Israeli ‘ absentee ’ legislation and there are land expropriation laws passed on from the British mandate . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Once inside , she sank on to the quilted bench opposite the marble vanity and stared at her reflection . |
| 24 | Then with a sigh she sank on to the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , feeling the soft springs of the mattress bounce beneath her weight . |
| 25 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | She slowly forced the wheel to the left and the car moved on to the hard shoulder and stopped . |
| 30 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |