Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 4 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 5 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 6 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 9 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 10 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 13 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 14 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 15 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 16 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 17 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 18 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 19 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 20 | The mother and daughter walked on towards the third door on the other side of the corridor and which led into Mrs Funnell 's room . |
| 21 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 22 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |
| 23 | The eminent Spaniard took 7 at the first hole of the Novo Sancti Petri course , of which he is the architect , and finished his first round ten shots behind Ireland 's Des Smyth who had not seen the course until he stepped on to the first tee . |
| 24 | As the play blundered on into the second half , the Airdrie strategy was clear — to ignore any pretence of building attacks from the back of the team through to the midfield . |
| 25 | I tried boxing when I was fifteen and won a bout against an opponent who was smaller than me and who normally wore thick glasses ; I went on to the second round of the competition and was beaten flat in thirty seconds by a demon midget who hammered me onto the ropes and kept hitting me until the referee stopped the bout before I suffered permanent damage . |
| 26 | Well , we really got on well together , and when the bell rang for the first round we went on to the first tee and an official is there to check out which clubs and what type of ball Butch is using . |
| 27 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |
| 28 | She went on to the next cubicle , a simple fractured thumb that even Joe Reynolds had managed to diagnose and set without too much trouble . |
| 29 | I went on to the next level to see Midnight Run . |
| 30 | Any erm deficiency at the end of the financial year was made up by a rate demand , erm so i the it was n't the same in all municipal undertakings , some of them were allowed to carry forward their balances but Ipswich , whether it was erm , er by law or er a , oh I do n't know what it be , perhaps needed that they got to be , the erm balance of the year had to be balanced at the end of the year , so you had a rate demand and of course that rate demand went on to the next year 's rates . |