Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] the [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The society-s proposal to convert the church into dwellings followed on from the same sponsor 's conversion of a similar local and redundant Anglican church , St James 's , Knatchbull Road , Stockwell Park . |
| 2 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 3 | Talk ought to go on , even if murder went on at the same time ; at the sideboard Twomey turned his back before he smiled . |
| 4 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 5 | Sebastian went on in the same vein for quite some minutes . |
| 6 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 7 | Whether the world could continue to support its present ‘ uncontrolled economic growth ’ in the face of diminishing resources and pollution was a question on which all the candidates latched on to the latter issue . |