Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 2 | The chances of the Government being defeated when amendment 27 is voted on in a few weeks are now difficult to judge . |
| 3 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 4 | The work on the atomic bomb , which had been carried on in the British Isles , was transferred , in 1943 , to the United States of America , and became known as the ‘ Manhattan Project ’ . |
| 5 | Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs . |
| 6 | One sanitary inspector reported that ‘ far from being carried on in the poorer types of dwelling , outwork was taken to supplement their resources by many people whose names one would never expect to find on an outworkers list ’ . |
| 7 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 8 | The scene was illuminated by large floodlamps bolted on to the striated walls of the huge cavern which enclosed the whole place . |
| 9 | Two of those references are to research by Professor Harry Smith and his colleagues in Birmingham — work which has certainly moved on during the intervening decades . |
| 10 | ‘ Water Babies ’ featured Linda Frew and June Milligan feeding our sea-lions , and starred the new baby sea-lion ; and then moved on to the young penguins next door . |
| 11 | I asked him why he had n't got on with the other passengers . |
| 12 | It was also alleged for instance that women were too docile to make really good workers , too lacking in spirit and ambition : " Boys [ i.e. apprentices ] would claim to be shifted on to the higher branches of the trade " . |
| 13 | Simple word-processing programs often used in conjunction with microwriters are already being experimented on in a few schools . |
| 14 | Special trains were laid on in the early days , bringing musicians , singers and visitors . |
| 15 | You 'll be jostled , pushed , elbowed and have your feet stamped on by the seething hordes that are just going about their daily business in the city . |
| 16 | The mapping or transformation rules to convert the conceptual model in the form of entities , attributes and relationships , to a logical model which could be relational , hierarchical or network has already been touched on in the relevant sections . |
| 17 | we replied that our only object was to secure a Government on such lines and with such a prospect of stability that it might reasonably be expected to be capable of carrying on the war ; that in our opinion his Government , weakened by the resignations of Lloyd George and Bonar Law and by all that had gone on during the past weeks , offered no such prospect and we answered the question therefore with a perfectly definite negative . |
| 18 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |
| 19 | Back neck stitches can be run on to a few rows of waste yarn and removed leaving you with a set of shoulder stitches on each side . |
| 20 | These led on to the further issues of the relation between Christianity and other religions in general , and of the impact of the critical study of religions on Christian theology ; for that study too had made huge strides through the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | It is her responsibility to make sure any relevant information is passed on to the regional managers . |
| 22 | By mid and late Devonian times , the new mountains of Europe had been worn down and shallow shelf seas spread on to the continental margins . |
| 23 | In between excessive laughter I noticed that not only were SCUM CRAP at the back but they got completely pissed on by the Turkish Delights : - ) ) ) ) ) |
| 24 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 25 | Er , we have approximately sixty boys signed on for the three teams , all of whom come from the Ottery area . |
| 26 | ‘ What you mean is : there 's no chance of my being kept on after the three years are up . ’ |
| 27 | Er and seek good qualified er Consultants to carry out the work which could be deliberated on by the various Committees of the County Council and the District and that work has been done and I think if I saw anything Chairman from the meeting on the twenty second of December at St Albans , it was that form very first time three political parties took up the policy and they started to address particular issues er er er we believe less measures partaken . |
| 28 | The longer that socialist parties held on to the old orthodoxies , the worse they have suffered . |
| 29 | However , the Cuban leader had eagerly latched on to the dramatic statements made by Khrushchev in June-July 1960 . |
| 30 | He stared down at his body , and large tears splashed on to the brilliant tattoos of light . |