Example sentences of "they [verb] on [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
2 Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate .
3 A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) .
4 The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue .
5 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 .
6 How they went on to the next thing with such satisfaction and certainty .
7 Five or ten pounds is the price that has to be paid for them and they last six months and they move on to the next , extraordinary approach .
8 They follow on from the first set and the opening balances are already entered .
9 Returning to London eventually , and still attempting to arrange the peace for which they were empowered , they stayed on for a second year , accumulating benefices and sustained by clerical procurations meanwhile .
10 Denmead opened the scoring through Chris King and they held on until the second half when Campbell Wilson equalised for Good Sports .
11 But the task of clearing hundreds of tips was too much for them to take on at the last minute .
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