Example sentences of "she [vb past] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 2 | ‘ Next question , ’ she moved on with wan humour . |
| 3 | But I , I liked the the first outfit she came on with that sash wrapped round her |
| 4 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 5 | Yeah , but she hung on like blue death ! |
| 6 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 7 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 8 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 9 | She went on to 16th place , the winner being Josefa Idem of Italy . |
| 10 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 11 | She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack . |
| 12 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 13 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 14 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 15 | She held on to twenty years of him . |
| 16 | Teeth clenched , she held on like grim death , determined not to embarrass Penry Vaughan with a fit of hysterics just because she was in a boat again . |
| 17 | He was in any case eclipsed — they all were — by the presence of Dinah herself , strong and compelling as when she swept on to any stage . |
| 18 | She travelled on to western Georgia and reached the Black Sea , but there her journeys ended as she suffered an infection from the bite of a tick which resulted in her death in Kutaisi , the west Georgian capital , 22 September 1840 . |