Example sentences of "and [verb] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet . |
| 2 | Great efforts would be needed to restore the party to its strong position of 1914 and to carry on with the fundamental changes that had been under way then , but the war years had done no lasting damage . |
| 3 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And just as human wisdom is only perceived and passed on by the human spirit inside us , so it is with the truth of God . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 7 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 8 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 9 | Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject . |
| 10 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 11 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 12 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 13 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 14 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 15 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 16 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 17 | The story of some of these presses is a fascinating one to follow , as the printers surreptitiously pull off their pamphlets and broadsides in some kitchen or remote country house , load up and press on to the next location , with an eye ever over their shoulder for the pursuers . |
| 18 | Minutes later we are heading for a small island group north of Vengsøya , to round that and head on for the next . |
| 19 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 20 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
| 21 | Jerry Foley , 29 , jumped at least seven red lights and veered on to the wrong side of the road before staggering out of the car when it ran out of petrol , Wood Green crown court heard . |
| 22 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 23 | The crosser is required to tight-rope walk on the single strand below and hold on to the two other lines for balance . |
| 24 | He said nothing and she went , with smooth , unflustered movements , to the couch and dropped on to the yielding cushions and prayed for Oliver to come and quickly . |
| 25 | It was also during this period that his single-engined fighter designs began appearing , starting with the Yak–1 and leading on to the classic Yak–3 — later developed into the familiar Yak–11 trainer . |
| 26 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 27 | While the audience in the cinema now accepts a slackness of narrative logic ( though not of narrative drive ) that would have been rare and frowned on in the 1940s , it still expects — even in a send-up — more than token adherence to the rules of the genre or of the individual film type itself : horror , sci-fi , the Spielberg ‘ Indiana Jones ’ series , the Lucas Star Wars series , the Broccoli ‘ James Bond ’ series etc . |
| 28 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 29 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 30 | Most people 's income is taxed directly by their employers and handed on to the Inland Revenue , an arm of central government , under a system called Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) . |