Example sentences of "on [prep] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm Angela 's on about nipping from the army across into West Berk . |
| 2 | She should also be at school , and Noreen threatened to send her back to Uncle Michael who would take her to school every day , if she did n't stop going on about coming to the theatre . |
| 3 | The case came on for hearing at the beginning of April 1992 . |
| 4 | London has got to stop being so dependent on Dublin and get on with dealing with the problems of Northern Ireland — only five per cent of which are constitutional . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously he was the kind of man who could expunge an unsatisfactory incident from his memory as if it had never happened , and get on with living in the present . |
| 6 | ‘ Somewhere , ’ he replied and switched the kettle on before rummaging through the drawers . |
| 7 | The notion that the surface thrusts might flatten at depth was voiced long ago ( Hayes 1891 ) , and received support from Rich ( 1934 ) , Rodgers ( 1949 ) who introduced the term ‘ thin-skinned ’ — and others , and also as time went on from drilling in the Valley and Ridge province , where roughly 1000 mostly shallow wells have been drilled . |
| 8 | You 've got ta get on without looking at the book , Grant . |
| 9 | I booked the conference not realising it was gon na be the control room by this time , and then this morning I turned up to find out we ca n't put the lights on without getting behind the bar , and we ca n't get behind the bar so that 's why this er |
| 10 | We can see what went on by looking at the volumes of the annual Report of the Association ; for instance that of 1855 , containing the proceedings of the meeting at Liverpool in September 1854 . |
| 11 | But the Germans really had little to boast about ; they too had made a major blunder early on by concentrating on the construction of Zeppelins , and their maintenance of technical superiority during most of the war was almost entirely thanks to the brilliance of a twenty-five-year-old Dutchman , Tony Fokker . |
| 12 | Player Manager , Glenn Hoddle , pushed his men on by joining in the attack . |