Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got on with some work of my own and he went back to his . |
| 2 | There was always this idea that people lived on in some form after death , looking after you . |
| 3 | She might have stumbled on to some big-time drug smugglers for example . ’ |
| 4 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 5 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 6 | Above them on a rocky promontory of convenient geology , Jesus kneels in prayer , an exercise that still goes on in some places , though with less agony and less certainty of address . ’ |
| 7 | Photojournalism and the birth of photography are briefly touched on , Context and Ambiguity expanded on in some depth , ethics briefly considered and a fair selection of illustrations from the exhibition are included , including Robert Capa 's The Last Man to die , Leipzig , Germany and Chris Steele-Perkins Famine in Karamoja Province , Uganda , images that are almost commonplace today . |
| 8 | Well I think the consideration and the research has got to go on for some time . |
| 9 | Well , they 're in detailed discussions , and negotiations are likely to go on for some hours . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh , no , Ross — this is a terrible mistake ! ’ she cried in a desperate attempt to cling on to some form of sanity , wriggling violently to try and escape his embrace as he almost ran up the steps and entered the cottage . |
| 11 | But one matter the Society resisted pronouncing on for some time was the question of its own criteria for membership . |
| 12 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 13 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 14 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 15 | It was also carried on in some few villages : fulling mills operated at East Hendred , near Wantage , Brimpton and Colthorp , as well as one at Bagnor owned by no less than Jack of Newbury himself . |
| 16 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 17 | Hold on to some part of your legs which you can reach without straining . |
| 18 | No arguing with that , thought Cadfael , looking on with some anxiety from his retired place . |
| 19 | But the Westland affair lingered on for some time to come . |
| 20 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 21 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 22 | That meant no dancing , just hordes of people staying long enough to see and be seen , then passing on to some other entertainment . |
| 23 | Melody 's moved on with some of my men , but she said she saw Boz again a day or two ago . |
| 24 | But she and John had moved on to some other vantage point . |
| 25 | The hole stays the same size as the dog grows , but few of them disappear altogether and are usually operated on at some stage . |
| 26 | The second concern is that evaluation is largely a wasted exercise unless it leads on to some action . |
| 27 | This leads on to some general considerations about decision-making in a bureaucracy . |
| 28 | In the latter , emphasis was placed on practical skills such as technical drawing and woodwork , with some pupils going on to some form of technical college but with most leaving at 15 years of age and few if any achieving university entrance . |
| 29 | Talks have been going on for some time on a range of scientific matters including fusion , nuclear safety and the environment . |
| 30 | The process has been going on for some time . |