Example sentences of "[verb] on into the " in BNC.

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1 The oral tradition lived on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries .
2 And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night .
3 Straight , clean-cut stone walls and a steady slabbed roof led on into the hill .
4 The blade plunged on into the heather at the side of the track .
5 Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column .
6 I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’
7 But , nevertheless , for me eternity was not now , and I had to go on into the future and in this world .
8 This includes considerable inspection work , firstly to establish what grinding needs to be done , and then to ensure that the body is fit , after they have completed their welding and grinding , to go on into the paint shop .
9 Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade .
10 Eighteen months later he moved on into the marketing and sales department , where he was responsible for liaising between Harwell and the EEC .
11 Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far .
12 It found an eddy where the outpouring of a supply conduit splashed steadily , and it swung , steadied , and then moved on into the gloom .
13 He went by the window , without a glance , and moved on into the night .
14 From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year .
15 The Sergeant was driving , and the windscreen wipers were waving crescents of slush away from the glass as they headed on into the teeth of the storm .
16 Mrs Thatcher , who returned from the United States last night , said : ‘ Everything we have done in the last 13 years will be conserved and built on into the future .
17 It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in .
18 He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond .
19 She said nothing directly in answer to this , but carried on into the house , saying , ‘ I 'll have to tell her she 's gone somewhere . ’
20 The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position .
21 The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation .
22 Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year .
23 This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep .
24 In 1652 they had established a very well-placed port at the Cape of Good Hope as a supply depot , but the Dutch East India Company was always a little worried when settlers at the base interpreted their responsibility to provide food for passing ships as a reason for pushing on into the hinterland .
25 This psychology naturally lingered on into the supposedly liberal atmosphere of NEP in the form of the utopian hope that obligations imposed ‘ from the Centre ’ , as the peasants put it , could be avoided , whilst retaining economic rights .
26 Full of misgiving I drove on into the darkness .
27 I strolled on into the arbour .
28 She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home .
29 The dusty cart-track had become a lawn ; the village houses had given way to straight , symmetrical lines of bottle-palms ; in the borders the lilies and irises were in full bloom — wonderful swathes of azure and magenta leading on into the char-bagh .
30 Investigations are also going on into the state holding company , Corfo , the housing ministry and a state-owned bank where new officials have uncovered high-handed property transfers and loans made either to the army as an institution or to individual officers .
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