Example sentences of "[adv] on [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | Sometimes they would read our palms , finishing by giving them a little scratch that signified they were available — one scratch twenty douros , two scratches fifty douros and so on up the scale from an ‘ in and out ’ in the toilets or a ‘ short time ’ in a back room to a whole night in the brothel , with champagne and bath . |
2 | The syllabuses are labelled Class I , Class 2 and so on up the ladder . |
3 | The group of circles formed a genus , and the genera could similarly be arranged in circles , and so on up the scale to higher groupings . |
4 | And 6 per cent is better than 5 , 7 per cent better than 6 , and so on up the gradual , continuous series . |
5 | There was a time when five-star hotels were assumed to be better than four-star and so on down the line . |
6 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
7 | Then take one step backwards again ( to the ‘ a ’ node ) and down the next route forwards ( to the ‘ c ’ node ) , and so on down the first route from each node , until the end of the graph is again reached ( i.e. the complete candidate string ljaclc ) . |
8 | Directors , whether of social services or in the voluntary field , are notoriously cautious in the light of committee opinion ; so are assistant directors and managers , and so on down the line . |
9 | This means , in a group of say ten hens , that the ‘ boss ’ hen is dominant to all the other nine hens , the second hen is subordinate to the boss hen but dominates the other eight , and so on down the hierarchy . |
10 | And so on down the years the litany of excitement and drama has continued . |
11 | We bypassed Shaibah of the famous and immortal song Shaibah Blues — which will be belted out by our sons and their sons I hope for evermore — and on to Bahrain where we landed and had a bit of a briefing by the CO of No 84 Squadron based at Shaihali , and so on down the Gulf to look for the City of Glasgow . |
12 | To take a classic example , the big toe relates to the head , and so on down the body . |