Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last of the Rat-Tail men walked on down the High Street towards the Cross , stars his calling-cards . |
| 2 | Pausing only to bury Wounded Mouth , the Nez Perce bands travelled on to the south fork of the Clearwater . |
| 3 | A large number of jubilant Boro fans ran on to the pitch to congratulate Pollock , a gesture which is now a criminal offence . |
| 4 | Only a few , such as the Royal Bristol Volunteers carried on , and in that instance it was to guard the many Napoleonic prisoners of war in Bristol . |
| 5 | Her d'Urberville ancestors slept on in their tombs , uncaring . |
| 6 | Last night , as amazed East Berliners looked on , East German soldiers and building workers began knocking down sections of the Wall . |
| 7 | Serb villagers egged on by propaganda from Serbia fear the nightmare is returning . |
| 8 | The ‘ hit squad ’ nurses from the Royal Victoria Infirmary dressed in St Trinians costumes leapt on and off the bus . |
| 9 | Their cheery , knees-up-Muvver-Brown , cock-er-nee grin gradually became eroded by a grim awareness of reality as the Thatcher years dragged on . |
| 10 | The Senate President , Jovito Salonga , warned that " we will further divide the nation and blood might flow " if the US forces stayed on . |
| 11 | Emma Cons lived on for another twelve years , continuing to work at her housing projects : but a new chapter had opened in the history of what was to become the Old Vic , as Lilian Baylis began to programme it for early films and then light opera and later Shakespeare . |
| 12 | To these weapons , NATO 's response has long been the Polaris and Poseidon missiles carried on nuclear submarines . |
| 13 | The defendant in proceedings before the Dover Justices carried on a restaurant business . |
| 14 | Usually I caught the bus , and then returned in the evening on one of the several RAF trucks laid on for our use . |
| 15 | But the Hollywood words rolled on . |