Example sentences of "[coord] [vb -s] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 2 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 3 | A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill . |
| 4 | Then the van rolls forward , gathers speed , and drifts on by . |
| 5 | In Los Angeles workers joke that the rush hour begins at 5.30am and goes on to 8.30pm . |
| 6 | A major work in the field remains A Dictionary of British Surnames by P.H. Reaney , in which the relevant entry reads , ‘ Fursey , Fussey , Fuzzey , Forsey ’ , and goes on to instance John Forshay 1431 ( Dorset ) and Roger Fursey 1583 ( Surrey ) . |
| 7 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 8 | Crossing the road it follows a path across country to a small road leading to Ballagh Cross and goes on to Armagh Manor . |
| 9 | There are four essentially different things a process can do on its first step : ( i ) it diverges ; ( ii ) it communicates with its environment ( and goes on to its second step ) ; ( iii ) it stops because , even though it has not terminated , it can not agree with its environment on any communication ; ( iv ) it terminates in some state . |
| 10 | The Guardian report on the Swindon game praises Strachan at length and goes on to critically assess Rocky in the light of his lack of match fitness and his attitude . |
| 11 | The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill . |
| 12 | And it goes out in a blaze of colour — a spectacular firework display which starts at 6.45pm and goes on into the night . |
| 13 | The wife poses against the bright red carpet and lime green sofa which she 's chosen and goes on about her husband 's appalling colour sense . |
| 14 | The lovely scenery continues as the walk travels along woodland paths to reach the little lake of Tarn Hows and goes on past Elterwater to Dungeon Ghyll . |
| 15 | A debate that starts at 3.30 in the afternoon and goes on until 2 o'clock in the morning is hardly an advert for open government . |
| 16 | Blithe Spirit opens at the Everyman Theatre tonight and goes on until 19th June . |
| 17 | A benefit concert is a two-hour show that begins at 7.30pm and goes on till dawn when members of the audience are either asleep or drunk . |
| 18 | Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect . |
| 19 | So my suggestion and this is only a suggestion , the beards which in the past have been interpreted as a kind of erm epigrammatic signal , in other words a kind of erm sign on the face of the male as they 're deceived , my guess is that , th that beards may actually have evolved to protect the throat because erm the critical thing in , in killing somebody is to block the , the windpipe and that 's and in fact even , even lions do this , you saw in the film when a lion kills an antelope or something , he does n't go to all the trouble of making horrible gashes , he grabs the , the windpipe and holds on until the antelope or whatever it is is just er |
| 20 | It is an archaic situation , and lives on in the unconscious of people today , and may emerge in a random group situation , and is in any case present unconsciously and affects the action of people in groups . |
| 21 | So he steels himself and starts on about Ireland and exile , beginning with his journey from Dublin to work as a navvy in London in the ‘ 70s . |
| 22 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |
| 23 | A stream of beer runs across the table and drips on to his trouser leg . |
| 24 | On a slow day , Quigley just goes through the newspapers and rambles on about whatever comes into his brain . |
| 25 | Howard smiles , and frowns , and thinks about it seriously as they all have tea in the orchard , and Miriam , in her dark glasses and clothes for motoring out to the country in , smokes furiously to keep away the insects , and chatters on about what happened when they went to dinner with the Chases the previous week , and Michael Wayland forgot Prue 's name . |
| 26 | Oak woodland covers the next stretch of hillside on the right and leads on to the Forestry Commission conifer forest . |
| 27 | The first line begins with the man who has justly been termed ‘ the father of modern theology ’ , Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher ( 1768–1834 ) , who was Professor of Theology in Berlin from 1809 ; and leads on to Albrecht Ritschl ( 1822–89 ) , Professor in Göttingen from 1864 , and those who under his influence formed the school of what is now generally known as Liberal Theology . |
| 28 | This begins with the concept of interrupts introduced in 1.2 , and leads on to the idea of interconnecting a number of processors . |
| 29 | When the Greeks begin to use it , it is also part of their interest in mastering the appearance of nature , and leads on to perspective and chiaroscuro , to European painting . |
| 30 | At last the house has made our peace with us and hangs on to her slates in the gardens . |