Example sentences of "[coord] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 An outline is first piped directly on to the cake or on to non-stick ( preferably waxed ) paper .
2 But he went down to Suffolk very often , much more often perhaps than he would have done had Wyvis Hall been destined to pass back to the Berelands or on to one of those cousins in the United States .
3 Semi-proletarianisation is closely linked to temporary intra-rural migration , as numbers of peasants move to a particular area for seasonal work and then move back to their small plots of land or on to another area , where a different crop has reached the planting or harvesting stage .
4 Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas .
5 Then contact either on or on for further details .
6 He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys .
7 Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) .
8 I mean that because Deborah kept going on and on and on about this three hour thing did n't she ?
9 In fact there is little natural water hereabouts ; what there is usually disappears down cracks and fissures , tumbling down sunless waterfalls and on through subterranean channels to reappear some distance lower down in the valleys .
10 You dip down the drive from the Yoxford to Peasenhall road across an ornamental bridge and on towards this plain and golden Greek Revival house .
11 They would go on and on at great speed .
12 Went on and on at this young lad who 'd spoken who thumped him he 'd apparently just one punch , I do n't know but but anyway all the charges have been dropped against this lad now so
13 Others will continue across the Mediterranean , over the Sahara and on into southern Africa .
14 They went through it and on into another room where there was more daylight .
15 Perhaps she would simply lead him on and on into some dark chamber of doubt and fear .
16 And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations !
17 These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) .
18 When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver .
19 The arrests gave Seth a record of at least nine drink driving incidents , leading the judge to order him into Alcoholics Anonymous and on to two years ' probation .
20 The share of personal assets owned by the 90 per cent below the richest 10 per cent has dramatically increased from 8 per cent in 1911 to 17 per cent in 1960 , and on to 46 per cent in 1983 .
21 And on to sixty five .
22 I climbed through the Megger Stones and on to Great Coum looking down Dentdale and Deepdale .
23 The fabulous museum tells the story of moving images beginning in 2000 BC with shadow puppets through the silent era and the golden age of Hollywood , and on to recent developments in television .
24 In his most recent work , he has moved away from elaborate vessels and on to rough-textured jigsaw-like pieces — the ceramicist 's equivalent of collage .
25 His passengers were all shaken and some were thrown from their seats and on to each other . ’
26 From the crest turn left and follow the length of the ridge , over Blea Rigg to Sergeant Man and on to High White Stones ( 4.5 miles ) .
27 E. Harwich has become a ferry port , or packet station , mainly for passengers to the Hook of Holland and on to northern Europe and West Germany .
28 And on to any other business .
29 Not only is there a great depth to the pressure for change , but it also exists on an enormously wide number of fronts — from the National Curriculum through assessment and on to open enrolment and the local management of schools and ( for some ) beyond that to grant maintained status or other ‘ exotics ’ .
30 That means that if they only take the score card then you 're in there fairly quickly do the advertising sales and come out and on to another site .
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