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Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] another " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	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 .
2	Er , her father lived on for another six years .
3	When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another .
4	Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh .
5	The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm .
6	He put the letter in his Out tray and moved on to another piece of paper , and then he stopped and went back to the first letter .
7	So they achieved it in one state and then they moved on to another and started a whole new campaign .
8	We sailed on for another two weeks .
9	It veered on to another track and smashed into the approaching passenger train .
10	And she soldiered on for another 15 years before she finally died .
11	And then she saw that there was a narrow , open doorway in the wall opposite her , which opened on to another chamber .
12	Allen looked about and then scampered on to another branch .
13	Well I do n't know , there are such good Japanese coupes now , you know you see these lovely Toyotas and Nissans that they do the sort of two plus two and they 're really lovely cars and but if I change c car this next year I 'll still have to have four seater or , you know , plenty of room in the boot so I can pick you up from Haileybury and all that crap , but if I hung on for another two years I could then get something I actually wanted , you know .
14	Wasps pressed on with another penalty from Young while the students ' best hope of winning possession came from their 6ft 9in lock Derwin Jones .
15	The jitney rushed on into another narrow tunnel .
16	And then from that school you went on to another one ?
17	( She went on for another seven ! ) .
18	I think , if we went on for another half an hour or forty five minutes , we could clear virtually everything .
19	But he was in a cheerful mood and he went on with another story altogether .
20	The dog-handlers struggled on for another hour but then they , too , gave up .
21	One vast hall of columns gave on to another as the temple rose in long slow ramps towards the inner sanctuaries : seven chapels dedicated to seven gods .
22	The group carried on for another album and a few more singles but the charts were changing , and their time was up .
23	She carried on for another year and then died suddenly from a heart attack .
24	McDougall carried on for another three years , when he was succeeded by Leslie Edwards .
25	An hour of wall-to-wall Carpeting would have been perfect , but they would n't get offstage , and dragged on for another 30 minutes .
26	The fighting dragged on for another year , during which time the Nationalist armies occupied Catalonia and the ever-precarious unity of the Republican political forces collapsed .
27	First , Waddell notched his second try after an incisive break by Little who also converted ; and then it was the right winger Manning who latched on to another break by Murray Wallace and made the score 32-0 .
28	The last two lines are not based on Mr Graham 's observation since he travelled on to another destination ; they were put in ‘ to gratify Mr Graham ’ , as the Fenwick note has it .
29	Rather than alight at the Gare du Nord railway terminal , they stayed on for another stop , leaving at Châtelet in the centre of the city .
30	His widow Margaret held on for another 45 years , beset on all sides by warring local landowners who claimed parts of the island , as its boundaries grew ever-closer to the Holderness mainland .