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