Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , players excel and quality rises when one 's team is being cheered on by four or five thousand enthusiastic fans and even the hundred plus that turn up here every week can lift a team , so , please , continue your support in the forthcoming season . |
| 2 | Double Silk , owned and still ridden at home by retired , 66-year-old farmer Reg Wilkins , was plunged on from 7–2 to 5–2 favourite . |
| 3 | Having been placed on to three lengths of webbing , six men would be required to lift the shell and put it into the case ; the webs were then cut , as it would not have been possible to withdraw them . |
| 4 | Black boxes the size of video-cassettes were welded on to 3,000 cars and hundreds of loops were buried in the roads . |
| 5 | Santiaguito , which was a complex of four distinct domes joined on to one another in a single elongate ridge , is rarely quiet for long , and one can literally hear it growing , because there is an almost continual rattle of small stones and rocks falling from the higher parts down on to the scree slopes below it . |
| 6 | Added on to two . |
| 7 | By sheer good luck , the first desk she had tried had informed her that yes , a Lori Templeton was booked on to one of their flights . |
| 8 | The other bloke was being sat on by three other passengers , including the little old lady in the straw hat , while Preston hopped around moaning and clutching his wrist , but he did not tell Polly this . |
| 9 | Mistrust of Russia was widespread , though , and discussions with Britain concerning a possible alliance were also carried on during 1901 . |
| 10 | Although the average working week was still forty-eight hours , most men at that time had been reared when toil used to start at six o'clock in the morning and carried on until eight each evening . |
| 11 | The name of Hooper was not forgotten , for the company carried on until 1934 , based in Bonds Mill alone . |
| 12 | I finished at 4 a.m. this morning and others carried on until 5.30 p.m . |
| 13 | The business carried on until 1891 , when Thomas died , leaving Henry in control , aided by his four sons . |
| 14 | Lee 's carried on until 1930 or 31 . |
| 15 | The peace of Utrecht ended the war proper in 1713 , but desultory skirmishes carried on until 1714 . |
| 16 | The accountants carried on until 21 February 1990 . |
| 17 | Could a related business activity be carried on within one area of the shop by any of the family members without registering for VAT ( the turnover of this activity is expected to be low ) ? |
| 18 | Subject to the above , the related activity could be carried on within one area of the shop by any of the family . |
| 19 | The plating is carried on in eight vats , one each for silver , nickel and black nickel , two for brass plating , and three for copper plating . |
| 20 | Left : Fish of this size and quality were all grown on from 4–6 inch youngsters in only a year . |
| 21 | The nomes hung on to one another , stared into one another 's faces , and screamed . |
| 22 | The Commissariat for War still hung on to 752 coaches ; the Commissariat for Health had no fewer than 2,718 , and was even demanding a further 1,200 . |
| 23 | He was very soon to be forced to face the fact that things had moved on since 1939 . |
| 24 | Nigel , 27 , succeeds Colin Auton who has moved on after seven years at the hotel . |
| 25 | The Country Landowners Association wants the law tightened up so that travellers can be moved on after 24 , not the current 28 days . |
| 26 | of patients operated on within three months of their names appearing on the register ? |
| 27 | Stimulated by Gould 's remarks , he reached for a piece of paper lying near to hand — presumably one that was being drawn on by one of the zoological draughtsmen working at the Society at the time — and proceeded to write on the reverse side of the drawing . |
| 28 | Suppose that , however improbably , a balanced slate could nevertheless be agreed on in one party . |
| 29 | Then a render is trowelled on in two coats . |
| 30 | Generalizing a little , we might plot the stress trajectories , that is the direction in which the stress is handed on from one atomic bond to the next , very much as in Figure 2 of this chapter . |