Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [vb past] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three riders came on , but giving the feeling that they were holding back some , not anxious to ride right up until they made sure everything was keno . |
| 2 | The three brothers went on trying to build their town of Skadar , and every night the stones fell apart and the buildings fell down . |
| 3 | The three droves sent on as presents to Esau have reached him , and now Esau and his four hundred men are within sight of Jacob and his little entourage . |
| 4 | ‘ We have 17 schoolboys signed on now , and there will be a further intake of 13 YTS lads during the summer . |
| 5 | Mansell , 39 , and a winner of 29 GPs went on : ‘ Any relationship between a driver and an F1 team is vital for success and partly dependent on money because it defines how seriously the team and its backers take the driver . |
| 6 | From her first class in Morden nine members went on to train as teachers , with Jean Parmiter eventually becoming a Senior Trainer . |
| 7 | Nine nuns leapt on to the stage of a Tibetan opera at the Yoghurt festival in the Norbulinka Park on September 2 and were quickly seized . |
| 8 | On 1st June 1885 , a group comprising 118 of the exiled Nez Perce arrived at Lapwai , while Joseph 's 150 followers continued on to the Colville Reservation . |
| 9 | The fiery Scot was first to react when two supporters ran on to The Dell to stage an injury-time protest . |
| 10 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 11 | ‘ As these first two days dragged on I began to realise that there was no hope of saving my arm . |
| 12 | One should of course record one 's satisfaction that the two leaders got on well together , and that they smoothed over certain niggling differences . |
| 13 | Another two jackets hung on hangers on pegs on the wall . |
| 14 | The two girls ran on until they came to Vasilissa 's home . |
| 15 | Joseph Hucks now seemed a poor companion in comparison with Coleridge 's new Oxford friend , and as the two men walked on under a blazing sun , first to Gloucester — ‘ a nothing-to-be-said about Town ’ — and then to Ross-on-Wye , Coleridge 's thoughts returned constantly to the substance of his conversations with Southey . |
| 16 | Alice was tired and sat down to rest some 300m below the summit while the two men walked on . |
| 17 | Seventy-four per cent of women who were married in 1900–9 who reached two children went on to have a third or more . |
| 18 | One English girl had fallen a few yards behind her companions and , as thirty spectators looked on , lost her daysack , with its camera , cash and diary , in a tug-of-war with the thief . |
| 19 | The two boys got on remarkably well , playing violin duets , and engaging in friendly contests of virtuosity . |
| 20 | Bert went , and the two women sat on . |
| 21 | At dinner the two cholerics carried on a huddled conversation while I sat at the end of the row feeling the cutlery might melt in my hands . |
| 22 | Jutting out of it were a series of tall posts , high as a man , and attacking them were a score of figures whilst thirty others looked on , wooden swords in their hands , and three Myrcans directed the whole group . |
| 23 | Of the 20 trains travelled on from north-east Kent — Herne Bay , in my constituency to Cannon Street — two arrived on time , 17 were late and one was cancelled because no crew were available due to a clerical error in the rostering . |