Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 2 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 3 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 4 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 5 | So I went on to reciprocal for 10 minutes to seek a more friendly environment , which I did , and then set course again . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 7 | Before I move on to other contributions , can I remind everybody that we are dealing with the Employee Resources Report . |
| 8 | I move on to Labour motion one six . |
| 9 | Erm , we are indeed talking to Health Authority about the matters that were mentioned but can I come on to occupational therapists because I 'm very glad to say that erm we are able to recruit occupational therapists in this county . |
| 10 | Fig. 1.2 shows the essentials of the system design process but since feed-back paths are omitted this figure does not indicate either the repetition and iteration which goes on in operational design or the different possible priorities and variability in the order of decision-making . |
| 11 | These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray . |
| 12 | Food , of course , remains a topic of passionate concern — the focus of minor complaints and disagreements which rumble on for long periods — and outbursts of contentment which are extremely short-lived . |
| 13 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 14 | The claim is that because of this feature of the fossil record the major features of evolution , the sort of trends that you see over hundreds of millions of years , are not merely a kind of adding together of the changes which go on by natural selection within populations and which we can study today , but that some quite different kind of process must be responsible for the major features of evolution , other than natural selection of variants within populations . |
| 15 | The session which follows on from late night deliberations comes amid predictions that tomorrow 's Commons Euro vote will be a dramatic cliffhanger . |
| 16 | In order to house his family the King had divided up many of the larger rooms , and the different floors had been connected by narrow spiral staircases which gave on to gloomy corridors badly lit by oil lamps . |
| 17 | I 'd really like to erm tell you the brief story of the events which lead on from Good Friday to Pentecost Day . |
| 18 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 19 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 20 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 21 | According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted . |
| 22 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 23 | ‘ Next question , ’ she moved on with wan humour . |
| 24 | Yeah , but she hung on like blue death ! |
| 25 | Talking of bitches , how are you getting on with old Sinbad in Cas. ? ’ |
| 26 | How you get on with other people . |
| 27 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 28 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 29 | ‘ And so you signed on with International Models ? ’ |
| 30 | Ayr , Irvine and Kilmarnock Academies could each lay claim to having had the largest number of scholars who went on to great things but , before these grander seats of learning were established , several small , seemingly totally inadequate schools had produced a succession of men of whom the county can be proud . |