Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 2 | ‘ Once I got on to a main road I would n't have any trouble getting a lift . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I got on to a friend in Civitavecchia who seems to think that some mate of his saw Jeff this morning down at the harbour . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It was important that I moved on to a bigger stage , with a club in the top bracket of the English First Division , or Celtic and Rangers . ’ |
| 5 | Then I moved on to an Australian made Maton which was really playable . |
| 6 | I walked on past a dead cow and the arrow markers for the airstrip . |
| 7 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 8 | The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello . |
| 9 | Selina and I get on like a house on fire . |
| 10 | Missing the students , I crushed on to a table occupied by several globular exters with drooping antennae and startled expressions . |
| 11 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 12 | Pedalling home , I used to play a game — that with every light I saw on in a house , I would get £1,000 a year . |
| 13 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 14 | At a show in a dilapidated disco in Barrow-in-Furness , I went on after a community pantomime , in which the wicked witch — a local Labour councillor — was booed off by trade unionists involved in industrial action . |
| 15 | Before I move on to a fuller description of helicopter radios , let's summarise the above : |
| 16 | In the next chapter , I move on to a more interesting , more telling and more fruitful critique of inductivism . |
| 17 | In section 3.4 , I move on to an outline of the methods of the Belfast research . |
| 18 | ( They get up — To GUIL ) I come on in a minute . |
| 19 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
| 20 | Well I stayed on as an orderly because they said that I could erm I could marry because er I was n't erm classed as erm tt Er I would n't pass it on to me husband , so I could marry , provided I I prevented having children for er five years , that you had to see the Doctor until The medical Doctor at Nottingham , until he pronounced you clear , you see ? |
| 21 | I stayed on as an orderly , up there . |
| 22 | Jenny let them spin on for a while ; but she was above all things a sensible girl and had no desire to find herself irretrievably stuck . |
| 23 | ( rather a lot of which goes on inside an internal combustion engine . ) |
| 24 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 25 | It was painted while and there was an untidy hedge in front of it , divided by a rickety gate which led on to a short path to the front door . |
| 26 | But what kind of battle ? she wondered apprehensively , discovering an exit from this bedroom which led on to a terrace , with an archway framing a velvety night sky filled with bright silver stars . |
| 27 | On the third floor , she led him to one of four doors , which opened on to a firelit bedroom , with a great canopied bed , steaming water-jugs and wash-basin , and a garderobe in the thickness of the walling with candle-shelf , stone seat and chute . |
| 28 | Then she saw that , in her haste to leave the hall , she had fled to the nearest exit , which opened on to a passage running along the side of the great-room . |
| 29 | Exquisitely furnished with antiques and fine paintings , it has impressive lounges and a bar which opens on to a large terrace where dancing can be arranged . |
| 30 | When the youngsters want to go outside and play they have to leave via the backdoor which opens on to a busy road . |