Example sentences of "[pron] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not yet dry but she had no others apart from her best ones , so she pulled them on over the warm , dry woollen stockings into which she had changed upon coming in from the buildings . |
| 2 | I think both he and Weatherall are outstanding prospects , but need an ‘ old head ’ to bring them on over the next couple of years ( pity about O'Leary ) . |
| 3 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
| 4 | The new novel has married the pair and moved them on into the mid-Sixties and from the provinces to London , where Patrick works misgivingly in a fashionable publishing-house . |
| 5 | I think it opens up the child 's awareness to what 's available and what 's coming erm moves them on into the next century really . |
| 6 | When they do use bricks here , they paint them brick red so you will know they are bricks , then they stick them on to the front outside walls as an ornamental display . |
| 7 | It has become a specialist in adding value to chemicals and selling them on to the major companies . |
| 8 | Republics collect taxes but are refusing to pass them on to the central government . |
| 9 | Hawkmoths , which are among the swiftest insect flyers capable of speeds of 50 kph , have reduced their hind wings very considerably in size and latched them on to the long narrow fore-wings with a curved bristle . |
| 10 | The goods always cost more than the mere monetary price ; and it is the object of the system to externalise these costs , by passing them on to the poor or to the impaired resource-base of the earth , and by inviting even the rich to live in collusive dissociation from the costs they , too , must pay . |
| 11 | It 's dragged a few graceful oddities away from comparing navel fluff in their garages and shoved them on to the European circuit . |
| 12 | He pulled off his work jeans and threw them on to the little pile in the corner . |
| 13 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 14 | But their real function is to give people a chance to be famous for five minutes , by saying something that will get them on to the next news broadcast . |
| 15 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 16 | Instead of getting rid of the programmes , they should sack the bosses who put them on in the first place . |
| 17 | Dressing apraxia refers to difficulty in putting on clothes ; the patient may manipulate them haphazardly , unable to relate them spatially to his own body , or he may be unable to put them on in the correct sequence . |
| 18 | It would be best to grow them on in the smaller tank as they are likely to be attacked , if not eaten , by the larger fish . |
| 19 | You did n't turn them on until the second part . |
| 20 | The house was hot when they got back into it and they walked around with nothing on in the dark rooms with windows and doors open . |
| 21 | He pulled rank and went to bed at half past eleven , leaving me on for the late-night drinks . |
| 22 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 23 | Which brings me on to the major bookshop sellers , led by two strong titles : |
| 24 | yes and that , that in a way leads me on to the next party , if we 're gon na have an agreement between this group or , you know , the other group |
| 25 | When the old man was finished we trooped aboard and settled ourselves on to the wet seats . |
| 26 | where the dropped kerb is , that takes you on to the private road . |
| 27 | Erm , can I take you on to the next one which is twelve B two . |
| 28 | He should then carry you on with the next question . |
| 29 | Bream are not great fighters and if you got one on then you knew it would stay on ; the trouble was getting one on in the first place ! |
| 30 | Aggie pointed to the seat at the front of the cart , and immediately Millie had done so , she gripped the iron frame of the seat , heaved herself on to the first step , then , almost with a lunge , on to the seat ; but this time she did n't say , as she usually did , ‘ I 'm past this ; I 'll sit on the back in future and you 'll take him , ’ but she jerked the reins and put the pony into a trot . |