Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt he 'd enjoyed this association with young men , trousers and jackets endlessly tried on in curtained booths . |
| 2 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 3 | But when you first see it , it can be rather frightening , so hold on to small children 's hands . |
| 4 | Er well Susan 's erm gone to , obviously gone on to senior school now er she 's , she went , she started this year . |
| 5 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 6 | They are very interested in successful women , but not turned on by facial good looks . |
| 7 | Trained civil staff is much below the normal level and can not carry on without military help . |
| 8 | Do not carry on with large water changes , however , as these only perpetuate the problem . |
| 9 | There is no reason anyway to reinvent the wheel , and we need to know initially what is already going on at different levels , in different forums , in different geographical areas , before engaging in a pilot project to network available training and encourage initiatives where there are gaps . |
| 10 | Proud of the rapid development time for the 601 , the two companies are nevertheless rushing on to complete work on three other promised iterations of the part , now under development at IBM 's Somerset plant in Austin , Texas . |
| 11 | Jane is an abductee , someone who believes they have been forcibly abducted by aliens , spirited up to spaceships and physically experimented on in various alarming ways ( rectal probing , artificial insemination , induced premature births ) . |
| 12 | Employers could not pass on in full these extra costs to the consumers because of the competitive international situation , with the result that profitability fell . |
| 13 | From the fact that a mental process does not appear in introspection one can not infer that it does not go on at non-conscious levels of the mind . |
| 14 | One does get the feeling , none the less , that many traditional teachers still think of film as being a classroom novelty useful to give their students a welcome treat : yet many students , watching the grey , flickering images uncertainly projected on to unsuitable screens by elderly and noisy equipment in stuffy ill-curtained rooms , may be forgiven for wanting a bit of first-rate formal teaching as a relief . |
| 15 | Unlike Aycliffe hospital , residents are not put on to traditional ‘ Nightingale ’ wards . |
| 16 | Like it or lump it , the world is slowly turning on to Graphical User Interfaces , whether they be Windows , the Apple Mac 's operating system , or the Next — not forgetting OS/2 v 2.0 , of course . |
| 17 | They gradually caught on at other establishments , although not on such a substantial scale . |
| 18 | Is a search still going on for missing material ? |
| 19 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |
| 20 | Old Angie took everything seriously , always going on about mortal sin , and I got sodding tired of it , and of her , tell the truth . |
| 21 | He is dynamic and creative , always moving on to new realisations of his infinite activity . |
| 22 | In so far as fairness is used within the traditional adjudicative framework the balancing involved therein may be different in degree but not in kind to that which has always gone on within natural justice itself . |
| 23 | Once typed on to special paper , the copy could be pasted on to the boards and , with no need for hot metal , or skilled printers , was camera-ready . |
| 24 | In the case of muscle it seems that there is a master gene controlling the expression of all the main genes , known as myogenin and it is always switched on in mature muscle cells . |
| 25 | In their factory , so essential to the prosperity of Trazior — to its trade and supply routes forever preyed on by vicious nomads — the Valences lived their whole lives , many of them adapted by surgery to their specialised tasks . |
| 26 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 27 | But it seems a small number of former workers may still fight on in industrial tribunals . |
| 28 | It also goes on for bloody ages . |
| 29 | Arizona , according to one columnist , E.J. Montini , ‘ is like the kid who stole his parents ' car and is out careering on to other people 's lawns , crashing into garbage cans and running red lights . ’ |
| 30 | We are all curious to know what really goes on in other families and all equally determined to preserve the privacy of our own family life . |