Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hand feeling blindly for throat or arm or hair landed in the middle of Gabriel 's face , and Garvey 's fingers clung on like a starfish , pressing it out of shape . |
| 2 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 3 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
| 4 | William lived on for a further 16 years after that , into the reign of George V and the First World War . |
| 5 | This one point alone has almost certainly caused many novice flyers to struggle on with an unmanageable model which could easily be completely transformed by correct adjustment . |
| 6 | Alexandra sank on to a stool and bowed her head . |
| 7 | The system of planning controls imposes limits on their freedom to locate operations where they will or to increase the scale , or change the nature , of the activities carried on at a particular site . |
| 8 | That was the trouble with harbour-watching , there were so many inexplicable activities carried on at a stately pace and with the deliberation of a choreographed performance . |
| 9 | Cords , white or beige , were worn early on in small numbers but in mid'71 black/bottle green/navy straight leg Levi cords caught on in a big way . |
| 10 | The roof goes on in a few tumultuous hours . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the search goes on for a scientific breakthrough . |
| 12 | But the car lived on as a classic . |
| 13 | Today certain people will not go on the station after dark , so the past tragedy lingers on over an entire railway complex . |
| 14 | A minute later Payton moved on to a sloppy Jobling pass and shot into the side netting as fans jumped to their feet in anticipation of a goal . |
| 15 | The Australian trainer came on with a bucket of water to try to revive the apparently comatose Fulton . |
| 16 | Still they waited , as the Scots came on at a canter . |
| 17 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 18 | England defenders Rob Jones and Mark Wright came on in a wholesale reshuffle of resources , but any danger that United would feed off the disruption was dismissed by McManaman 's leggy skills . |
| 19 | However , the Scots launched a spirited recovery in the second half against a very powerful side made up of former and future Wallaby internationals and , especially after David Sole came on as a replacement prop , they took complete control of the match , running in four excellent tries in an exciting 24–24 draw . |
| 20 | A dim light came on behind a blind in the Frankenstein mansion . |
| 21 | Then the door behind my head jerked open , the car light came on like a flashbulb , and there was a seven-foot black pimp snarling down at me with a mahogany baseball bat in his fist . |
| 22 | For three days , while Asmar lingered on in a Beirut hospital , Coleman stayed in the apartment and slept with a gun under his pillow . |
| 23 | For example , we would expect to find cells that give an excitatory response to long wavelength light shone on one part of the retina and an inhibitory response to long wavelength light shone on to an adjacent part . |
| 24 | New Scientist published an article with the transfixing title of ‘ The search for scale invariant cosmology ’ , showing that there was a search going on for a deeper understanding of the Universe . |
| 25 | Payton raced on to a well weighted pass from Wdowczyk , held off Bain , and then drilled the ball low past Mathers . |
| 26 | Whether or not this pilot study leads on to a larger project depends upon first , whether or not the aid project goes ahead , and second , whether or not the pilot study indicates that a more ambitious study is feasible . |
| 27 | Well away from the motorway now , each new place quickly gave way to further forest and , just as Jenna was beginning to be lulled into a strange peace by the dappled sunlight of the place , the soothing green of nature , the car turned on to a narrow road and began to climb steadily . |
| 28 | Such distortion of the data leads on to a misperception of problems . |
| 29 | George Moore 's depiction of Jesus as having survived the Crucifixion followed on from a contention maintained not only by some of the oldest heresies , but also by the Koran , and thus widely accepted throughout Islam and the Islamic world . |
| 30 | She was still in a state of shock , her eyes locked on to an imaginary spot in the centre of the windscreen . |