Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rangers keeper Tony Roberts failed to hold on to a corner from Alfons Groenendijk . |
| 2 | Becky kept holding on to the picture . |
| 3 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 4 | By 1912 , however , the influence of Matisse and the Fauves , which the Brücke had grafted on to a more purely native form of Expressionism , was definitely on the wane , and German painters were feeling the influence of both Cubism and Futurism . |
| 5 | In 1935 , after the Murrells débâcle and the dawning realization that very little which could be described as administration had gone on in Masai District , the Tanganyika government did in fact begin to give some serious thought to the type of man which should be sent there . |
| 6 | He then noticed Mrs Wilks at the telephone box and , in his rear-view mirror , he saw that the grey saloon car had pulled on to the hard shoulder and was heading towards her . |
| 7 | The talk had moved on to Brazil 's thieves , particularly Rio 's , leaving me feeling vulnerable again — like a man with one leg . |
| 8 | Earlier a smaller number of Cardiff supporters had run on to the pitch in celebration of their side 's equaliser in a game which the Welsh club eventually won 4–2 . |
| 9 | Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home . |
| 10 | Ann said hold on to the pattern , she said I do n't know what to do , erm knit them |
| 11 | A light had gone on in one of the downstairs rooms in Puddephat 's wing . |
| 12 | All over the room a search had gone on for what the scientists called ‘ forensic residues ’ . |
| 13 | Only one figure had subsided on to the ground , his face to the wall , and all their gazes were on him , terrified and arrow-sharp with hatred . |
| 14 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 15 | At least one bookseller remarked to me that so many ex-library books had come on to the market in the last few years that he had begun to realise what it must have been like when the great monastic libraries were being dispersed . |
| 16 | ‘ Love is a local Anguish , ’ he wrote after he and Hucks had travelled on from Wrexham . |
| 17 | It concluded that the best graduates in these subjects tended to stay on at university rather than go into industry or teaching . |
| 18 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 19 | Auntie Jane kept going on about the violence . |
| 20 | Prior to these changes , Wigston was typical of many Tudor and Stuart parishes where smallholders managed to hang on to their property for generation after generation . |
| 21 | The whole column proceeded to fall on to the ground . |
| 22 | David Plange added another try for the home side but Widnes fought back with further scores from Bobby Goulding and Stuart Spruce but the Eagles managed to hold on for victory . |
| 23 | They tended to cast doubt on the objective nature of the atonement — at least the Catholic scholastics and Reformers had held on to that — stressing instead the subjective changes wrought in mankind by Christ 's sacrifice ( such as a growth in God-consciousness or moral transformation ) . |
| 24 | I had surely noticed that nearly all the ingredients had come on to the train fresh ? |
| 25 | And at a later date , part of them had been , another storey had put on to them . |
| 26 | The boy had turned on to his side , the fingers of one hand lightly touching his neck . |
| 27 | The bus driver had given chase , had managed to signal to a police car and the chase had gone on through Kirkintilloch and Milton of Campsie before Cook lost control in Birdston Road . |
| 28 | After the Council had moved on from chapter II , Cardinal Ottaviani , without protest from any of those presiding , returned to it in defiance of the rules . |
| 29 | The Sergeant and the Constable had continued on for two steps through the door towards their senior officer without realising that they had left Jimmy behind . |
| 30 | As for the iron test , my child sat holding on to Mummy while being read to . |