Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He called out : ‘ I ca n't hold on any longer , ’ then fell straight on the ledge below , bounded out into the air , turning a somersault backwards , and pitching on to a grass projection some 30′ lower down …
2 Leaving Sagaing for our return journey by boat to Prome we got on to a sandbank and had to wait there until two tugs pulled us off .
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 Conversation , not only on that day , got on to An Adventure and would not easily get off it , though we wished to be speaking of other things .
5 Well George got on with a lot of people like that but of course , he was a Mason you see .
6 When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’
7 English-born , actually , and we got on like a house on fire .
8 They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up .
9 We got on like a house on fire .
10 Gav and my Aunt Janice got on like a house on fire , a combined location and fate I occasionally wished on them as I lay awake listening to the sounds of their love-making , a pastime I sometimes suspected I shared with people in a large part of the surrounding community , not to say northern Europe .
11 If you have a modem you can log on to a bulletin board and download it .
12 A hole saw looks like a hacksaw blade curled into a circle and fits on to a twist drill ( typically 6mm ) and can be used with an electric drill .
13 On the contrary , it was precisely the excessive femininity , laid on with a trowel as it were , that created the effect of someone pretending to be a woman , someone in fact rather desperately hoping to be taken for one .
14 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
15 My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it .
16 But the car lived on as a classic .
17 In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch .
18 However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park .
19 Seconds later they were off again , and she shut her eyes tight , pressed her cheek against his back and clung on like a limpet .
20 From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing .
21 His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock .
22 It goes on for a minute .
23 The Parks tournament at Calderstones Park , which starts on July 19 and goes on for a week , will have the added bonus of the Dunlop tennis roadshow , with Castle and other leading coaches topping the bill .
24 As soon as an assignment has been fully proofed it goes on to a list which is published every two months to all of the sales execs and you just look out for your number , all right ? and you 've got your own personal records of course , if you know you 've earned bonus then that 's where to claim it .
25 We ourselves have found that if a patient goes on to a diet which is relatively free from pesticides , herbicides and chemical additives , then often the homoeopathic remedies work much better than if the patient continues to eat an additive and junk-food-laden diet .
26 Many of Stenhouse 's objections arise out of other people 's oversimplifications , and it is of course true that we know very little of what actually goes on as a result of our work with students .
27 I believe it to have been factually true that Crossman 's ambition to gain and retain Cabinet office was the aspiration to be in a position to observe what goes on as an academic or a philosopher observes .
28 ‘ And , you know , I have n't the faintest idea of what actually goes on at a baby farm .
29 I think especially in the , in the hotel project it 's useful to have a little bar chart saying this is what goes on in a bathroom .
30 ’ We ca n't attend their committee meetings which is where all the real decisions are made , and we ca n't get information about what goes on in a committee meeting .
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