Example sentences of "[verb] on into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The oral tradition lived on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 2 | A low Mughal gateway led on into a wet and glistening flagstone courtyard ; it was deserted but for a solitary pupil running late towards his class . |
| 3 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 4 | Such arguments over values , political or religious , were to go on into the next decade . |
| 5 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 6 | Setting men to guard both , Douglas and Ramsay moved on into the outer bailey , hardly able to believe their good fortune thus far . |
| 7 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 8 | He was hitting huge distances down wind but his shots to the green failed to bite and often rolled on into the rough beyond . |
| 9 | The remainder deflected downwards into the rear pressurised compartment , went straight through the conduit carrying the cables to the lower rear turret , then carried on into the rear gunner 's position , perforating the hatch and embedding itself in the lagging on the armour plating at the rear of the position . |
| 10 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 11 | The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation . |
| 12 | This , by the way , erm , it it is applied with this study , and that is during the thirties , particularly on the , well it it actually carried on into the forties , but but the , there was a almost a character in many plays , where one one character was , in effect , the family black sheep . |
| 13 | We sailed on into a warm enveloping darkness . |
| 14 | We have an excellent reputation in Oxfordshire as an Education Authority erm and a reputation which extends around the country , so I do see it as a vote of confidence , and I am very pleased about it , but I do think that the whole exercise was somewhat premature in the light of the erm research and investigation that was going on into the tertiary college , and indeed the consulting process actually ran through at the same time as the campaign was running on whether the Banbury School should opt out , and erm regrettably I think has lost something as a result of having the two run together . |
| 15 | There was a continuity then in Unionist attitudes to the war , going on into the post-war years in demands for a harsh treatment of Germany after defeat . |
| 16 | They walked on into the thickening woodland . |
| 17 | The little car rushed on into the dismal labyrinth . |
| 18 | As the play blundered on into the second half , the Airdrie strategy was clear — to ignore any pretence of building attacks from the back of the team through to the midfield . |
| 19 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 20 | I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged |
| 21 | Firstly , the proportion of teachers who , having successfully completed the first year , stay on into the second in order to obtain the Certificate in Education ( FE ) is proving to be extremely high : for example , of the 1,128 candidates for the first year courses being offered in 1979–80 , no fewer than 1,024 moved into their second year in 1980–1 . |
| 22 | The line went on into a big Jamaican area , and I was the only white left in a full carriage . |
| 23 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 24 | Slipping off her muddy shoes , Leonora went on into the big living-room , every nerve on edge as she crept silently across the familiar worn carpet towards the seductive warmth from the stove , but there was still no sign of Penry . |
| 25 | Implicit in the rhetoric of those who campaigned for stiffer age-of-consent legislation ( and the campaign went on into the 1930s to raise it above 16 , even to 21 ) was the assumption that young working-class girls were ignorant and defenceless and could not decide for themselves . |
| 26 | Most , in both categories , left after taking the School Certificate ( if not sooner ) , but a trickle went on into the sixth form and even to the universities . |
| 27 | The old Bishop waited for the little murmur of sympathetic approval that ran through the ranks , and they listened just as sympathetically as he rambled on into the usual pious platitudes that ended his eulogy . |
| 28 | I do believe that er we go on into the nineties the European Parliament will play an increasingly important role , but this will be because countries and peoples will be asking for it to play , to control the European Commission in Brussels , to push forward the policies which people are looking for and it is after all , I think we should recall , that it is the Germans now who are calling for strength and institutions , including increased powers for the European Parliament . |
| 29 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 30 | And here she 's telling Ruth , now what you 've got ta do , she 's she 's got him , she 's got her introduced to Boaz and she tells him it 's a strange custom , one that 's perhaps even stranger in our eyes today but there er after the party , the great harvest supper she 's , the the they lie down in the barn together , they all just , they 're tired it 's , it 's , the party 's gone on into the wee hours of the morning , and there they just , they do n't bother going home , they lie down there in the barn together all of them and she says to Ruth what you must do according to the custom is , you go and you lie at the feet of Boaz and wait , just wait , and wait for him to respond to you . |