Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I persisted , rather surprised that somebody who really had done something was so reticent , when there are people , like me for instance , who bleat on about the most tawdry experiences . |
| 2 | There are few examples of their being scattered extensively and repeatedly used within a single text ; where this does happen , as for instance in Les quatre Souhais Saint Martin , the practice can readily be justified by its thematic significance ( on which see further below ) , as again can be seen to be the case with the cornucopia of excrement that Robin drops on to the deservedly victimized Jouglet . |
| 3 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 4 | But she always insisted on taking her turn when hounds moved on to the most unlikely draw of the day . |
| 5 | Smiling as she surveyed the posters on the walls of the twins ' bedroom — obviously Peter Rabbit was still popular here in New York ! — she moved on to the much larger main bedroom . |
| 6 | Instead of the old concept of teaching , according to which the teacher , possessed of superior powers and superior knowledge , attempted to pass on to the more able of his pupils that non-practical culture which would most benefit them personally , a new class-room communication should be envisaged . |
| 7 | This psychology naturally lingered on into the supposedly liberal atmosphere of NEP in the form of the utopian hope that obligations imposed ‘ from the Centre ’ , as the peasants put it , could be avoided , whilst retaining economic rights . |
| 8 | There 's also Bob 's ‘ Songs Of Freedom ’ , a force worldwide , but out of fashion in Jamaica , a country that has moved on to the more bodily delights of raggamuffin . |
| 9 | The couple have now moved on to the more complicated use of silks , and subjects have varied from masterpieces such as The Old Mill and The Haywain to a girl skating on a lake and a Victorian winter scene . |
| 10 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 11 | It is when you get on to the more high tech aspects of English Hops ' work that small and muted alarm bells begin to ring . |
| 12 | Oh now we get on to the really difficult stuff . |
| 13 | Before moving on to the more advanced aspects of wave riding let us consider what should happen in the first attempts . |
| 14 | We might feel tempted to say that Wittgenstein 's account may be true of sensations ; but that there is no such thing as a sensation of blue , and so there is no reason why a private linguist could not start by naming the way things look to him before moving on to the more difficult talk of the way things actually are . |
| 15 | Once you can carve gybe and water start with ease , you can move on to the more advanced funboard skills . |
| 16 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 17 | The evidence from elsewhere in America and Britain is that exhibitors increasingly took the masses for granted and were always investing in better and better cinemas so as to hang on to the more respectable lower middle-class audience . |
| 18 | Erm I think it would be nice if the grammar were checked from , we promised to give high priority in responding , surely we can give priority to responding , and as a small point , I was gon na go on about the most important road which of course is Breadfield Street |
| 19 | Young Rawlins went on to the most arduous part of the game — attempting to memorise the host of gifts on a conveyor belt , ranging from a cuddly toy to a microwave . |
| 20 | Having got his attention-grabbers out of the way , Mr Beckman went on to the more serious stuff . |
| 21 | Radulfus maintained his judicial calm , and the earl 's broad brow was suave and benign , though there was no guessing what went on in the highly intelligent mind behind it ; but Prior Robert and Sub-Prior Herluin sat very erect , stiff in the spine and with long , refined faces sharpened into steel , studiously not looking straight at each other , but maintaining each a bright gaze on distance , and the appearance of considering with magisterial detachment the situation that confronted them . |
| 22 | The glass was a deep blue colour , opaque , so the outside world could see nothing of what went on inside the heavily guarded building . |
| 23 | The involuntary expansions and contractions have the consequence that to hold on to the most aware response it may be a practical necessity to numb oneself to a local awareness which distracts from it . |
| 24 | That is because the offspring of the traditional older working class have gone on to the more pleasant and remunerative employments , the employments that are also called work . |
| 25 | Following the report of its working group , recommendations concerning this were passed on to the newly appointed UKCC on its inception in July 1983 . |
| 26 | As one of the parents in the interviews described later says , ‘ When they say , you 're the experts , parents are experts , what they really mean is — you get on with that little bit over there , and we 'll get on with the really important stuff over here . ’ |
| 27 | Thankfully the old saw that ‘ you ca n't call yourselves world champions until you 've beaten the Boks ’ has been laid to rest and now , politics allowing , the South African game can get on with the long overdue task of putting its own house — in particular its over-powerful domestic unions — in order . |
| 28 | The exhibition moves on to the recently refurbished Guggenheim Museum in New York on 9 September . |
| 29 | Discussions of film and television genre habitually nod towards the broad stylistic categories fundamental to literary aesthetics since Aristotle — epic , lyric , drama , comedy , tragedy — and quickly move on to the more immediately recognizable categories under which industry products are branded and sold — horror , western , musical , soap opera , crime series . |
| 30 | That is because it feeds on to the most congested part of the York inner ring road which is the er Gillygate erm Lord Mayor 's Walk section . |