Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] a [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His first one-man show was at The Artists Gallery 1941 and he showed with Peggy Guggenheim 's Art of this Century in 1944 which led on to a one man-show at the Guggenheim in 1947 . |
| 2 | Only five survivors of Woking 's 1990-91 heroes are expected to feature tonight — Buzaglo , Mark Biggins , Trevor Baron and Wye brothers Shane and Lloyd — but they will be roared on by a 6,000 capacity crowd . |
| 3 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 4 | I 'm now looked on as a one parent family . |
| 5 | You can eat octopus dunked in ouzo in a tiny harbourside taverna before going on for a five star dinner at an international restaurant . |
| 6 | It was the Friday after the twelfth was always the gatheri Glen Ayloch gathering and is yet , and is going on for a hundred and s something year a hundred and What did I we say a hundred and twenty years since it was started I think . |
| 7 | Tonight she would far rather have been getting on with a hundred and one other things , but conscience had dictated that she must get the books finished first . |
| 8 | Well you must be getting on for a hundred , because I believe you were in the Boar War , were n't you ? |
| 9 | However , how does that come about , I mean if supposing you were a , a member of a very large group like the Catholic Church getting on to a billion people say , well you ca n't possibly identify with a billion other people you ca n't meet them in one lifetime let alone ties with them , so how does , how does narcissistic libido unify the members of vast groups like the Catholic Church ? |
| 10 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 11 | Looking at the best of chemical engineering within AEA is what the Heat Transfer and Fluid Flow Service will be focusing on in a two day conference starting on 30 November 1993 . |
| 12 | Date , time , Sao 2 , plethysmographic waveforms , skin po 2 , breathing movements , and electrocardiograms were continuously monitored and recorded on to a 128 kB digital memory card ( 86×54×3 mm ) , which was continually updated with the last 20–30 minutes of data . |
| 13 | Having got over the bad luck at the 6th we went on to a 69 . |
| 14 | Morris was at the heart of an amazing North defensive effort to hold on to a 24-17 half-time lead in the face of a strong second-half wind . |
| 15 | Parke , 17 , needed all his creativity and courage to hold on for a 15-10 , 9-15 , 15-12 , 15-14 victory just when his resources were beginning to flag . |
| 16 | The sea glared on with a million eyes , a million witnesses to our getaway . |
| 17 | Yeah they , they erm when you switch the teletext on it comes on to a hundred , that 's the thing , and , and , and on that a hundred they 'll give you er news one O two or whatever it is , you know , and so on . |
| 18 | Far Eastern reports of imminent bid terms from Hongkong & Shanghai Bank caused some early excitement in Midland Bank and , despite a denial , the stock held on to a 10 point rise to 345p . |