Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 3 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 4 | ‘ You do not know what goes on at this school , ’ said Rafiq . |
| 5 | We 're supposed to know what goes on in this country , and the PM 's health is a national asset , so … |
| 6 | ‘ I ought to have found this out before , especially as I usually know everything that goes on in this village , but they 've managed to keep it secret . |
| 7 | Also , the local MP has taken it upon himself to look personally into what goes on in this prison . ’ |
| 8 | This centre looks like a huge barracks in the hills and no one knows what goes on in this place . |
| 9 | I know he talks to you about what goes on in this office , but I get a feedback about you . ’ |
| 10 | We can therefore interpret our findings as evidence that what the community agrees on in this case is a pattern of stable differentiation over two generations between male and female usage . |
| 11 | ‘ I applaud Myra 's loyalty , but it 's stupid to carry on with this charade of twins . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ And try to carry on with this truce ? ’ |
| 13 | Am I made to go on with this relationship . |
| 14 | I 'm sorry to go on about this BBC thing but it does seem important to me . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It 's hardly fair I should be required to go on in this way . |
| 16 | The normal way of classifying a child is by his Or her father 's profession , and this is essentially all we have to go on in this case . |
| 17 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 18 | I refuse to sit on in this house and be treated like Christopher Robin by her . ’ |
| 19 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 20 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 21 | And , of course , the scientific approach through general laws and formulae has nothing to work on in this sort of context . |
| 22 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 23 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 24 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 25 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 26 | The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions . |
| 27 | could n't tell you but er these cars turned up erm , there were n't no hearse and off they went and er course when I went up the garden to get some washing in Claire came up and er anyway she said er about Mr and I said well I assume it was him , I saw Mrs and she starts on about this dog barking out in the garden again ! |
| 28 | The idea of using this matter-of-fact item as a matter of fashion has been slow to catch on in this country . |
| 29 | Many of the documents signed at Halling bear the signatures of these men and among these we find Phillip de Poucnessh now known as Punish Hill ; Richard le Veel , Veles of Snodland ; John le Lad now Lads Farm ; John de Holoweye , Holoway Court Snodland ; and another name that lives on to this day is Bavens Bank , which probably derives its name from Adam de Bavent . |
| 30 | It then bores on in this vein until our hero — Bjorn Borg , unmistakably — has won Weembledon for the fifth time consecutively . |