Example sentences of "[verb] on [coord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end he settled for a rather Egyptian standing pose with both their faces front on and the bodies half turned away . |
| 2 | Certainly give them , yeah and I said Joan will tell you not only does her but the table that he sits on and the wall around it , |
| 3 | He might have pressed on but the sight of a group of hassling crows on a chalk slope below attracted him . |
| 4 | Time marches on and the tension rises . |
| 5 | As the pattern of industrial life goes on and the health of the nation enables people to live longer , the number of retired people will increase and new , attractive facilities will have to be made for them in Britain , or they will be lured away to live on the continent of Europe and spend their money there . |
| 6 | But he goes on , he goes on and the body of his evidence my Lord is to speculate as to what he would have done and what Mr should have done in the circumstances of this er case and reference is made to the professional conduct guide in paragraph three two . |
| 7 | The business was able to carry on but the flat he sometimes used was uninhabitable ; he came up to London only on Tuesday nights and " camped out " for the fire-watching while for the rest of the time he commuted between London and Surrey . |
| 8 | But if you were to carry on and the woman was screaming no no no no get off get off get off , as far as I 'm concerned that 's rape . |
| 9 | We 've only rumours to go on but the sums he 's paid out are astronomical . ’ |
| 10 | Now I have finally begun , he wrote , I have only to go on and the end will arrive . |
| 11 | His thoughts sway constantly between the desire to go on and the desire to settle down for a relaxed evening with a book in the secure knowledge that he wo n't have to go on . |
| 12 | It is important that you start as you mean to go on and the horse must understand what is expected of him . |
| 13 | After four years , Father Burgon moved on and the parish was given into the care of the Salvation Fathers . |
| 14 | It swam straight into my chest and bowled me over , thank God it swam on but the adrenalin was flowing so all I could think about was what sort of picture I 'd got . |
| 15 | If ink was then rolled on and the plate washed , the ink remained only in the tiny ‘ bitten ’ spaces , giving the finely granulated appearance of the finished aquatint already referred to . |
| 16 | Essentially the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . |
| 17 | The Court of Appeal were in error in stating [ 1991 ] 2 H.K.L.R. 215 , 218 , that ‘ the profit-making activity was carried on and the services , being the provision of the rights , were rendered outside Hong Kong . ’ |
| 18 | Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events . |
| 19 | As the brakes came on and the flurry of activity again took in more passengers and luggage the old lady stood up and moved to the door . |
| 20 | The internal light came on and the radio turned itself on and blasted out heavy rock music at full volume . |
| 21 | track , because it it , no other transport business er has er does has to have a business , which op owns both the track it 's operating on and the operating er facilities themselves , so the we 're not doing anything new here , what we are actually doing , and incidentally the German government and other governments are going down the same route now because it 's not true to say that others are n't privatizing , what we 're doing is saying that we are having a separate track authority , and there are a variety of reasons for that , er but the an and that means actually less investment by the franchisee himself , but he will have control over the th the track operations , because he will have a contract , with Rail Track , to deliver certain services , and if Rail Track does n't deliver them then he 's able to claim penalties so |
| 22 | There was two bunches of keys both the same as each other with the house keys on and the keys to this place . |
| 23 | She remembered the dozens and dozens of exercise books with two or three pages written on and the rest left virgin , the textbooks defaced by doodles , the waste . |
| 24 | The travellers have moved on and the tourists are back . |
| 25 | Whatever , the cops eventually moved on and the Englishman and I were spared the task of explaining what such an unlikely pair of lads as ourselves were doing with such a gleaming trophy . |
| 26 | At the start of this climb we 'd been uncomfortably hot in the sunshine , but by the end the sun had moved on and the wind had got up . |
| 27 | The film lights were turned on and the crowd briefed about their imminent deaths in the ruckled black velvet . |
| 28 | They exist only whilst the computer is turned on and the word-processing program is active . |
| 29 | Each instruction is encoded in such a way that it can be held in a store location , so that the store contains both the data being operated on and the program of instructions specifying the operations to be performed . |
| 30 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |