Example sentences of "[verb] on [subord] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that the d.c. supply may remain on when the receiver is turned off at its own switch ( usually ganged to the Volume control ) is a worry . |
| 2 | Both women went to a ‘ smoking cessation course ’ the company laid on before the policy went on stream . |
| 3 | Lotions or creams smoothed on while the skin is still damp will seal in extra moisture . |
| 4 | She was roughly shaken , but clung on until the man said : |
| 5 | The troops crack on as the storm sets in over So Kon Po . |
| 6 | In the circuit of Fig. 6.14(a) , for example , linear acceleration and deceleration profiles are produced by integrating a signal which turns on when the motor is to accelerate and turns off when deceleration in required . |
| 7 | This account of how aircraft accident investigations are conducted , or should be conducted , in the field is necessarily only a brief outline of what can take place and does not include much of the work that goes on when the wreckage is examined in detail in a hangar , or in the case of AIB at their substantial facility at Farnborough . |
| 8 | The steepening of the lee slope by accumulation at the top goes on until the angle of rest of the material is exceeded ( AB on Fig. 11.6c ) , when shearing takes place along a slightly less steep surface ( CD on Fig. 11.6c ) . |
| 9 | For the locals life goes on until the race approaches … over 100 police are on duty … they 've managed to close the city centre for the leaders but for the tailenders there 's a real old jam … |
| 10 | ( " The war brides among us must labour on till the boys come home " . ) " |
| 11 | Premier John Major is prepared to lead an unprecedented series of bruising encounters at Number 10 to allow warring departments to agree on where the Treasury axe will fall . |
| 12 | The staff will stay on until the parents arrive to pick up the children . |
| 13 | When we write the stories of people we know , we often fall into the trap of identifying too strongly with our subject and not giving the reader enough to go on because the material is too familiar to us . |
| 14 | The most piddling aspects of my embodiment furnished me with prophecy : hanging on whether the flap of gum skin comes away , then … the leaf will fall or not fall , I will die or be immortal , the sun will rise or not . |
| 15 | It 's only a matter of hanging on until the Jacobites are out of the way . ’ |
| 16 | The gossip was that the farmer who owned the land was merely hanging on till the price came up to his requirements , then some builder would carve out of the hillside a super executive-type estate , with views for fifteen miles and mortgages for fifty years . |
| 17 | One of the WRAC Weapons Instructors looks on as the weapons are handed in at the armoury . |
| 18 | Following the accession of George I , he seconded a motion of 12 April 1717 that English trade to the Baltic could not be carried on unless the king of Sweden was brought to reason , and during the South Sea crisis he advocated strong measures against the directors . |
| 19 | A partnership practice that operated from two offices ceased to be carried on when the partnership was dissolved and the two main equity partners continued as sole practitioners from their respective offices . |
| 20 | This is done by adding starch to the material and this gives the soil bacteria something to feed on when the plastic is buried in the rubbish tip . |
| 21 | In ‘ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep ’ however , the androids will carry on after the humans have died . |
| 22 | How can I carry on when the bulb in the overhead projector has blown ? |
| 23 | With no immediate compromise in sight , Mr Redwood refused to speculate on when the directive will come into force . |
| 24 | His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him . |
| 25 | Without the INKEY(O) command at the end of the program line , print echo would not be turned on until the program attempted to read from the keyboard or the program terminated and BBCBASIC(Z80) returned to the immediate mode . |
| 26 | These special deposits are frozen , and can not be drawn on until the authorities choose to release them . |
| 27 | The car went racing on while the friends tried to tidy up the mess . |
| 28 | but um I 'm a great believer that it 's rather nice to have that going on while the event is going on you know you sit and munch a corned beef butty as you dribble your coffee down the front of your shirt |
| 29 | A long drawn-out sound would still be going on when the echo returned , and , even if partially muffled by send/receive muscles , would get in the way of detecting the echo . |
| 30 | It does n't matter if the original chirp is still going on when the echo returns . |