Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.

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1 I got on with Heather 's bath and feed .
2 For a couple of days I got on with life 's rich pageant without thinking any more of Jo or her bloody credit cards .
3 A REGRETFUL telephone call from the bank on a September morning last year announced the end of Sparks an hour after I was told that a crane had fallen on to Wren 's St James , Garlickhythe ; it was a day of numbing disaster .
4 Everyone goes on about Cher 's dresses , showing her navel .
5 Er for the Conservative group er we agreed with our colleagues from the other side er the need to install by very close integration on public transport with anything that goes on at Heathrow er I was
6 What goes on in Ludo 's brain ?
7 You may have got quite friendly now , but she does n't necessarily know all that goes on in Robert 's mind . ’
8 And second because she knows what goes on in Audrey 's seemingly empty head .
9 Here they are — their words , their faces , but what , oh what , goes on behind people 's skulls ?
10 At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans .
11 Tears brimmed on to Maggie 's cheeks and she brushed them away hurriedly .
12 I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance .
13 A light seems to go on in Lucker 's head .
14 They collided with the corridor wall , Cardiff still hanging on to Rohmer 's wrist .
15 Recovering his balance , Tal hopped on to Tabitha 's leg .
16 Pollitt thundered on about Italy 's invasion of Abyssinia which he and his party roundly condemned .
17 A 45 year old man is reported on with Whipple 's disease who presented with weight loss , lethargy , and ascites .
18 She moved on to Puddephat 's wife .
19 Dissuading some of the smallest walkers from clinging to our pedals , we moved on from Ana 's Cross , to the road down Chimney Bank back to Rosedale Abbey .
20 It 's just er a small section of foot of a footnote which gives an account of the history of the clause in er of the section in the er Police Act of nineteen sixty four with which we are dealing and of course Your Lordships will be well aware that we moved on from Section er from the Sections of the Police Act , we 're not dealing with them at all , we 're dealing with what has happened to those Clauses since and I thought perhaps Your Lordship might Your Lordships might be interested in the sort of guidance which is made available th so , so fortunately to us and so that we can have our minds very clearly focused upon the issues .
21 Hunt on for Mersey 's top businesswoman
22 ‘ I 'll go , ’ sobbed Perdita , and , leaping on to Hermia 's back , she clattered off down the drive .
23 He took his time ; first cutting the cigar , then heating its tip with a succession of matches that he carelessly and provocatively dropped on to Wavebreaker 's scrubbed deck .
24 A quantum leap on from PE 's brilliant debut , ‘ Nation Of Millions ’ is a perpetual catherine wheel of militant ideas , brain scrambling noises , language loops and old fashioned hooks .
25 This Marco Polo spirit lives on in Liberty 's buyers to this day .
26 Right , erm so we 'll er just start with a quick erm er look round what people have decided on for investment er in individual cases .
27 Christian joy is found when we hold on to God 's hand and when we learn that fabulous certainty with which we can step out into the uncertainties of the coming day .
28 Then Little Billy would slip into his dressing gown and climb on to Swan 's back and off they would go .
29 A grim twist came on to Taggy 's lips .
30 QPR 's right back Bardsley came on for Arsenal 's Lee Dixon at the start of the second half , but lasted only 19 minutes before limping off .
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