Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 3 | She got on with Victoria like a house on fire ; as for Mrs Funnell , she even chipped that old lady . |
| 4 | And how pathetically ironic that a bunch of Americans , who normally carp on about freedom of speech and the First Amendment , resort to crushing records which contain perfectly innocent torch songs when they defend to the hilt the right of misogynist swine like 2 Live Crew to peddle their filth with impunity . |
| 5 | Knitwear suits every mood with a wealth of texture , colour and pattern , layered on with denim in every shape and form — skirts , dresses , jeans and jackets . |
| 6 | This could be relied on to throw up ‘ bad ’ as well as ‘ good ’ factors . |
| 7 | They could n't be relied on to cope with the situation and our safety at the same time . |
| 8 | The Doctor , the guy with the blue box , could normally be relied on to deal with problems of this magnitude , but on this occasion he had apparently failed to understand that Pool was made of human brains and was in any case crazy . |
| 9 | One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 . |
| 10 | Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing . |
| 11 | IMPACT : An arrow shows where the stricken Jumbo plunged on to flats in the complex visited by a shocked Queen Beatrix ( inset ) yesterday |
| 12 | The search now goes on for cancers over a wider area . |
| 13 | The Pope goes on to Mauritius on Saturday . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman goes on about conspiracies against the working class , but I gather that in his constituency the working class conspired against him . |
| 15 | Quiz of couple goes on over murder of OAP |
| 16 | Mhm , so there 's quite a bit of joking goes on between sections about this and . |
| 17 | Well erm there 's a lot of there 's a lot of abuse that goes on between kids of similar ages , often in schools , and we call it things like bullying . |
| 18 | The road goes on amid scenery of increasing charm along the bonny banks of the loch , which at its head is succeeded by the emerald pastures and rich woodlands of Strath More . |
| 19 | The lovely scenery continues as the walk travels along woodland paths to reach the little lake of Tarn Hows and goes on past Elterwater to Dungeon Ghyll . |
| 20 | ( This work goes on in parallel with in vivo studies . ) |
| 21 | Clearly , much research goes on in institutions of higher education . |
| 22 | With currently available equipment we are not able to discover what goes on in detail in the brain when someone is speaking , though we can make guesses based on evidence such as speech errors ( ‘ slips of the tongue ’ ) and the effects on speech production of different sorts of brain damage . |
| 23 | The show goes on in Malvern until Sunday afternoon . |
| 24 | Work by Peter Collett , an Oxford academic , has shown clearly that what goes on in front of the telly is , in practice , virtually anything . |
| 25 | That er goes on in relation to er criminal matters again and er er paragraph three hundred and thi , thirty three forty one er it picks up the subject of expert testament , namely er science , art , trade , technical terms , handwriting , foreign law er the ensuing pages in fact deal with that and then at paragraph thirty two fifty one er in the er section of subjects which experts may not testify on . |
| 26 | ‘ A lot of hacking goes on inside companies by employees trying to find easier ways of doing their jobs . |
| 27 | The account goes on from year to year , for as long as you want . |
| 28 | One view is that , even though the current physical self will perish , the spirit goes on from life to life ; if this is the case , one of the things that spirit has to learn is how to deal with all areas of negativity. 1 believe that , by the time the spirit enters the body , it has already chosen the lessons it wishes to learn and the difficulties it wishes to overcome during that lifetime . |
| 29 | Now that the state itself is disintegrating around us , while folk culture goes on from strength to strength , they need to be re-stated ( ibid : 95 ) . |
| 30 | Valine 172 and the disulphide bridge residues 110 and 174 contribute to the hydrophobic core of domain 2 , after which the path of the main chain is locked to continue on into solution by Pro 175 . |