Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they passed through the town of Isserre , spots of rain spat on to the windscreen . |
| 2 | They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted . |
| 3 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
| 4 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 5 | Innocently replying ‘ yes ’ , he found himself propelled on to the committee and later into the vice-chairmanship . |
| 6 | Two square escutcheon plates , each incised with a cross , have been riveted on to the surface above and below the keyhole . |
| 7 | Also , the land which stretches back to Rockhill Farm from Swingswang on the opposite side of that road is all part and parcel of the County Council smallholdings , and only two fields away they sold off a piece of land a few years ago which has now been developed on to the frontage of the Banbury Road , which is in fact the Cromwell Business Park . |
| 8 | At one stage she somehow got on to the subject of coal and said she simply did not believe it came from wood . |
| 9 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 10 | We somehow got on to the subject of detective stories , for it had been with some surprise that I learnt at the Old Parsonage meeting that at one time he had read them with avidity . |
| 11 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 12 | It was perfectly possible to see how Billy could have vaulted the fence , got on to the kitchen roof via one of the barrels and from there on to the main roof and all the connecting ones down to Sunil 's house . |
| 13 | I paced the house for an hour or so and then got on to the council office . |
| 14 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 15 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 16 | Cecilia got on to the platform . |
| 17 | Somehow we then got on to the theme of French poetry , and Eliot expressed surprise at one of Herbert Read 's recent pronouncements on Laforgue and another nineteenth-century poet I can not recall and about whom at the time I knew too little to be able to arrive at an opinion . |
| 18 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 19 | ‘ I got on to the hospital and then the local police lab and said I was from her insurance company and we operated a no pay clause if drink-driving was involved . ’ |
| 20 | He knew the man would be magnificent when he got on to the stage that night . |
| 21 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 22 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 23 | She went , and I got on with the life of Ellen Parkin , about to emerge from her chrysalis , to spread her wings as Eleanor Darcy . |
| 24 | ‘ I got on with the work , tried very hard to stay jovial , and kept a smiling face . |
| 25 | Deliberately she pushed the letter to the bottom of the pile , to save it for later while she got on with the work which awaited . |
| 26 | Morley 's subjects were delightful , talented young people , clearly , who got on with the job and threatened no one . |
| 27 | As it is , he has gone down as a highly skilled bowler who , because he lacked the flamboyance of some of his colleagues , attracted less attention than many of them ; but who consistently , almost stealthily , got on with the job of collecting three or four wickets in innings after innings after innings . |
| 28 | ‘ So he had a few puffs before he grabbed her round the neck and got on with the job … ’ |
| 29 | But fortunately his present associates in the adult world , Biddy and Knacker Bean and Sergeant Potter , did not waste time questioning one 's motives like old Sylvester ; they just got on with the job in hand . |
| 30 | In the end , of course , we all pulled our socks up and got on with the job . |