Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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1 | Grinning with surprise as if he had stumbled on to the This is Your Life set , his hand was pumped by Bill Wyman ( the Rolling Stone vote ) , Roland Butcher ( the cricketing vote ) , Gordon Banks ( the goalkeeping vote ) , Elaine Paige ( the musical vote ) , Patrick Moore ( the moon vote ) , Andrew Lloyd Webber ( the seriously rich vote ) and dozens more . |
2 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
3 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
4 | Yes , I c I was fortunate to be able to carry on at the same place . |
5 | School students will stay on in the few settlements that will be left and in schools in Cuba , West Africa and other countries . |
6 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
7 | If they are to be more than mere training , then a process of informed reflection has to go on at the same time . |
8 | There is slightly more to go on with the latter however , and one seems justified in presuming the work of at least two men . |
9 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
10 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
11 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
12 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
13 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
14 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
15 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
16 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
17 | For this purpose , I propose first to discuss the several bloom shapes and forms , then the growth and habit forms and variations , and then progressively to pass on to the many breed and race classifications . |
18 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
19 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
20 | He just came on in the same purposeful manner and Maggie backed away , a little alarmed and suddenly remembering why she was here . |
21 | Even if we stopped using all CFCs today , depletion of the ozone layer — the earth 's barrier against cancer-causing ultra violet radiation — would carry on at the same rate for the next 50 years . |
22 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
23 | But what commits the muscle to this final pathway and what ensures that all the necessary genes are turned on at the same time ? |
24 | Concentration has nothing to do with gritting your teeth and braving it out ; it 's the secret of being more and more relaxed and aware of everything that is going on at the same time . |
25 | One of the most productive nurseries in the world , the Yorkshire League , has become almost barren and the time has come to pluck from another , rich in blossoms — Shivaji Park , Bombay , where you can stand on the roof-top of the small pavilion and watch 15 games going on at the same time . |
26 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
27 | And , going on in the same vein before Fabia could gently state that she would n't dream of going to Czechoslovakia without her , ‘ It 's about a four-hour crossing so you 'll have time for some shut-eye and a rest before … ’ |
28 | The society-s proposal to convert the church into dwellings followed on from the same sponsor 's conversion of a similar local and redundant Anglican church , St James 's , Knatchbull Road , Stockwell Park . |
29 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
30 | Spacing of the bricks is marked on to the former on the inner and outer circumference , always starting form the centre brick so that it 's exactly symmetrical . |