Example sentences of "pass on [prep] " in BNC.

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1 As the couple passed on down the line , George quickly approached the man .
2 They both chuckled and passed on down the road .
3 The wind parted imperturbably around the cottage and passed on up the valley .
4 She passed on up the street liking and not being detained by the people there and reached her house .
5 I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’
6 He passed on into Kent and on the return leg of the journey liberated the fugitive Hubert de Burgh [ q.v. ] from sanctuary in Devizes church , meeting boats at Aust on the Bristol channel which ferried his party back safely to Chepstow .
7 If only he had thought of recorking his wine after dégorgement , then the perfectly limpid sparkling wine he had managed to achieve for himself and , no doubt , passed on as a ‘ tip ’ to others , would have been available to everybody .
8 On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court .
9 A similar course held at the beginning of the year in Brasov , attended by sixty people including teachers , nurses and doctors , was particularly encouraging as much of the material was , in turn , passed on to other colleagues for their use .
10 Such generative practices structured my early experience , and built a constructed hierarchy of ‘ us ’ and ‘ them ’ which was set up and passed on to all initiates .
11 And so , refreshed , we passed on to Hong Kong .
12 In fact , his intense interest , an interest which he passed on to Engels and other revolutionary Marxists , is neither accidental nor peripheral : it is one indication of the difference between Marx 's thought and that of other revolutionaries , whether his predecessors or his contemporaries .
13 He passed on to an empty table .
14 And he once passed on to BitC an invitation he had received requesting him and the Princess to open the conference of a Brent Women 's Association , with a note saying , ‘ Do you think I should do it ?
15 It was the kind of tragedy that so often called for sympathy — a momentary sympathy and thrill of horror , mixed with shamefaced satisfaction that it had happened to someone else -before one passed on to less disturbing news .
16 According to the CIA report on the October 3 coup bid , when the dictator was imprisoned in his bedroom , he phoned his mistress , who passed on to loyal troops his message that the uprising could be thwarted .
17 The ‘ foolish years ’ as a Battersea Grammar school boy confirmed certain attitudes that Edward Thomas never abandoned and that he passed on to his children .
18 The secrets were probably gone , passed on to the Russians .
19 It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record .
20 Zsuzsanna Harsanyi passed on to me your letter of 29 May in which you describe your self-access course : ‘ Headache : Problems for Students of English ’ .
21 But then there is one lounge suit , passed on to me in 1931 or 1932 by Sir Edward Blair — practically brand new at the time and almost a perfect fit — which might well be appropriate for evenings in the lounge or dining room of any guest houses where I might lodge .
22 When news was brought to the hotel that the general had , ‘ passed on to that great trout loch in the sky ’ , people were genuinely saddened because the general had been a much-respected member of the community .
23 It has been given new genetic information by injecting DNA into the nucleus and this will be inherited by all the cells in the body and passed on to future generations via the germ cells .
24 Palmerston received a letter from T. L. Donaldson ( 1795–1885 ) asking to be a competitor , which Palmerston passed on to Hall .
25 A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data .
26 Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides .
27 The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person .
28 The company claims full rights over the recordings , passed on to them under an agreement signed by Lisa 's father and manager when she was 16 .
29 Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers .
30 The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation .
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