Example sentences of "[adv] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert Montague ( right ) hit a winning streak in the 1980s — and it 's carrying right on into the 1990s . |
| 2 | There is no way out of the Upper Kirk other than scrambling to the left or right on to the higher ground . |
| 3 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
| 4 | Karelius ' mare , after a whole day on her feet , stumbled gamely on across the freezing moorland towards Lake Satschen , and escape to the south . |
| 5 | I should also say that these are already selling like the proverbial hot cakes , so maybe I should move swiftly on to the ME-10 … |
| 6 | She handed over a neatly wrapped ‘ mixed bunch ’ to one customer , with a chatty , ‘ Here you are , love , ’ and moved swiftly on to the next . |
| 7 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 8 | However , as soon as it begins to accelerate smoothly , that movement is no longer necessary , and the control should be moved to get the glider balanced nicely on to the main wheel . |
| 9 | She was packed off to bed by midnight but Mrs Burrows often worked patiently on till the early hours of the morning . |
| 10 | A smaller patch of lesser quality vines extends southwards on to the north-east-facing slopes of Mont Aimé . |
| 11 | The rotary input gain control can be set to the optimum level so that the overload light flashes momentarily on for the loudest peaks of signal . |
| 12 | ‘ If something was a loss , he was n't really concerned with that ; somebody else could clear that up — he was already on to the next thing . |
| 13 | She threw herself backwards on to the wooden desk , and swung her legs high above her . |
| 14 | Although the two forms are almost certainly not interchangeable in JC , having different functions , both are used for past actions and map broadly on to the British English simple past . |
| 15 | So , given the current limitations on my mobility , I apply a variation of the same technique , and convey myself , travelling from one silvery globule to another , and thus on to the nearest windowpane . |
| 16 | He obliged by hitting a vast drive about fifty yards beyond Harley 's , who then got his second shot just on to the front edge of the green and about forty feet from the flag . |
| 17 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 18 | I had paid my rent early on with the last inelastic cheque I 'd written , had n't paid my Poll Tax , had tried to find bar work but been unsuccessful , and was borrowing off Norris , Gav and a few other pals to buy food , which comprised mostly bread and beans and the odd black pudding supper , plus a cider or two when I could be persuaded to squander my meagre resources on contributing to the funds required for a raid on the local off-licence . |
| 19 | All readers probably assimilate Gollum early on to the now-familiar image of a ‘ drug-addict ’ , craving desperately for a ‘ fix ’ even though he knows it will kill him . |
| 20 | But the two strikers looked unable to make an impact early on against the big Harefield back four , and it was Harefield who appeared most dangerous in the opening period , putting Town keeper , Mickey Cummings under a lot of pressure . |
| 21 | Early on in the present government 's administration a representative of Fabius warned that if research was to get the money it required , other ministries would suffer . |
| 22 | Leopold realised very early on in the first visit that their money would not be made by giving public performances , |
| 23 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 24 | Ken 's equally eccentric behaviour towards her became evident early on in the out-of-town try-outs in Brighton , Liverpool and Oxford . |
| 25 | If one may accept the equivalence of at least the concepts underlying the terms and on the one hand and and on the other , there is thus some solid evidence , in addition to the line of reasoning advanced above , to suggest that the concept of a division between " the interior " and " the exterior " existed at least from fairly early on in the sixteenth century ; and it is not unreasonable to suppose that the terms haric and dahil are not anachronistic in respect of the Kanunname . |
| 26 | Well apparently that was n't the end of the garden you see cos that came across like this and when you went through a gap in the hedge about another twenty yards further on in the far distance it seemed there was the hut . |
| 27 | Further on in the above entry he admits he can only be less than himself in company . |
| 28 | But we should be further on in the long march from paternalism . |
| 29 | Yellow gorse blossomed further on in the open , a cheerful show of colour . |
| 30 | The village contained little more than cottages , but the spirit of the day had been caught … and two or three of the best of them were smartened up with a white curtain and ‘ lodgings to let ’ — and further on in the little green court of an old farm house , two females in elegant white were actually to be seen with their books and camp-stools — and in turning the corner of the baker 's shop , the sound of a harp might be heard through the upper casement . |