Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords . |
| 2 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 3 | They tried bringing out political prisoners after rebellions in Britain , they tried kidnapping new recruits , and they tried legislating to keep up the number of white men that planters must employ , but white men still left for England or went on to new parts of the Americas rather than compete against slave labour . |
| 4 | Keeping clear of the wharves where machinery roared and clanked as cargoes were being discharged from or loaded on to rust-streaked ships with flaking paint , Nathan tied Seawitch to the rickety wooden pontoon reserved for yachts in transit . |
| 5 | A route not to take unless you know no fear , is to walk straight up the sweeping southern flanks of the hill , which will leave you giddy and hanging on to craggy , near-vertical terrain with your teeth . |
| 6 | The Ego revels in guilt , since it is a way of clinging to the past , and hanging on to old payoffs . |
| 7 | Just like throwing out old-fashioned clothes and hanging on to old favourites , we decide to stop using those actions that did n't get us what we wanted and to continue to use those that did . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | These are then collected , distilled and passed on to social workers and others in basic texts , training manuals , child abuse courses and conferences ( cf Moore , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | After two hours of debate the synod voted overwhelmingly to receive the report and moved on to detailed discussion of the legislation . |
| 12 | For example , what if Mr Heath had won the February 1974 general election , as he nearly did , and carried on as Prime Minister ? |
| 13 | These were low-paid , largely female , occupations mainly unmechanized and carried on in small workshops . |
| 14 | Mr Clarke is expected to propose substantial changes in its composition and working methods to overcome SNP claims that the convention is Labour-dominated and bent on excluding nationalist arguments for independence . |
| 15 | Robert was a replacement in the Currie Cup final and came on for young Johan Roux in the second half . |
| 16 | Sales manager Graham Cooper says : ‘ The introduction of video printing techniques means that images can now be ‘ grabbed ’ and transferred on to other materials such as T-shirts , mugs , key-rings and baseball hats . |
| 17 | Now they wear little except shorts and light rubber-soled pumps and hold on to vertical cliff walls like flies with a combination of sticky powder on their fingers , the faith of an Indian fakir , and tons of hardware in the shape of bolts , runners and slings hammered into the rocks . |
| 18 | After just a minute or so , especially if we were handling metal , we would need to stop and huff on to frozen fingers , standing around with pained expressions while circulation returned . |
| 19 | The next day the RUC tried to block a 4,000 strong Paisleyite protest march from the centre of Belfast , but the marchers broke through and rampaged through the centre of the city breaking shop windows , stoning the Catholic-owned International Hotel and going on to Sandy Row where they tried to burn down a bookie 's shop which employed Catholics . |
| 20 | The secret of success is to use your Adult ( see Ego-states on page 56 and hang on to assertive behaviour ( see Assertiveness on page 8 and Conflict on page 35 ) . |
| 21 | It can become linked with the sexual instincts , and turned on to external , loved objects . |
| 22 | He coaxed the Citation through the downwind leg and turned on to final runway heading , some five miles out from the airport . |
| 23 | You will also experience playing as a member of a team in various sports , and how , by co-operating and getting on with other people , you can make a team more successful . |
| 24 | If the entry is n't changed to the consumer 's satisfaction , the bureau has to add to the file ( and pass on to future inquirers ) the consumer 's own version of the story . |
| 25 | To pursue one aim , such as employment , in isolation from the others , such as the ability to travel to and from work and get on with other people , is ineffective . |
| 26 | ‘ Let's stop batting one another around the head and get on with good government , ’ he said . |
| 27 | By doing this its vitality is not completely stopped , it somehow goes on flowing , and the plant , as it were , simply gulps a little , and gets on with expanding . |
| 28 | The development is sited three miles from Weston town centre and backs on to green belt land . |
| 29 | It could have saved him this time , but the policeman , half nerved up for aggression , caught him fairly in the doorway and hung on with professional ease . |
| 30 | However , what is of importance and interest is the investigation of a process of translating scientific discourse and aims on to specific issues and problems in the teaching and study of politics . |