Example sentences of "[coord] [vb pp] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't have attacked architects or gone on about ecology . |
| 2 | One year I walked from Newby Head by Cam High Road to Hawes on a wonderful late spring day and carried on to Hardraw to watch my local band , Settle and Giggleswick Brass Band , take first prize from amongst a great deal of strong opposition . |
| 3 | He was heavily into drugs by the time he left school and carried on at Cambridge . ’ |
| 4 | I gave myself a pat on the back though and carried on through Cross Rift into Selenite Passage where the rock sparkles with the glassy selenite running through the walls . |
| 5 | Mr Lee recognises the 752-member assembly for what it is — an anachronism instinctively opposed to the reforms begun three years ago by the late President Chiang Ching-kuo ( a son of Chiang Kai-shek ) and carried on by Mr Lee . |
| 6 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 7 | The team were superbly prepared and the younger players — many of whom were recruited and brought on by Cottam — made further progress . |
| 8 | Many Egyptian and Palestinian refugees had passed through the refugee reception camps by the first week of September and gone on to Egypt , to Palestinian settlements in Jordan , and elsewhere . |
| 9 | On Feb. 6 the Cabinet approved and sent on to parliament a package of measures to tighten German export controls . |
| 10 | As for the letters to the museum itself and the director , Feigen says that they were apparently intercepted and sent on to Hildenbrand : ‘ When we contacted the museum to ask why payment had not been forthcoming , they had never heard of us ’ . |
| 11 | The message , which had originated in Charleroi just thirty-two miles away , had first been sent to Marshal Blücher at Namur , then copied and sent on to Brussels , a total journey of seventy miles . |
| 12 | They left Stratford behind , and headed on towards Warwick . |
| 13 | Each leaf section will produce a small plant , which should be potted up initially into a 2–3in pot , and potted on as growth dictates . |