Example sentences of "[coord] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 said : ‘ Our main objective is to ensure we retain the business achieved by ICI when it is transferred on to Courtaulds Aerospace sites or on to a Courtaulds Aerospace product .
2 Is muck disposed of on a heap at the bottom of a field , or on to a muck trailer in the yard ?
3 It is all too common for teachers to feel so insecure in taking a class into the countryside or on to a farm that they prefer to avoid such excursions .
4 For example , a basalt flow which is moving over a dry , sandy surface is quite well-behaved and peaceful , but if the same flow were to advance on to an area of wet , boggy ground , or on to a snow-field , the water trapped beneath the lava may be heated up and turned into high-pressure steam .
5 Be prepared to have a chat , offer a cup of tea or biscuit or to help people to the toilet or on to a commode .
6 There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin .
7 Or on to the point of someone 's sword ! ’
8 Bring the water to a simmer and put the platter of fish into the steamer or on to the rack .
9 Now , if it was impossible for any reason for the next of kin , the oldest brother to do it , then it would go down to the second or on down the line , whoever was the nearest to become the kinsman redeemer .
10 From Cardiff the route snakes up through the valleys south of Caerphilly , over the Ebbw River , through the Ebbw Forest and on via the mining town of Risca to Pontypool .
11 The nearest approach , perhaps , is the long belt of deltas extending today , from the Ganges in eastern India , via the Brahmaputra , the Irrawaddy and the Sittang , to the rivers of the Gulf of Siam and on via the Mekong to the Sang-koi and Si-kiang rivers of southern China .
12 She stamped past me and on down the corridor .
13 As he moved away past the fifteen hundredweight and on down the line , his receding words of assurance were interrupted by warning shouts .
14 They go on and on about the nails . ’
15 The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road .
16 Even when , halfway through the morning he broke out with , ‘ Well , there 's no need for you to keep on and on about the table , ’ I did not point out that I had said nothing , that it was he who was ‘ going on and on about it ’ inside himself .
17 She was anxious at the long absence of her visitor , and at the voices , her mother 's voice in particular , sounding on and on through the afternoon .
18 Away from the prying eyes of the world , the newlyweds sailed the Aegean and Ionian Seas and on through the Suez Canal .
19 Only when it has been chewed up almost to a liquid can the food pass through the rumen , and on through the gut .
20 Narrowing my eyes against the Atlantic glitter I could see the line of a path that climbed from the bay and on over the headland to the west .
21 With UN approval MacArthur pursued them across the parallel and on towards the Yalu River which marked the border with Communist China .
22 An invisible line ran past the corner , left at the second gas-lamp , straight as truth across the grass beside the upright sleepers that lined the railway track , and on towards the enemy territory of the Baltic Fleet .
23 I made my way down into the tube station and on towards the Circle Line .
24 The best way to see the City is from the canals and we have included a ‘ Canal Bus ’ Pass , valid for the whole day around the famous canals ; this pass allows you to get off and on at a selection of stops for you to explore the city .
25 Nicandra took the path leading away from pleasure-garden policies , through heavy laurels and on into a grove of hazels patched with sunlight .
26 The muffled men with the lanterns lighted their way into the house up a vast perron , where once guests had sat in the sun before luncheon , and on into the hall , music belching into its emptiness .
27 The movie loop of this sequence showed a reducing volume of fluid in the stomach when compared with Figure 1A and alos , as in Figure 1B ‘ swirls ’ of activity are apparent , especially in the fundic region , denoting considerable movement of fluid and eddy currents as the contents are propelled towards the pylorus and on into the duodenum .
28 Trucks would come hurtling down the hill , their brakes would fail , and they 'd plough right through the wall and on into the field beyond .
29 He nattered his way from university , through Chicago jazz combos and on into the birth of punk rock as the UK Subs never knew it .
30 All the causes of change are presumed , in Lyell 's system , to persist undiminished into the present , the human period , and on into the future .
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