Example sentences of "[coord] on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |
| 2 | In talks at The Hague on Oct. 4 , chaired by Lord Carrington , agreement appeared to have been reached between Croatia and Serbia on lifting the blockade of army barracks and on including the Serbian minority in Croatia in future talks . |
| 3 | Their guides took them by a route well to the west of the main Annandale road , round the hill of Trailtrow , although they did not see it , avoiding the Brydekirk area , and on down the winding valley of a small stream running south-eastwards . |
| 4 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
| 5 | Since last year 's season of tests , one cyclone , Reva , has swept right across the atoll and on over the nearby Gambier islands . |
| 6 | He thought only of a water pipe , a narrow metal pipe that carried water away from the compound and under the wire and the high wooden fence and on towards the two-storey barracks and the kitchens and dormitories of the guards . |
| 7 | Just beyond the church is a track which leads back out of the bay and on towards the soaring cliffs of Fair Head . |
| 8 | She watched him ride on , past the lilacs , past the green door and on towards the main gate to the farmyard . |
| 9 | Since the mid 19th century , he has found , Ballinluig and the scattered rural communities of Dalguise , Caputh , Spittalfield and Dunkeld have fought flood in 1837 , 1839 , 1847 , 1868 , 1894 , and on into the present century . |
| 10 | After a while I left the family room and wandered through the great central hall and on into the far side of the house , into Perkin 's workroom . |
| 11 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |
| 12 | By midnight it 's really rocking and on into the early hours of the morning we adjourn to one of the best discos in Faliraki , Set Disco , where 18–30 Social members can get special discounts . |
| 13 | He turned left in the village of Wanswell and blasted the bike over the slight pitch and on into the twisty overgrown lanes that led to the village of Purton . |
| 14 | Sports Editors fretted and printers fumed as the match went on and on into the British night , with Milligan winning the 17th by chipping in , to go to all square . |
| 15 | Yanto walked through the front porch of the pub and on into the flagstoned lobby . |
| 16 | Off with the old and on with the new ! |
| 17 | A 17,000-foot volcano called Nevada del Ruiz , which seems to have been slumbering off and on for the past four hundred years , erupted and melted the snow and ice which covered most of its upper reaches , giving rise to an estimated seventy-five million cubic yards ’ mudslide . |
| 18 | I got up and walked quickly out of the coffee shop , up over the footbridge and on to the other platform — jumping on to the train just as it was about to go . |
| 19 | The catamaran shook its bows against the swell , then she was through the wind and on to the other tack with the sails drawing sweetly . |
| 20 | The A45 was impassable after a lorry overturned in a crash , spilling 20 tonnes of grain across three lanes of the eastbound carriageway and on to the outside lane of the west . |
| 21 | In the meantime , public relations impresario , Regis McKenna Inc , has been hired to distract attention away from ACE 's bevy of erstwhile operating systems and on to the Advanced RISC Computing hardware . |
| 22 | He grasped the forestay in both hands as high up as he could reach and drew himself out of the water and on to the forward hull beam as smoothly as a dolphin breaking for air . |
| 23 | Donna twisted about in the bath , sending water sloshing over the edge and on to the cork-tiled floor . |
| 24 | Her gaze went , unbelievingly , from the pink and blue polka-dot material draping the dressing-table to the bright pink carpet patterned with impossible blue roses and on to the royal-blue wallpaper with its equally impossible pink pansies . |
| 25 | We pedalled eastwards , first past the new Royal Palace — a weird , menacing building with bats hanging in the trees like handbags — and on to the great domed stupa , or Buddhist monument , of Bodnath . |
| 26 | Through the Sound of Grunay , ever threading through a procession of rock islets and on to the northernmost island of Unst , where we tied up for the night at the little pier in Baltasound . |
| 27 | One by one we clambered out of the boat and on to the slippery rocks of an inlet . |
| 28 | The Provost barked an order and the red-hooded executioner turned , wished us good morning , flicked his whip and urged the cart through the gates of the prison and on to the winding track down to Montfaucon . |
| 29 | ‘ He was one of my boys , ’ she said in explanation to the CID sergeant who was leading the party as they bumped over the rough road , through the thick mud and on to the dry embankment . |
| 30 | One night he went to her house , poured paraffin through the letter-box and on to the front door , and set it alight . |