Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon .
2 I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior .
3 No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is
4 Right and then others followed you on after that did they ?
5 Had their father — the thought aroused crazy laughter — passed it on from some episode in his youth ?
6 Ultimately the Marino family surrendered the site to the governor who sold it on to another Milanese businessman , Carlo Omodeo , who did at least allow a member of the Marino family to live in part of it — at an agreed rent .
7 So well we could go out there anyway to see whether they 've got any er you see if they carried it on for another month
8 Tony had it on with this Delight Clover Light .
9 One of his strange exploits among other frolics , was having a coffin made of copper ( which one of his mines had that year produced ) , and placed in the great hall , and instead of his making use of it as a monitor that might have made him ashamed and terrified at his past life , and induce him to make amends in future , it was filled with punch , and he and his comrades soon made themselves incapable of any sort of reflection ; this was often repeated , and hurried him on to that awful moment he had so much reason to dread .
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