Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of significant changes have occurred in British society since 1979 , and the one centred on in this book has been the emergence of an underclass . |
| 2 | So what they says is that I , I got on at this wall , jumped across onto this other wall , shinned up the outside of this other wall , stood on top of this the first floor wall and jumped up and caught hold of the top of the second floor wall and he reckon in the la about fucking twenty odd seconds , I was up and over and in , they , they , they fucking kill yourself , get down , I ca n't remember none of it . |
| 3 | On rehearsal , when our cue came through , we heard him say ‘ I am a sea-gull at the Port of Vancouver ’ instead of the ‘ Fitzpatrick Travelogue ’ script agreed on for this part of the show . |
| 4 | She grumbled on in this vein as she prepared the food and I ran about as the scullion . |
| 5 | The research reported on in this book consisted of semi-structured , tape-recorded interviews with ninety-six students ( forty-eight male , forty-eight female ) , and twelve members of academic staff , in three different institutions . |
| 6 | To have a dual occupation was an ancient way of life that lingered on in this area well into the Victorian period . |
| 7 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 8 | 1.1.4 the right to use the Licensed Software for demonstration , testing , support and such other purposes as are directly connected with the exercise of the rights conferred on by this Agreement ; |
| 9 | Now , I 've got plans , and I hoped I could bring those about while you screwed on with this cockamamy set up . |
| 10 | I 'll tell him or anyone , and I meant it , so he started on about this night at the bowling club , but it was his actions Joy , I want to know who 's coming , we need to know , I thought but why 's he fucking boss me about on my private time , anyway to cut a long story short they booked all this night out and I watched and I waited I thought let them clock that I 'm not going , so then comes a phone call , David was in the bottom office so was the letter shark , and this phone call came over and David shouted up to all of us on the machine who 's going on Thursday night ? |
| 11 | As they worked on in this way , the horse 's alarms became briefer , his paces slower , until eventually he dropped to a walk . |
| 12 | Only one copper wire is needed to carry the current required for any bulb switched on in this way so there is a saving in terms of cost and weight . |
| 13 | She stumbled on in this manner for some time before I talked her into accepting a chair and a cuppa . |
| 14 | But when the boys became seven they they went on to this school on the green . |
| 15 | But of course there had been no communication between her aunt and Silas for three years , therefore she was unlikely to be aware of what went on at this back-blocks property . |
| 16 | They went on with this banter as they drove down the hill and along the road to the beach . |
| 17 | They went on in this vein for several minutes while Ganem , occasionally shaking his head in disgust , tried to continue his conversation with Coleman . |
| 18 | For all that , there was not much that went on in this household that Radulfus did not know . |
| 19 | How should he get through his work if he went on in this way ? |
| 20 | I went on in this fashion for some while . |
| 21 | She imagined Georg happy and married to some nice girl , while she went on in this gulf of misery for the rest of her life , hanging around waiting for glimpses of Gesner , spending every night reliving every moment they had been together , all the wonderful things he had said to her , the magic of his hands when he touched her — she shivered . |
| 22 | But leaned on in this way , Lord Brabourne and the Broadlands Trust felt they had no option but to accept his advice , and permission to show the Suez film was withheld . |
| 23 | They carried on in this fashion for another day and a half , travelling at night to conserve energy . |
| 24 | Mr Smith , of course , latched on to this development . |
| 25 | He remembered how the travellers and the seafarers who came to Tara had always told that at the centre of every whirlpool , at the heart of every tempest , is a great tranquillity , and he caught and held on to this thought . |
| 26 | He walked back over the warm , moonlit meadows and paused before the inn , but held on to this resolution , the righteousness firing through him like brandy . |
| 27 | They held on to this fortress until 1264 , when it passed to the Habsburgs , who in turn lost it to the canton of Zurich in 1452 . |