Example sentences of "[vb past] on [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 2 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 3 | The oral tradition lived on into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 4 | Plans agreed on by the first meeting included a shopping trip to Holland to visit a shop which sells outsize jeans and sweat-shirts and another to Germany to a shop which claims to sell the biggest size shoes in the world . |
| 5 | Viola was beaming benevolently as she read on into the last column . |
| 6 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 7 | The squeeze is , in turn , passed on to the next person . |
| 8 | Much weakened constitutionally , I passed on to the next stage . |
| 9 | She passed on to the next sheet . |
| 10 | The lift halted at the twelfth floor for the girls to get out , then whispered on towards the fifteenth . |
| 11 | I checked the position of the pin , rather generously placed in the right centre of the green , and moved on towards the tenth hole . |
| 12 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 13 | After a suitably stern telling off from Mr Grovey ( whose bald head always got redder the angrier he got ) the lesson moved on to the next phase . |
| 14 | Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow . |
| 15 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 16 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 17 | It was non-stop activity as one event moved on to the next , together with a feast of fizzy drinks , buckets of ice cream , crisps and many balloons . |
| 18 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 19 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 20 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 21 | Probably because they had n't re-used they got there by two or three or four years time when they came on to the next level of management the junior management erm we did this with them again and you would begin to find certain skills had evolved and certain certain team strengths had arisen because they do change over the years . |
| 22 | Waqar , relieved after only one over with the new ball , came on for the 17th over and soon caused umpire Shepherd to scowl as he bounced the ball into Atherton 's left arm and Smith 's helmet . |
| 23 | Sterland came on for the last half-hour of this week 's 3-0 reserve team win over Manchester City at Maine Road , and yesterday declared : ‘ It went brilliantly . |
| 24 | Somerset openers Andy Hayhurst and Mark Lathwell began promisingly against the pacemen but Carrick came on for the last over before lunch and had Lathwell caught at slip off a cunningly flighted ball which turned . |
| 25 | ‘ Adam Reed came on for the last half hour and did well for a 16-year-old . ’ |
| 26 | Rocky came on in the 60th minute but could not affect the game . |
| 27 | Paul came on in the second half of the game in Dublin last week and played well . |
| 28 | The mother and daughter walked on towards the third door on the other side of the corridor and which led into Mrs Funnell 's room . |
| 29 | As he walked on to the first tee he could n't get any proper words out at all , and so I was frightened to speak to him in case he thought I was teasing him . |
| 30 | When he stepped on to the seventh tee he was five shots clear of all challengers and the title was safely under lock and key . |