Example sentences of "[vb past] on [coord] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His keen interest in overseas education and his practical encouragement of overseas students built on and developed traditions of his Quaker predecessors , Basil Fletcher and Helen Wodehouse . |
| 2 | But it caught on and this week around 100 young people came in to enjoy the snooker and non-alcoholic bar at their own meeting place , The Jam Pot Centre , run by the Church of the Nazarene in Lothian Road , Hartlepool . |
| 3 | Auxiliary pumps came on but vital valves had been left shut and they were ineffective . |
| 4 | Blanche drove on and three hours later she was safe in Dornaway Castle , where she seemed so shaken that they put her straight to bed . |
| 5 | As the century wore on and transatlantic travel improved , the exchanges increased . |
| 6 | But the wave of publications of this kind which began in the 1850s could only gather strength as the century went on and public interest in foreign policy questions grew . |
| 7 | Everywhere French flags were ripped in half and trampled on and great gangs of young soldiers joined together to shout and curse the very name of France . |