Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Can I make a suggestion rather than re-numbering all those , its going to be quite a long job , is that from what I can see at the moment there is no reason why that ca n't be added on as a last sentence to nine anyway , cause nine says you records the outcome of the enquiry , .
2 Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year .
3 The identification with the ‘ home town ’ ( furusato ) was carried on into the next , urban-born generation .
4 Despite this apparent lack of interest at high level , detail work must have been carried on during the next two years , for Gordon Thomas , together with the signatories of the memorandum , took out two patents relating to the lift .
5 Debts were carried on to the next account ; there was certainly none of the easy attitude of the old 17th Century German masters who regularly wrote workers ' debts off .
6 The medium of continuous recording prompted the inclusion of bridging scenes to allow one group of characters time to go off one set and onto another while the action is carried on by the second group of characters .
7 Trevor Williamson , an 82nd minute replacement for Stephen McBride , floated in a corner which was knocked down and McMullan , who had come on in the 64th , hammered it into the net .
8 Somatostatin infusion ( Somatostatine UCB 250 µg/h ) was given to reduced pancreatic secretion and elective surgical intervention was decided on for the seventh day .
9 But it is not merely the world of ideas and scholarship which has moved on since the 19th century .
10 The Founders moved on to the next question .
11 And by now the Prime Minister has moved on to the next sterling crisis .
12 This system involves a continuous rotation of paddocks in which the susceptible younger calves graze ahead of the immune adults and remain long enough in each paddock to remove only the leafy upper herbage before being moved on to the next paddock .
13 But wherever they end up , there 's a good chance they 'll be moved on again in the next few weeks — 28 groups have been moved on in the last 18 months and the County Council is moving on another group from Kirtlington , north of Oxford tomorrow .
14 Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness .
15 I was operated on for the first time when I was two or three weeks old .
16 As I recall it , I was a parcel , handed on to the next bloke at the end of the day .
17 The headstock is scarfed on behind the first fret ( as , in fact , were those on original Goodfellow basses ) .
18 ‘ No more chocolate , thanks , ’ she said again , then stared down at the topaz surrounded by a cluster of diamonds which Vitor had slid on to the third finger of her left hand .
19 As the entrance requirements for universities , colleges and the professions have become more demanding in recent years , so increasing numbers have stayed on for a Sixth Year to study for Certificate of Sixth Year Studies examinations , to take ‘ crash ’ courses or modules in new subjects or to upgrade their existing results .
20 This poem is about the death of one of Wilfred Owen 's fellow soldiers and this is focused on in the first stanza .
21 They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display .
22 The anti-violence lobby resulted in a lot of romantic schmaltz being grafted on to the fifth series .
23 The civil population had been summarily evacuated ; a few enterprising and courageous camp-followers , evading the grasp of the gendarmes , had clung on to the last , but eventually all that remained were three elderly townsmen permitted to run a canteen for the troops .
24 The importance of the parallel market is touched on in the first two sources above , and also in Podolski ( 1986 , Chs 5.2 and 6.2 ) , Llewellyn et al.
25 The work of the courts is touched on in the next chapter .
26 I am also in no doubt about the amount of devoted hard work that has gone on during the last four years .
27 Jane tried to comfort Flora by telling her that her own two younger children had got itchy feet at sixteen too , and left school : her son had gone on to a sixth form college which he found highly satisfying — ‘ One 's treated like an adult , ’ and her daughter to do a foundation course in art .
28 I should have then gone on to the next cleanest one and finished off with the cleanest one .
29 An enormous amount of research has gone on in the last few decades into how and when settlements originated and how they have changed over time .
30 Sin , pain and death were linked together ; all three belonged inescapably to our transitory existence in an imperfect world , and each link in the chain led on to the next one .
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