Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pickers were diverted on to another plot after the theft was discovered . |
| 2 | As the media caught on to this aspect of the cult , it caused some skins to leave the movement and more violent people to join it . |
| 3 | Americans have been using 60/40 material for jackets and trousers for years , yet for some reason it 's never quite caught on in this country . |
| 4 | The development strategy adopted in the Greater York study never envisaged that the settlement , or the district that got the new settlement would therefore get a corresponding reduction in the amount of land it had to provide to meet the needs of the Greater York area , the strategy we use to identify sites within the Greater York area that could be developed without compromising greenbelt objectives , and that the new settlement would be added on outside that area without a reduction in that that figure . |
| 5 | For example , maintenance payments and child and one parent benefit can be added on to any earnings from employment to increase lone parents ' incomes . |
| 6 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 7 | Or the quarry would have carried on with this slate mine . |
| 8 | No doubt he himself would have difficulties : but he thought that the Conservatives , without entering into any general undertaking , would support his Government , which would not embark upon any extravagant legislation ; and in this way the King 's Government might be carried on for another Session or even longer . |
| 9 | If Attlee had carried on for another year , and the economy had turned round , Labour might still be in power . |
| 10 | Three operations did not succeed in curing his glaucoma , and he had to give up his business in 1878 , although it was carried on for some years by his daughters , Eleanor , Elizabeth , and Catherine , as E. E. Dancer & Company . |
| 11 | On the one hand , the memorandum of association must qualify the company 's ability to provide surveying services , to the effect that such business must be carried on at all times in accordance with the Rules of Conduct for the time being of the RICS . |
| 12 | If things carried on at this pace , she and Johnny would find themselves meeting every day . |
| 13 | That the document containing the statement was produced by the computer during a period over which the computer was used regularly to store or process information for the purposes of any activity regularly carried on over that period , whether for profit or not , by any body , whether corporate or not , or by any individual ; |
| 14 | Failing success in negotiation , however , the struggle had to be carried on by any means possible . |
| 15 | Of course , the debate is not carried on in these terms . |
| 16 | Logging is still carried on in some areas . |
| 17 | He and Philip Burton conducted what could be looked on as some kind of elaborate courtship ritual which would result in his hurtling on to a world stage . |
| 18 | Now he 's associated with the wrong sort of guys , so he 's gotten on to that stuff . |
| 19 | Dry off gladioli corms in trays , then remove very small cormlets that have developed around the base — these will eventually flower , but only when grown on for several years . |
| 20 | Those that you think are worth persevering with can be grown on for another year , getting a second chance to bloom . |
| 21 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 22 | Even though the method described by Braybrook and Powell ( 1980 ) has moved on since this time , it still does not reflect current knowledge of child language . |
| 23 | The woman is moved on to another bed . |
| 24 | But the gang had already moved on to another pub just a mile or so down the road . |
| 25 | The man replaced the blanket , and then moved on to another corpse . |
| 26 | I wondered if she 'd moved on to another place in the forest without saying anything , but when I stood perfectly still , I could hear the rhythmic scratching of her karaso from behind some trees , and the occasional tearing sound when she accidentally caught it in the undergrowth . |
| 27 | There is no suggestion in the that he was dismissed from the kazaskerlik ; he seems simply to have moved on to another job , one which , according to Hocazade 's own testimony , suited him very well . |
| 28 | After seven years as secretary in Convocation Office , Mrs. Judith Nelson has moved on to another post within the University . |
| 29 | Once more it was the terms used by people such as the Iroquois , who were believed to have moved on from this stage , who provided the evidence for its previous existence . |
| 30 | ‘ Like I said , I enjoyed being with her , but you would have to be some kind of retard to get turned on in those scenes by thinking I am kissing a sex symbol … |