Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cycling is cheered on by town crowds outside the cafes and brasseries , eating chips with mussels or andouillettes , the spiced sausages made of pigs ' chitterlings , all washed down with beer : the Artois lagers or the rich dark malts of Belgium . |
| 2 | In the following Experiment 2.3 various colours were used to test how far the eye can be relied on to judge backgrounds in the circumstances under which the eventual instrument would be used . |
| 3 | They may be picked on in revenge raids by the security forces after attacks by armed opposition groups or protests by political groups . |
| 4 | I , my interest lies particularly I think in the kind of erm popular fiction written in America between the wars , though it has to some extent carried on since World War Two . |
| 5 | Activities carried on outside office hours which are accountancy related and therefore similar to daily work — Preparation of club and charity accounts — Providing accountancy or taxation services etc . |
| 6 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 7 | The police carried on down Duke Street , clearing the crowd in front of them as demonstrators screamed hysterically . |
| 8 | For the most part , agricultural education which includes education for horticulture , forestry , poultry husbandry and dairying is carried on in specialist colleges of agriculture and horticulture , together with some general technical colleges . |
| 9 | Computer technology built on to telephone exchanges will allow subscribers to have the same number wherever they are in the country , automatically reject unwanted calls and bar calls to ‘ chat-lines ’ or other unwanted services . |
| 10 | The two cations most readily absorbed on to clay minerals are H + ; and Ca 2 + ; , and the cation most easily released is Na 2 + ; . |
| 11 | The bill poster had moved on to dryer pastures and all the gas-lamps were now lit . |
| 12 | The delegation then moved on to South Cleveland Hospital . |
| 13 | And so Bickers moved on to form Levitation , and into his shoes stepped Simon Walker , just long enough to tour extensively and to record the latest album before he , too , split . |
| 14 | Although they have worked together for so many years , there has still been time for individual projects and exhibitions : François-Xavier has moved on from vegetable architecture to monumental fountains and sculptures ; Claude 's ventures include jewellery and bronze furniture for an American garden , stage props for Bob Wilson and breastplates for the angels in Wim Wenders ' film ‘ Wings of Desire ’ . |
| 15 | Wearing the Lord of the Isles tartan , he used a crook to support the knee recently operated on for cartilage damage . |
| 16 | The one hundred and fifty-foot Grand Fir was operated on by tree surgeons who were worried it could be getting too big for its roots . |
| 17 | He was brought to this country by Convoy Aid Romania suffering water on the brain and was operated on by neurosurgeon Fred Nath in Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 18 | Based on a series of works by Picasso collectively known as the Antipolis cycle , made in 1946 to 1947 , the images have been engraved on to metal plates by Claude Rodrigues and printed uninked ( a technique known as gaufrage ) . |
| 19 | SUMMERCHILD : I mean , since we seem to have got on to household appliances in general … |
| 20 | According to Anil Gadre , Sun Microsystems Computer Corp 's vice president of systems product marketing , the new licensing strategy — see front page — should , for example , enable the Sparc compatible community to get its hands on the company 's next-generation Viking , or SuperSparc technology — being co-developed with Texas Instruments Inc — much more quickly than the best part of a year that elapsed between the launch of the Sparcstation 2 ( UX No 308 ) , and the day Sun gave the green light for the LSI Logic Inc made 40MHz Sparc chip sets to be sold on to Sun wannabe 's ( UX No 356 ) . |
| 21 | He was sold on to make way for two show jumpers — Lady Touchwood , a 15.3hh Thoroughbred and Floyd , a part Thoroughbred . |
| 22 | Ken was even invited on to television news to talk about it . |
| 23 | From the point of view of the tenant , he has the security of the rents payable by the subtenants , and is not called on to find income from other resources . |
| 24 | Alan Howard as Henry Higgins , called on to abandon subtlety , seems uncomfortable . |
| 25 | This is because the state is expanding as the unit of international society , and is being called on to take responsibility for the welfare of its citizens in a wider range of areas . |
| 26 | THE Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , will be called on to back demands for Scotland 's MEPs to be elected next year by proportional representation . |
| 27 | Victor Matterface , the Brakes Inspector of the Metropolitan tramways , who later became a well-known Tramway Engineer elsewhere , describes how he was called on to visit South Metropolitan depôts as well as in the 1920's . |
| 28 | Called on to repeat information he failed to do so . |
| 29 | They said that if the expert departed from his instructions in a material respect , eg where he was called on to value shares in a company and he valued the wrong number of shares or shares in the wrong company , that would be sufficient . |
| 30 | Many Christians today , especially in the Western world , are not called on to bear suffering , rejection and death in their discipleship . |