Example sentences of "[vb pp] on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | My candle had fallen on to a Bible on the shelf and was burning it . |
2 | From the safety angle , the Bosch tacker will not fire if picked up by the trigger — the nose must be pressed on to a surface for firing . |
3 | His long spine ached , and his eyes felt hot and flat against the windshield , like eggs broken on to a rock . |
4 | Pictured right is a saffron-gatherer whose image , painted on to a wall in Thera ( now Santorini ) in the first century BC , was preserved under ash even as the volcano which produced it was destroying civilisation on the island . |
5 | To mitigate his appearance , he had grown a beard — though it was so fine , to conform with custom , that it might have been painted on with a kohl-brush , an impression reinforced by the methodical severity with which the rest of the face had been shaved . |
6 | To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood . |
7 | A case involving a murder charge would be referred on to a Crown court . |
8 | This mucus capsule swells rapidly on contact with water , protecting the egg from abrasion and fungal infection , while the outermost layer enables the eggs to be fastened on to a plant . |
9 | This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition . |
10 | This is one of the Enemy 's favourite tricks : nothing is more convincing than a half-truth joined on to a lie . |
11 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
12 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
13 | Dummies have since caught on as a fashion accessory at raves , but whether the trend was sparked by the emergence of Ketamine , or whether it 's just a way to keep the burning under control , is lost to myth and drug folklore . |
14 | Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . |
15 | The " fast-track " procedure allowed any agreement reached by US negotiators to be subsequently voted on as a package [ see p. 37849 ] . |
16 | Now , when you find management — the representatives of enterprise and risk capital — standing up in public and saying that they have a responsibility to keep prices stable , or lower them , that individual prices ought to be reported on by a commission , and that profits ought to attract special tax penalties if they exceed a certain level , then it is a sign that either the millennium has arrived or else something is going very seriously wrong indeed . |
17 | We dropped anchor offshore , and passengers and baggage were off-loaded on to a barge . |
18 | Ah was affronted fur her , imagine gettin' stuck ‘ n ’ huvin' to get rolled on to a stretcher , the perr o' them , and kerted oot covered up wi' his poplin shortie . |
19 | The lorry rolled on to a car after its rear wheels were hit by another car which had lost control . |
20 | The power lift appears to have worked with a cable attached to the rear of the plough , which was raised as the other end of the cable was wound on to a shaft . |
21 | With what to Erika , used to the erratic behaviour of the old Lada , was miraculous smoothness , the driver let in the gears and drove down Grotewohlstrasse but instead of turning left at Leipziger Strasse , carried on into a warren of tiny streets . |
22 | They had just simply and totally fallen out of love with each other , and like the devout Catholics they were , carried on as a pretence . |
23 | If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ? |
24 | This will be the case where they are brought under common control or ownership or when one of the enterprises ceases to be carried on as a result of an agreement between the enterprises to prevent competition . |
25 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
26 | Their love affair was carried on against a background of nightly bombings , wartime tension , the advance of the German army on Paris . |
27 | Conversation was carried on against a background of ear-splitting barking . |
28 | ( c ) Management problems Where a practice is carried on in a number of different locations : ( 1 ) rivalry between different offices will naturally occur and is generally healthy , but the partners should not overlook the potential for a fissiparous tendency to develop . |
29 | Yet there is no doubt that they have an active , social life , full of real and caring communication , carried on in a language quite alien to our own experience of mind and meaning . |
30 | A Dessie Edgar corner was neatly side-footed home in 79 minutes by Victor Welch who had just come on as a sub . |