Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun pl] [vb past] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 2 | The station was the product of French television deregulation five years ago , but it never established the audience size or advertising to sustain its costs and the debt that its owners had taken on to launch it . |
| 3 | Maggie put her hands up to push him away but as soon as they touched his skin her palms seemed to take on a life of their own , moving over the strong muscles , her fingers wanting to curl in the crisp black hair that lightly covered his chest . |
| 4 | Just before the men were shot — they 'd had two weeks inside so their beards had taken on something of the authentic rag-tag FAKINTIL glory , as opposed to the clean-shaven image they had presented in their neat malai-issue camos — one shouted out the name of Osvaldo . |
| 5 | McNaught died in Manchester 8 January 1881 , leaving a widow and a grown-up family ; two of his sons continued to carry on their father 's business . |
| 6 | She had glanced at him when directions were needed , observed his chiselled profile just for a moment , saw the unreadable expression , the tightness in his angular jaw , the closed look that told her his thoughts had moved on , were miles away from the insignificant circumstances of the foolish girl beside him . |
| 7 | He was mentioned in despatches , for having displayed the same casual courage his companions had remarked on before the war as he pursued his favourite pastime of mountaineering ( he had neither the time nor patience for golf and was reckoned by devotees to be only a fair-weather fisherman ) . |