Example sentences of "on [prep] a [noun sg] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 2 | Put that heater on then would you that one on for a while just before they come . |
| 3 | The reminders of the V-Force will live on for a while yet until the Victors are retired so perhaps we will see more of this not unimpressive aircraft in 1993 . |
| 4 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 5 | If your record starts to pick up air play and get reviewed just after three weeks , it may be worth keeping your plugger and press officer on for a bit longer . |
| 6 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 7 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 8 | ‘ The likes of her 'll go on for a bit yet , ’ said Jack . |
| 9 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 10 | The uprising is certainly an historic event , but the conflict over Palestine has been going on for a century now . |
| 11 | Hang on for a second please . |
| 12 | Put it on low and leave it the night and day cos it was left on for a week once was n't it ? |
| 13 | ‘ In the long-run I 'd like to be looked on as a composer rather than a stick player . |
| 14 | ‘ When you were a gunner — as I was — you signed on as a merchant deckhand because if your ship put into neutral port and you went ashore as a gunner , you could be interned . |
| 15 | And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’ |
| 16 | It provides a third level of classroom video following on from A Weekend Away and A Week by the Sea . |
| 17 | His son perhaps stayed on in a bungalow there , moving his goods by dinghy . |
| 18 | Yeah well I 'll put my seat belt on in a minute right |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A stranger asking for employment at the mine would not , unless he was skilled in the mining trade , expect to be taken on in a partnership so readily , though a labour shortage might improve his chances . |
| 21 | I wont be truly happy until we get completely pissed on in a match yet come away with a win . |
| 22 | It is far better to recognize that external circumstances have changed , or simply that one made a mistaken series of assumptions about one 's own relative strengths , rather than to plough on in a situation where plainly the goal you have set yourself is unattainable . |
| 23 | Compare Auntie 's " Him and his women " ( a fine , natural contour ) with her That is the sort of weak politeness ' just afterwards , where the thought is dwelt on in a manner quite foreign to real life ; or the inane canonic whining of the Nieces ( not perhaps Britten 's most successful creations ) with Balstrode 's " D' you think we should stop our storm for such as you ? " |
| 24 | To lay an egg , the female grasps a hair and deposits some ‘ cement ’ which is extruded on to a hair just before the egg is laid . |
| 25 | Erm for another reasons , which we shall get on to a bit later , there may be a great deal of confusion , er memories may not be clear or well formed , um people , according to some theories and ideas , people may be under-reporting because um y'know it helps them maintain their eq equilibrium a bit better . |
| 26 | I smoked for twenty seven years , and erm I 'm getting on to a year now since I stopped smoking and I feel a lot calmer , I hated being a victim to cigarettes ! |
| 27 | Mrs Williams was at the time the most popular women in the world , after Mother Teresa , and it occurred to me , rather too late , that I was on to a loser here . |
| 28 | Well because when you shine a light on to a board only half of it is gon na be facing only half of it is gon na be facing . |
| 29 | They had turned on to a side-road now . |
| 30 | Follow this , keeping edge of wood on left and take next left fork which runs up on to a shoulder where another path joins from left and then ascends shoulder steeply ( f ) . |