Example sentences of "on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Hinrich and Senta Medau are no longer with us , their work and inspiration live on through the second generation , while in this country the Medau Society celebrates its 35th Anniversary in 1987 . |
| 2 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
| 3 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
| 4 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked , as the car moved smoothly down the road and then on through the small village just beyond . |
| 5 | They walked on through the driving rain . |
| 6 | The Inspector pushed on through the unfamiliar undergrowth , ‘ 1965 to 1972 , Priest in charge , St James 's Malta ; 1973 to 1980 , Priest in charge , St George 's Monte Regia ; 1982 to 1987 , Vicar of St Ermyntrude Warnford Parva ; 1987 , Rector , St Benet Oldfield with St Nicholas Nether Oldfield . ’ |
| 7 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 8 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again . |
| 9 | For instance , he observed expansions of English foreign trade on about a 50-year cycle from the 1790s to 1810 , from 1842 to 1873 , and from 1893 to 1914 , each separated by periods of consolidation . |
| 10 | I mean I do that with a , you know when I 'm sort of on about a long delivery talk about |
| 11 | You were always the one that was on about a regular life . ’ |
| 12 | Well , they broke through on about a forty mile stretch Where they really gained ground is up towards Arras , they made about five miles there , and down around St Quentin . |
| 13 | Then I put labels on about every single pot I could find that 's got all these various mixes in . |
| 14 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
| 15 | Zoya rattled on about the appalling queue , and some interesting gossip she 'd picked up there , but Anna cut her short , saying she was busy and would see her later . |
| 16 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
| 17 | You remember I said to you that the only thing any witnesses could agree on about the first bloke who killed himself was his staring eyes ? ’ |
| 18 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
| 19 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
| 20 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 21 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 23 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 24 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 25 | But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors . |
| 26 | On about the last trip of the night-shift , around dawn , the EMU on which he was working was approaching Kirkhill , the terminal of that particular service . |
| 27 | Frank what about this argument that 's going on about the free kick that was disallowed ? |
| 28 | As the prospects of a Tory victory recedes , the likes of Sunderland car magnate Sir Tom Cowie and Tyneside bus burgher Martin Ballinger have been banging on about the Tory cause . |
| 29 | On about the eighteenth floor , I hear the elevator doors open and voices cursing in Polish above . |
| 30 | Whingeing on about the sodding film . |