Example sentences of "it [vb past] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it howled on to a new course , the river bank no longer protected Trent and Mariana from the worst of its savagery . |
| 2 | Her mouth twisted wryly ; at twenty-four she should have put all that aside , but it lingered on like a bitter legacy . |
| 3 | It opened on to a flagged walled yard that sloped steeply upward to where steps and a battered gate gave access to the rear driveway , with its ramshackle collection of goat- and poultry-pens . |
| 4 | After a while it turned on to a concrete road , where another truck was waiting . |
| 5 | He expected his quarry to turn left at any moment for Heiligenstadt and the north , but instead it pressed on into a part of the city unfamiliar to him , in or near the Jewish quarter . |
| 6 | It followed on from a Nov. 28 agreement between both countries to extend the previous 150-mile fishing limit to the north , east and south of the Falkland Islands into a 200-mile Anglo-Argentine co-operation area , from which other international fishing fleets from Japan , South Korea , Taiwan and the Soviet Union would be excluded as from Dec. 26 [ see p. 37853 ] . |
| 7 | It looked on to a pool , one of several small pools created by the removal of clay for the reserve 's perimeter wall . |
| 8 | and I thought to myself that blooming cat 's after them and er it kept on for a long time and then , so I opened the window and looked out a big black cat was here where 's the big black cat coming from ? |
| 9 | It went on to a leading role in the ‘ Baker plan ’ , Brady 's predecessor , based on debt rescheduling and new loans , not debt relief . |
| 10 | It went on for a long time afterwards , I do n't know if he 's still in love with me , ’ she says . |
| 11 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 12 | It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth . |
| 13 | ‘ It dragged on for a long time afterwards . |
| 14 | Oh , certainly , yes , yes , and and it carried on for a long time afterwards , and and I think is is still used in some selection processes . |
| 15 | It backed on to a big grey building like an overgrown garden shed , with no windows . |
| 16 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |