Example sentences of "on [prep] [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He chatted on about them for the rest of the journey , as she had hoped he would , and she learnt that they could n't be better looked after . |
| 2 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 3 | The others pushed on past him in the doorway , but they too stopped when they saw what was revealed on the other side of the windows . |
| 4 | This uses a video camera mounted on the tractor roof matched to a monitor screen on the dashboard to give the driver a view of what 's going on behind him without the need to turn round . |
| 5 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 6 | That 's it and let them , let them get on with it in the middle of bloody summer with a pint of water and say , look , that pint of water has to last you the day . |
| 7 | We always called it the posh part , because although our street carried on from it over the main road , it was like being in a different village altogether . |
| 8 | Now er i i if you 're buying gilts individually , you 've got to know what you 're doing unless you want to hang on to them to the end of the terms , cos gilts are government securities , and they have the different rate , rates of return , different maturity dates . |
| 9 | Between the Wars the cars were open at first , and drivers had to be well-clad in oilskins to avoid the cascade of water which poured on to them from the canopy of the open-fronted trams . |
| 10 | ‘ Then you 'd better get on to them in the first instance . |
| 11 | But why latch on to him as the father of her child ? |
| 12 | Results have not gone in his favour in the short-term , but I believe the club will have a job holding on to him in the future . |
| 13 | I am in the possession of a number of splendid suits , kindly passed on to me over the years by Lord Darlington himself , and by various guests who have stayed in this house and had reason to be pleased with the standard of service here . |
| 14 | My inability to unbelieve in him hung on to me by the jaws , as I ascended the corporate ladder . |
| 15 | Thorough research conducted by Newcastle polytechnic has been passed on to me by the Rev. Paul Nicholson , who has done sterling work to highlight the problems of those on income support . |
| 16 | Again Meredith Wyatt was almost on to her over the fence . |
| 17 | But he would not let her , her stubborn sailor , he held on to her as the walls held on to the moving air within her house . |
| 18 | What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ? |
| 19 | He was particularly adept , this one , at stopping a forward bursting through from the line-out with a startling iron-hard thrust from his stump as he pulled him on to it with the other … |
| 20 | We created something here , something live and good and untrammelled by the rigor mortis of this dying , stinking society clinging with its preying claws so hard to its privileges because it knows it 's dying , only it wants to kill everything else too , only able to say thou Shalt Not because it 's envious , because it 's cold and impotent — they only have to sniff a little bit of genius , of freedom , of life , and they 're on to it with the , lackey hounds tearing it up , and for why ? |
| 21 | ah well , we , we did er , that house we did in , in er Kingsley , well the other side of Kingsley by Northwich for er , he 's the managing director of Tarmac for the North West Division and there he bought this house at Kingsley and er we added on to it on the kitchen was a complete wing that we built , a single storey and the roof spars had to show we had to put imitation |
| 22 | It is surrounded by buildings , the houses being built on to it at the eastern apse . |
| 23 | I , I 've bought you back the whip and I 'm just about to start the other one , so hang on to it at the moment , cos I do n't like too many books around that I 've borrowed , I 've got two . |
| 24 | He spins a tiny triangle of silk a few millimetres in length and deposits a drop of sperm on to it from the gland that lies underneath his body . |
| 25 | Something with the consistency of cement began to splatter from Peters ' ripped torso , but still he clung on to it in the renewed savagery of his hunger . |
| 26 | ‘ How did you get on to it in the first place ? ’ |
| 27 | We need to hurry but it 'll take an hour or so and I do n't want the papers on to it before the next of kin know . |
| 28 | Seemingly standing rigid like a statue , his eyes are fixed on page one of the script while peripheral vision is trying to take in every detail of events going on around him in the studio . |
| 29 | ‘ There was so much going on around him after the World Cup , I 'm not sure even he knew what was going on . |
| 30 | Example 4:4 Turnover rent YIELDING AND PAYING THEREFOR by equal quarterly payments in advance on the usual quarter days : ( 1 ) the annual sum of £ ( " the basic rent " ) ; and ( 2 ) such sum as is calculated in accordance with the Schedule hereto ( " the turnover rent " ) SCHEDULE ( 1 ) In this schedule the following expressions have the following meanings : ( a ) " gross turnover " means the aggregate of all sums : ( i ) received by the tenant in return for goods supplied or services rendered in the course of any trade or business carried on by him in the demised property or partly in the demised property and partly elsewhere ; and ( ii ) payable to the tenant by any person in consideration of the use or occupation of the whole or any part of the demised property ( b ) " a rental year " means a period of twelve calendar months beginning on ( c ) " net turnover " means the gross turnover less : ( i ) any sum actually paid by the tenant to HM Commissioners of Customs and Excise by way of VAT or other tax chargeable on the supply of goods or services ; ( ii ) any sum refunded by the tenant to his customers in respect of defective or unsatisfactory goods or services ; ( iii ) per cent of any sums received by the tenant in return for services for which orders are received at the demised property but are performed wholly elsewhere ( d ) " qualified accountant " means a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ( 2 ) The turnover rent for a rental year shall be : ( a ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ and ( b ) per cent of the net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year exceeding £ but less than £ ( 3 ) Within one month after the beginning of each rental year ( time being of the essence ) the tenant shall deliver to the landlord a certificate signed by a qualified accountant of the tenant 's gross turnover and net turnover for the year immediately preceding that rental year . |