Example sentences of "on [prep] the [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But before a settlement is reached , this accounting controversy will rumble on through the winter and early spring . |
| 2 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 3 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 4 | His objective had to be to drive on through the tumult and horror as best they could , not to get involved with individuals or groups , not to be sidetracked , so as to reach that further side , there to turn and repeat the dire process , difficult as this must be . |
| 5 | The debriefing had gone on through the afternoon and early evening in the sound-proofed rooms of their headquarters . |
| 6 | We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area . |
| 7 | Eileen lingered on through the morning and the brown September afternoon , her life twirling like a hectic-stricken leaf on a thin stem . |
| 8 | Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 9 | The second was an untidy and protracted business , stretching on through the spring and summer and coinciding with the refusal of The Possessed to be contained within the limits of a ‘ tendentious ’ sideshow . |
| 10 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 11 | They 've been revolting for years under the surface and then some thing happens that make it possible course the continued revolutions have gone on through the world and because they 've seen the success of a revolution in Russia although we did n't know the full facts of it in the West , it was , it did establish a huge area in the wake of a revolution . |
| 12 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , when we were going on about the Universe and all the galaxies and the Big Bang , we talked about gravity forces — between the galaxies — trying to pull them together . |
| 14 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 15 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 16 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 17 | Then the ginger kitten I hid in the garden shed and mother found it and there was a monumental scene and Helen called her a beast ; funny , I can hear it now , mother going on about the kitten and Helen suddenly exploding and mother 's face . |
| 18 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |
| 19 | I was on about the necklace and you said it was a bit pricey |
| 20 | I wanted to put that in , rather than going on about the deprivation and the tragedy of divorce and broken families . ’ |
| 21 | Ayrton Senna is always carrying on about the intellectual and spiritual fascination of discovering his own limits in a racing car . |
| 22 | I would just like to I know we need to the television programmes on about the Gulf and so on , but I 've two young children at home , and I find that yesterday was a very long day because there was just nothing on for them at all B B C two at four o'clock . |
| 23 | ‘ She kept going on about the fox and coughing . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 25 | That part of the package has to be right , but it 's impossible to separate it from the consultation that goes on between the customer and the supplier before the sale is clinched . |
| 26 | There was an open war going on between the child and the nun , and the class was aware of it and daily seemed to await events . |
| 27 | Murderous and anguished work — the thinking that goes on between the rehearsal and the deed itself . |
| 28 | And major differences emerged very early on between the English and European movements . |
| 29 | such a vertical representation tells us nothing about the relationships that go on between the centre and field offices . |
| 30 | By January 1928 the preparatory negotiations were going on between the TUC and the Confederation of Employers Organizations and the Federation of British Industries , the two main employers ' organisations . |