Example sentences of "on [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 2 | Cherrykino , carrying the colours of Anne Duchess of Westminster , is a highly progressive chaser and turned over odds-on Milford Quay when running on gamely from the last to prevail by a length . |
| 3 | From the tarn , I followed my nose down to a cairn that stands on the shoulder above Deepdale Side where the view down Deepdale into Dentdale was so good that I sat and looked at it for a good half-hour until the thought that I needed to be home by late afternoon pushed me on down to the green lane of the old Craven Way . |
| 4 | Flashes of colour exploded in her head behind tightly shut eyelids as the expert stroke of his fingers moved boldly lower to seek and investigate , with utmost sensitivity , the small nub of femininity between the soft golden curls , and then hungrily on down into the moist , secret tightness below … |
| 5 | If he loses both he will still want to hang on in for the three autumn World Cup games in which England 's fate is still in his own hands . |
| 6 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 7 | The allies should not welcome this , though the argument for fighting on regardless of the latest Soviet efforts at peacemaking was neither bloodthirsty nor trivial . |
| 8 | ‘ They were obviously carrying on long before the first Mrs Suvarov died , and I … |
| 9 | As they ran on together across the flat open plateau , Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done . |
| 10 | The government began by taking on much of the financial responsibility for education , with the exception of some school building . |
| 11 | There was at the time of reorganization a considerable expansion of advisory services to meet the desire for increased curriculum coherence and the staff appointed were to take on much of the short course organization and guidance to schools for school focused INSET . |
| 12 | The Saturday shift always seemed to drag on endlessly for the elderly night watchman and he envied people who did not have to work at the weekends . |
| 13 | So the first thing you 'd expect on just by the false but enormously appealing principle that the world is simple and elegant , is there is just one level of structure there . |
| 14 | So the cameraman , looking through his viewfinder , could see the caption slide through the glass plate , plus sufficient reflection of the action going on over at the black drape set . |
| 15 | We see action in one area not as self-contained or hermetically sealed , but as spilling over to affect and be affected by what goes on elsewhere under the same roof . |
| 16 | This led to a good deal of overlapping and interdepartmental rivalry , notably between the foreign and war offices : propaganda in the neutral states which it was most important to influence was in fact carried on largely by the British diplomatic missions there , often supported by groups of expatriates and local anglophiles . |
| 17 | He held on desperately to the dead weight fish , but try as he might , he was unable to regain his feet . |
| 18 | She watched as Simon wandered on through into the all-white kitchen , the door swinging shut behind him . |
| 19 | High on the wall of my room , near the open window , waiting for the lights to come on , a gecko is clinging on hopefully to the knobbly plaster . |
| 20 | It was the end of the first stage of a conflict which was to rumble on up to the Second World War . |
| 21 | You 've only got to look at history … slavery which led into colonialism which developed into full-blown imperialism , right on up to the present-day immigration policies . |
| 22 | I ran faster , over the rocks on to the firm sand , over the driftline and on up to the golden sand , slower and dry , then up to the grass on the nearest dune . |
| 23 | What is actually happening of course we know in that case what is actually happening , because nerves erm er neurones in , in the base of the brain are actually sampling the blood flow as it goes through with sugar level and when the sugar level drops to a critical point , some of those neurones start to fire and as they fire gradually the message is passed on up to the higher brain centres and eventually you get the feeling you 're hungry . |
| 24 | Instead of getting out at her own floor she went on up to the fourth floor , and stood in front of Matthew Prescott 's front door . |
| 25 | She went on out to the main road . |
| 26 | On top of the Alice Liddell , the floods swivelled and became searchlights , two broad beams shining up at the roof of the bay and on out into the dark gulf beyond . |
| 27 | Well they want to connect Mansfield then they want to connect eventually right up through Worksop and on out into the main lines . |
| 28 | I think if Shrewsbury can hold on now for the next five or six or seven minutes they could be alright . |
| 29 | Passing on now to the Cretaceous , there were Complications at the beginning of that period , perhaps related to the poorly dated orogenies of other parts of the world . |
| 30 | We move on now to the closing headlines . |