Example sentences of "on [to-vb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 2 | With only ninepence in their pockets , they founded an old boys ' association that went on to include a thriving club ( albeit minus clubhouse ) , a sports field and four football teams competing in the Zingari and Old Boys Associations ' leagues . |
| 3 | THE fight is on to include an old power station site within a country park . |
| 4 | She went on to emphasise the growing need to tackle environmental problems : ‘ It is no good proposing that we go back to some simple village life and halve our population by some means that have not yet been revealed . |
| 5 | Reshevsky went on to lose an interzonal play-off for the World Championship in 1964 and was beaten again in the quarter-finals four years later . |
| 6 | The Board ordered that they be received into the vagrants ' ward as a temporary measure , and went on to instruct the medical officer to vaccinate all the other unprotected inmates of the workhouse . |
| 7 | I was n't about to miss the parade , and went on to see the whole event , and photographed it — all the red flags , the guns , the cannons , the missiles , everything , including Black September Group marching . |
| 8 | He goes on to connect the semantic change with ‘ the general tendency of the Enlightenment not to accept any authority and to decide everything before the judgement seat of reason ’ ( p. 241 ) . |
| 9 | Only around 30 per cent of those who have been vaccinated go on to contract a mild dose of flu , and even then the risk of secondary infections is considerably reduced . |
| 10 | At the gates , frustration turns on the police , once again called on to enforce an industrial relations strategy . |
| 11 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 12 | The shy 19-year-old who married the heir to the throne has gone on to shake the British monarchy to its roots . |
| 13 | ‘ Hopeless , I know , ’ said Karelius , going on to relate a fictitious story of the difficulties encountered by one of his farmer patients in obtaining payment for fodder . |
| 14 | By the end of 1908 Picasso owned at least five tribal objects and he went on to amass a large collection , much of it of very doubtful quality , although after the war when his own work was commanding large prices he occasionally exchanged a painting for a choice piece . |
| 15 | Occasionally , this may be foreseen even at the start of your employment : for example , if your position is subject to funding from an outside source or if you are taken on to supervise a particular contract , as may happen in the engineering and construction fields amongst others . |
| 16 | But brave dad Brendan has vowed not to give up hope and a Europe-wide search is still on to find a suitable donor for Caolan . |
| 17 | If you know such a coach then nominate him/her now because the search is on to find the 1993 Coach of the Year . |
| 18 | And the search is on to find the top dog among an entry of eight hundred collies , German shepherds and even poodles . |
| 19 | Todorov then goes on to establish the primary categories of his narrative grammar , and they are proper noun , adjective and verb . |
| 20 | In 1843 the Corsican hotelier Zenon Vantini leased them , achieving such success that he went on to establish the first railway refreshment room at Wolverton . |
| 21 | So the teacher finally asks Peggy , who can be relied on to know the correct answer : |
| 22 | He then went on to provide a long list , not of items that we could accept , but of items that we could not accept . |
| 23 | Bitterly disappointed , Harrison abandoned medical reform , but his ideas lived on to provide a solid basis for future important developments , which culminated in the Medical Act of 1858 . |
| 24 | There is a ‘ loop ’ ( ( 5 ) d-(5)f ) while the listener establishes the siting of the aerial but having established the options the speaker then goes on to indicate the next step of the route — ( ( 5 ) i ) . |
| 25 | Lord Morton went on to construe the statutory terms extremely narrowly as permitting challenge only if express statutory requirements were violated . |
| 26 | In 1893 , when American celebrated the 400th anniversary of Columbus ( a year late ) , the robber barons who banded together to support the Chicago exhibition went on to found the American Academy in Rome . |
| 27 | The letters dated 25th May and 6th June were fully endorsed by the most recent meeting of the Forum which went on to pass a detailed resolution which is referred to in the press release . |
| 28 | But that was n't the end of it ; they had made up their minds to sample every diversion that Wickhams had to offer , and went on to explore the entire store , from Haberdashery , where Mabel bought some knicker-elastic , to Hardware , where Florrie could not resist a patent vegetable slicer which was being demonstrated by a lady in a snowy white apron , who showed them how the little gadget peeled apples , chipped potatoes , sliced onions and generally made itself invaluable to the busy housewife . |
| 29 | They do n't go on to explore the other stitches that their machine can do . |
| 30 | In group ( whole or part ) discussion , trainees should be asked to provide an ABC analysis of the problem and then go on to explore the main points of a possible intervention and the notion of response competition , punishers and rewards to weaken and strengthen behaviours respectively . |