Example sentences of "on [prep] [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's actually on for two hours in the evening . |
| 2 | Family Day at OBEX was the highlight of the year , and preparations went on for several weeks in advance . |
| 3 | They walked on for several paces in silence . |
| 4 | They went on for some way in silence . |
| 5 | This , however , is not the thinking — and it may be presumptuous — that moved BBC2 to hit us between the frontal lobes with Jonathan Miller 's states of mind ( 20 February ) , a series that will march on for 15 weeks in the cause of bringing us up to date with what is happening in psychology . |
| 6 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 7 | If you knew some of the goings on of that lot in high places . ’ |
| 8 | Modern critics were not good at Anglo-Saxon echoes , especially at ones which hung on into modern times in phrases like ‘ mock ’ and ‘ make ’ , ‘ chance ’ and ‘ choice ’ , ‘ bullet ’ and ‘ billet ’ , all mentioned already in this study . |
| 9 | If people are kept awake for long periods of time , their drowsiness lessens in the morning and comes on with increased severity in the evening . |
| 10 | Talking of bitches , how are you getting on with old Sinbad in Cas. ? ’ |
| 11 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 12 | Complaints may come on from electric changes in the atmosphere . |
| 13 | Had their father — the thought aroused crazy laughter — passed it on from some episode in his youth ? |
| 14 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 15 | MORE teenagers are staying on in further education in County Durham . |
| 16 | Work out how many stitches are required ; cast on over that number in the rib required and knit a single rib . |
| 17 | It did n't seem much on its own but , when it was added to other suggested improvements , it could mean that each operator could put four parts on to each car in the same time . ’ |
| 18 | The art of vituperation comes naturally to Busi , and , although the picture of Northern Italian provincial life ( in the vicinity of Brescia ) which the author paints occupies only a small part of the novel , which takes his picaresque hero on to greater things in Milan , Paris and London , it is a memorable picture , and provides the necessary underpinning to a writing that spares no effort to make the reader understand the nature of the social and sexual domination . |
| 19 | These trays take four or six PP3s ( depending on the model of detector ) which push on to snap terminals in the bottom of the tray . |
| 20 | The boy rolled over and came on to one knee in a single lunge , and hurling himself at the man , caught him round the thighs with both arms , and swept him with him through the opening . |
| 21 | Had n't she just come on to two guys in two days ? |
| 22 | I 've known teachers go on to other posts in the private sector without any trouble after far worse things than you will ever be accused of . |
| 23 | This enhancement leads on to new stages in cognitive complexity : |
| 24 | I am happy here for the time being but want the chance to move on to bigger things in the future . ’ |
| 25 | Place drops of the clear supernatant on to dental wax in a Petri dish as before . |
| 26 | The visiting of the iniquity of their fathers on to succeeding generations in the Third Commandment , the banning of ‘ he that hath a flat nose ’ , and the writing ‘ the fathers have eaten a sour grape and the children 's teeth are set on edge ’ are suggestive of the stigmata of congenital syphilis . |
| 27 | This arrangement is particularly suited to a society where wealth is concentrated in the ownership of land , because it ensures that an undivided estate can be passed on to succeeding generations in the family . |
| 28 | The fabulous museum tells the story of moving images beginning in 2000 BC with shadow puppets through the silent era and the golden age of Hollywood , and on to recent developments in television . |
| 29 | Parties , it is argued , are ‘ forced to latch on to various capacities in order to generate support ’ . |
| 30 | But last Saturday Major climbed on to that soapbox in Luton . |