Example sentences of "on [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , the railways there was a spurt on between in the late sixties on the railway and that 's when I think I was sure , not only because I was a branch secretary at the time but I 'm sure that all the British Railways there was a greater awareness of the fact that we had been deceived by the word nationalization . |
| 2 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 3 | All the families were on for except the three weeks holiday during the year they were marooned on these islands all the time . |
| 4 | Eva needed the knowledge of that power beyond her own to cling on to over the next few months . |
| 5 | The oil mingled with the warm salty water which leaked from places in the ceilings , and that was one of the reasons they had asked for some sort of banister rail to hold on to in the narrow winding-stair . |
| 6 | First , Rousseau 's concept of the ‘ Noble Savage ’ proposed that ‘ savages ’ who lacked the civilizing influence of Western culture were free of mental disorder — and it was this idea that many psychiatrists in England , France and the US latched on to in the late eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries . |
| 7 | Those are the two other issues that I want to get on to in the last part of the programme . |
| 8 | ‘ I stayed up all night to cheer him on to in the presidential election . |
| 9 | Dr Barnardo 's was another charity she took on at about the same time ; this charity has left its old orphanage image behind , and the Princess feels her connections with it have been fruitful . |
| 10 | A LUNCH for close to 90 people , mostly Estate Agents , was held on by on the third floor of ‘ One ’ Great Tower Street ( the old headquarters of ) to mark the completion of the re-development started in January 1989 . |