Example sentences of "on [prep] the [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 2 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 3 | We wo n't be able to nod off as news presenters drone on about the world 's woes and mother-in-laws ring with the latest family crisis . |
| 4 | ‘ He 's in there and you 're out here , carrying on for the children 's sake . |
| 5 | Mr Pierre Mauroy , an ex-prime minister and party workhorse , will stay on as the party 's first secretary . |
| 6 | Persons who have knowingly been parties to the carrying on of the company 's business to defraud creditors . |
| 7 | It authorises the carrying on of the licence-holder 's business temporarily in other premises , whilst the premises to which his licence applies are being reconstructed . |
| 8 | Visitors to the Heritage Plaza can enjoy a bird 's eye view of the facilities in on of the centre 's special ‘ armoured ’ cars . |
| 9 | This experience is referred to many times in the Cantos : what its author most values in theory , the weighing of syllables in the line and the leading on of the reader 's breath from one syllable to the next . |
| 10 | Otherwise you would n't be able to carry on behind the Führer 's back . |
| 11 | As one day followed another the garrison could not help wondering what was going on behind the Collector 's closed door . |
| 12 | I climbed a wall to drink at the beck , sitting for a while on its banks in the sun before walking on up the legionaries ' highway crossing the Burtersett road under Green Scar Mire and heading up towards Fleet Moss and Kidhow Gate . |
| 13 | Once through , the tanks would press on into the enemy 's main body , preparing the way for the armoured infantry to clear any remaining opposition . |
| 14 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 15 | Only the sun goes silently and endlessly on with the lark 's song . |
| 16 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 17 | She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere . |
| 18 | He rang back again at once and mistakenly carried on with the Airds ' answering service , not realizing that the woman there had picked up by the time I got to the phone . |
| 19 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 20 | Grade decided that the complaints from parents and teachers that kids were arriving late in class because of the series — not to mention that nagging suspicion that placing Neighbours on before the evening 's news bulletin could be a ratings coup — should be ignored no longer . |
| 21 | It is right that students be initiated into the conceptual apparatus , skills and ways of going on within the teacher 's own discipline ; and it is right that students therefore acquire the discipline required for the necessary understanding and competencies . |
| 22 | It was pretty wonderful to be sitting there watching it all and knowing that I was the only person in the whole school who realised exactly what was going on inside the Trunchbull 's pants . |
| 23 | Forehand and McMahon ( 1981 ) have devised a Parent 's Game which continues on from the Child 's Game described in the previous chapter . |
| 24 | Following on from the IWM 's history of Duxford work , Mary is now getting her teeth into the service history of the IWM/Shuttleworth combined Sea Hurricane I restoration project . |
| 25 | Indeed , following on from the government 's Next Steps agencies ( see below ) , for many government executive operations outturn information in departmental reports will , in future , be supplemented by individual agencies ' annual reports to Parliament . |
| 26 | They take place in the mornings , while the afternoons are given over to discussion groups which follow on from the morning 's lecture . |
| 27 | Following on from the author 's Information Technology and Industrial Policy ( Croom Helm 1984 ) , the research uses a variety of written sources , ranging from government documents to trade papers , coupled with interviews with policy-making personnel . |
| 28 | Most of the specifics , particularly tariffs , are the subject of talks going on in the company 's ATM Customer Advisory Council . |
| 29 | At the end of the tale , the wife underlines this aspect of the merchant 's lifestyle by suggesting that her spending on clothing serves the same purpose : This understanding provides a fundamentally important gloss to the moot , " must " , of the lines spoken , apparently by a female speaker , very early on in the Shipman 's Tale : Both the merchant and the monk in the tale operate by borrowing money on credit in order to make profitable purchases . |
| 30 | So Libet 's experiments tell us something interesting about the information processing going on in the subject 's brain but they tell us nothing about the temporal relationship between physical events — either inside or outside the brain — and conscious experiences . |