Example sentences of "then on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At last we are going aboard a tank-landing craft : I slip off my rucksack , assemble the bagpipes , a couple of minutes to tune up , then on with the rucksack and we march on to the craft to the tune Highland Laddie .
2 A warning would be given , up stumps and all would wait for it to pass then on with the game .
3 Captured by Blackfoot or Atsina Indians when accompanying buffalo-hunters to Montana in the late eighteenth century , she was sold to eastern Indians and then on to a French-Canadian at Red River .
4 I use an overdrive pedal first ( only slightly overdriving ) , then on to a BOSS delay and then a wah-wah .
5 She was bum up in the air , small head to one side ‘ gnawing her way through Donald 's portion and then on to the rest of the poisoned carcass of the chicken , which Henry added to her plate .
6 It was n't even properly on the Foulness road , but a track from the road led to it , and then on to the camp ; about a quarter of a mile away .
7 I suppose the most regular walk I do around Malham begins and ends at the village itself , going first by Janet 's Foss to Gordale Scar then on to the Tarn and back by the Cove .
8 We were scheduled to fly out over East Anglia and the North Sea , crossing the coast of Holland and then on to the Ruhr as far as Cologne , returning over the same route .
9 A quick cup of tea with Ewen and then on to the Loganair Twin Otter which slithered up the slushy runway and took the over-sea route to avoid the worst weather en route to Barra stopping at Benbecula .
10 Then we 'd come back to the digs , wash our hair , have a wash if we were lucky , then on to the theatre .
11 It 's straight into make-up as the experts behind-the-scenes work a little magic , then on to the wardrobe department for that all-important on-screen outfit .
12 All lighting circuits are radial ones — that is one cable goes from the fuseway in the consumer unit to the first light position , and then on to the second , and so on to the last on the circuit .
13 They went there in the middle of that morning , passing through the gate in the garden wall and along the cliff-path for a few hundred yards and then on to the golf-course .
14 No patients would be identified and the information would be confidentially passed to the British Medical Association and then on to the Home Office .
15 Now you may want to leave everything to your surviving spouse and then on to the children , that 's natural .
16 Then on to the Cafe Central for lunch .
17 We could start with the Coromandel Peninsula , then on to the East Cape and the ‘ King Country ’ in the heart of the North Island , ideal for cycling and with superb colours in autumn .
18 I 'd flown for the first time , out to Malta in an old , rattling York aircraft , and then on to the Canal one .
19 Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices .
20 UCCA then have to process it , they create a computer record , they photocopy it , and pass those papers then on to the universities .
21 Much of the film shows the painter simply going about his task , first scratching outlines on parchment and then on to the canvas .
22 As she headed for the path that crossed the garden to the pool and then on to the pine forest and olive grove , she heard one solitary , impassioned call that hung hauntingly in the hot air .
23 It would roll around on the carpet , then leap on to the piano and then on to the pianist 's lap , where it would start licking the hands that played the magic notes .
24 Not looking at the cows , but keeping her eyes fixed straight ahead , she pushed her bike past them and then on to the footpath .
25 He swerved and avoided the worst of the impact , but was catapulted on to the bonnet of the car and then on to the pavement .
26 Stage migration occurs when a peasant moves to a provincial town for some time and then on to the city .
27 A pleasant week in the Bristol Channel when we reached Bristol once more , then on to the Scillies in a nasty little summer gale , finally reaching Southampton at the end of June .
28 I imagined his grandfather leading his tribe as it migrated from Al Ain to Abu Dhabi , then on to the Liwa and beyond towards Qatar .
29 As they lifted him on to a stretcher and then on to the jeep the blanket slipped away from his shoulders revealing his red hair and a very white arm covered in freckles .
30 ‘ Stephen , we promised to go to Danny and Pauline 's for drinks and then on to the Bagatelle . ’
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