Example sentences of "on [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Prowling on through the foul open area , wrapped in such pleasant fantasies , I almost failed to see the furtive movement on the edge of my vision . |
2 | The exhibition continues into twentieth-century painting with works of Futurism , the Cubist-Futurist Russians , American Cubism , Precisionism represented by Charles Demuth and Charles Sheeler and thence on through the various transformations that the art of this century has seen . |
3 | We wandered past the Delhi Gate and on through the crumbling streets of Old Delhi ; as we went , Pakeezah stared sadly around her . |
4 | Before that time , knowledge and wisdom were passed on through the spoken word , as they still are in much of the world . |
5 | Patronage did not die out with industrialization ; it lived on through the honorific offices of county clubs and national bodies . |
6 | THE pathetic objections voiced by the Lords to allowing peerages to pass on through the female line really rammed home to me how outmoded this institution is . |
7 | The trial ground on through the long hot summer in Pretoria . |
8 | With a path to walk on through the long ‘ now ’ of summer . |
9 | ‘ Where are we going ? ’ she asked , as the car moved smoothly down the road and then on through the small village just beyond . |
10 | I told the stationer I 'd be back for my parcel , and wandered on through the cold sunny streets . |
11 | He urged them on through the mounting waves until they too reached the Rebecca , and he was able to ram one hole , fill it with pitch , then another , and another , round the hull beneath the overhang of the bows , in a rain of missiles , with fire sizzling around him , and his fellow fighters hanging on , hoping for the moment when the timbers would be ablaze . |
12 | By this time Paddy seemed to be quite enjoying himself as we trotted on through the silent , thistle-filled fields edged with woods . |
13 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
14 | They walked on through the driving rain . |
15 | It was at about this time that the Duke of Devonshire created the splendid avenue of lime trees which started beside some large houses — Afton House ; Bolton House and Linden House — on the south side of Chiswick High Road , and extending down to the northern boundary of Chiswick House grounds , sweeping on through the magnificent wrought-iron gates , at the end of Hogarth Lane , and continuing through the gardens to the house . |
16 | The Inspector pushed on through the unfamiliar undergrowth , ‘ 1965 to 1972 , Priest in charge , St James 's Malta ; 1973 to 1980 , Priest in charge , St George 's Monte Regia ; 1982 to 1987 , Vicar of St Ermyntrude Warnford Parva ; 1987 , Rector , St Benet Oldfield with St Nicholas Nether Oldfield . ’ |
17 | It was the end of a trail which had had its beginnings in those first rumblings of Henry Fairlie against the Establishment and Malcolm Muggeridge against the Monarchy ; a trail that had led on through the Angry Young Men and all the resentments sown by Suez , through the heyday of affluence , through all the mounting impatience with convention , tradition and authority that had been marked by the teenage revolution and the CND and the New Morality , through the darkening landscape of security scandals and What 's Wrong With Britain and the rising aggression and bitterness of the satirists , in ever more violent momentum . |
18 | For mile after mile the car ran on through the shadowy rubber groves where the straight-trunked trees with herringbone scars and metal latex cups stretched unendingly into the distance on either side of the road . |
19 | It has been suggested that starting in mid Devonian times and continuing on through the Carboniferous , a mid European ocean of uncertain width extended roughly along the line of the English Channel and then on eastwards into the European continent . |
20 | ‘ Do n't worry , ’ he said , skipping on through the amateur boxing and back around to the broadcast channels again . |
21 | I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt . |
22 | I wan na say on that question we were talking about earlier on about the young people and some facilities for them . |
23 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Lydia , sitting up , ‘ it was Beuno who went on about the golden emerods . ’ |
24 | Zoya rattled on about the appalling queue , and some interesting gossip she 'd picked up there , but Anna cut her short , saying she was busy and would see her later . |
25 | This ex-rugger international has , for reasons best known to himself , tired of rambling on about the oval ball game ; as a consequence he has taken to bespattering the media with stories about his allegedly ‘ sexy ’ life and times in terms which strive risibly to emulate the writings of the greatest rock journalist in the world — just like practically everyone else in the media has been muscling in on my territory in recent times . |
26 | I went on about the other woman , how she looked and what she was like in bed . |
27 | So , she starts quizzing me and I start nattering on about the bloody Brontes — I think Mrs Fleming must 've been really intelligent when she was young , honest-to-god she was firing them at me faster than Bamber Gascoigne , she says to me : ‘ And tell me , Karen , how are you going to deal with the themes of Repressed Sexuality in the Brontes ' work ? ’ |
28 | Stop go stop going on about the bloody microphone ! |
29 | We wo n't know till tomorrow what sort of dog 's breakfast they 'll dish up out of it , but they were waffling on about the poor little guinea-pig baby . |
30 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |