Example sentences of "on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember Morris willing me on through a mist of deep deep unconsciousness . |
| 2 | They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid . |
| 3 | The path , waymarked and cleared , led on through a boulder field . |
| 4 | Carry on through a strip of woodland and over a second stile . |
| 5 | Gradually her technique improved , and Water Gypsy glided on through a country solitude of farms and fields . |
| 6 | Not that he was succeeding ; Sergeant Crane was sitting , legs crossed , only just not fidgeting , as Bruce Davidson wore on through a lot of unnecessary detail . |
| 7 | Mrs Willmot was now going on about a film evening in October : ‘ I thought you could lay on some nature things — I know that 's your forte . ’ |
| 8 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 9 | Martha , whose head was as strong as her sister 's , sometimes climbed up as well , and , clinging on about a foot lower down , read aloud from a horror comic . |
| 10 | Well they got a Sierra she 's on about a Fiat . |
| 11 | On the radio whenever Leeds have possession they seem to waffle on about a load of bollocks . |
| 12 | I thought I thought you were on about a book that |
| 13 | On about a spider |
| 14 | The next thing he recalled after that was waking up in hospital and this man with bandaged fingers in the next bed rambling on about a duffle-coat and how he 'd been bitten by a wolf . |
| 15 | ‘ In fact I 've heard Mauleverer going on about a tripe restaurant in Paris . ’ |
| 16 | I know he w she were on about a room were n't she ? |
| 17 | Yeah Craigy were on about a bus , a bus and erm little'un said bus . |
| 18 | Chorlton , mhm , he examined me , erm , he , he said now they were on about a slide on my heart . |
| 19 | I was on two bags a day when I went to see me GP and I was on between a quarter and half a gram when I got to the hospital . |
| 20 | Of the other large groups of courses , PGCE Primary students on between a quarter and a third of the courses received little on The Language of Specialist Subjects , Standard Language , Accent and Dialect , Bilingualism and Multilingualism , and Classroom Research . |
| 21 | The real loss of life occurred on the evening of 4 December when a group of insurgents , accompanied by a crowd who had apparently come along to watch events , was fired on during a panic reaction on the part of the soldiers . |
| 22 | The work hummed on for a while . |
| 23 | So the merger boom went on for a while , still fuelled by this false belief . |
| 24 | ‘ Yeah , it 's a collection of tunes that I 've been working on for a while . |
| 25 | In April 1990 an all-out battle between Bègles and Montferrand raged on for a while before the referee could stop the slaughter . |
| 26 | I struggled on for a while , but I know my limitations when it comes to design , especially as we have grown to expect a high standard in QP . |
| 27 | This sort of banter went on for a while . |
| 28 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 29 | Fergus drove on for a while . |
| 30 | The Shah said that he was staying on for a while , not flying immediately either to the States back to Egypt . |