Example sentences of "and on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had kept on and on about those keys , although she had been deaf to his insistence ; he had come several miles to catch her at home and seize a chance to rifle her bag for them ; if there had been any purpose to the meeting at the Old Mitre it might have been to get the keys . |
| 2 | Sorry to go on and on about this backing up business , but it 's much better to do it than to end up losing information ( and I write as someone who has done just that in the past ; of course I 'm perfect now ) . |
| 3 | I mean that because Deborah kept going on and on and on about this three hour thing did n't she ? |
| 4 | In fact there is little natural water hereabouts ; what there is usually disappears down cracks and fissures , tumbling down sunless waterfalls and on through subterranean channels to reappear some distance lower down in the valleys . |
| 5 | You dip down the drive from the Yoxford to Peasenhall road across an ornamental bridge and on towards this plain and golden Greek Revival house . |
| 6 | They would go on and on at great speed . |
| 7 | Went on and on at this young lad who 'd spoken who thumped him he 'd apparently just one punch , I do n't know but but anyway all the charges have been dropped against this lad now so |
| 8 | Others will continue across the Mediterranean , over the Sahara and on into southern Africa . |
| 9 | They went through it and on into another room where there was more daylight . |
| 10 | Perhaps she would simply lead him on and on into some dark chamber of doubt and fear . |
| 11 | And friendship with Clan Diarmaid , that we 've been fighting off and on for five generations ! |
| 12 | These lights are in one-to-one relationships with certain key registers of the machine and actually express the binary numbers in them ( a light being off for 0 and on for 1 ) . |
| 13 | When the pass came and I had arranged for a fortnight 's holiday I travelled to the Pacific coast in a day coach : overnight to Calgary , and on for another 24 hours through the glorious panorama of the Rockies to Burrard Inlet , English Bay and Stanley Park , Vancouver . |
| 14 | The arrests gave Seth a record of at least nine drink driving incidents , leading the judge to order him into Alcoholics Anonymous and on to two years ' probation . |
| 15 | The share of personal assets owned by the 90 per cent below the richest 10 per cent has dramatically increased from 8 per cent in 1911 to 17 per cent in 1960 , and on to 46 per cent in 1983 . |
| 16 | And on to sixty five . |
| 17 | I climbed through the Megger Stones and on to Great Coum looking down Dentdale and Deepdale . |
| 18 | The fabulous museum tells the story of moving images beginning in 2000 BC with shadow puppets through the silent era and the golden age of Hollywood , and on to recent developments in television . |
| 19 | In his most recent work , he has moved away from elaborate vessels and on to rough-textured jigsaw-like pieces — the ceramicist 's equivalent of collage . |
| 20 | His passengers were all shaken and some were thrown from their seats and on to each other . ’ |
| 21 | From the crest turn left and follow the length of the ridge , over Blea Rigg to Sergeant Man and on to High White Stones ( 4.5 miles ) . |
| 22 | E. Harwich has become a ferry port , or packet station , mainly for passengers to the Hook of Holland and on to northern Europe and West Germany . |
| 23 | And on to any other business . |
| 24 | Not only is there a great depth to the pressure for change , but it also exists on an enormously wide number of fronts — from the National Curriculum through assessment and on to open enrolment and the local management of schools and ( for some ) beyond that to grant maintained status or other ‘ exotics ’ . |
| 25 | That means that if they only take the score card then you 're in there fairly quickly do the advertising sales and come out and on to another site . |
| 26 | Whittering on and on like that , you sound like a blooming Lefty ! |
| 27 | And it goes on and on like this until the voice is erm , I ca n't feel anything any more . |
| 28 | The causal thread that reaches from the perceived object to the perception and on from that to the overt activity of the perceiver symbolizes the ontological homogeneity of the world . |
| 29 | Because he had the right attitude , he did n't quibble , he did n't moan he did n't criticize , he just got on with the job , and is n't that a little area that we can all work on somewhere , it comes down to that little bit of territory even , does n't it , if we 're given in the ministry and we say oh not there again , I worked that last time , I know that person in that house they 're all working , called on them and when they , I just do n't get , I just do n't get on with them , they 're not me at all , you see , we , we can go on and on in all kinds of areas ca n't we in the truth , but what an attitude to have and I thought this was a lovely expression here , look , erm , on page twenty seven , just about a third of the way down on the right hand side , he says as I have opportunity , I encourage new ones at that , that would take advantage of all privileged service , they 're given , and to learn to be content , and happy with it and just in the next paragraph at the end he says be happy and content in your present circumstances and blossom in a spiritual way in the soil where you are planted is n't that a lo a lovely expression , does n't that show a man who is spiritually alive and alert and awake , and is n't that how we should be , would n't the congregation flow and move along forward , so much better and more unitedly if we all have that lovely attitude that Jehovah service , no matter what it is , we ca n't all be public speakers , we ca n't all be giving a public talk at the district assembly can we ? |