Example sentences of "on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you carry on through New Polzeath , Polzeath and Trebetherick the path emerges at Daymer Bay . |
| 2 | A male 's vigour in display may also indicate to the female a mate with whose genes hers can mix with a high chance of being passed on through future generations . |
| 3 | ‘ And I just do n't see the point of pressing on through that muck . ’ |
| 4 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 5 | They 're waterproof , too , and stay on through vigorous activity . |
| 6 | The extra costs of £9.60 a year per household are thought likely to be passed on through local taxation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In Southall bussing and reception classes go on through secondary school . |
| 9 | It was going on through this song it 's ni , bur bur bur bur bur scratch right across the C D. |
| 10 | A social worker can support the family in hanging on through this pain , to recognise the major part still to be played . |
| 11 | Then you ring Dial-A-Ticket ( 0532–710710 ) which is generally engaged , so you re-dial at frequent intervals till you get through to a recorded ticket office girl blotering on about similar information . |
| 12 | ‘ And Maggie 's always on about Victorian values , ’ I persisted , ‘ the sanctity of the family group — ‘ |
| 13 | I should have something to say later on about future care by Mr . |
| 14 | It could be that er he wishes to distract attention between the interesting arguments going on about one man one vote which I 'm pleased to hear that Mr has won . |
| 15 | Life has arisen on about one planet per galaxy ( in our galaxy , Earth is the lucky planet ) . |
| 16 | On about all blacks . |
| 17 | When you were on about that love , what pa was saying about , you know , like every night , that our kids , when , they had their pyjamas on , and they 're like , to get hold , I 'm lying watching television , I 'm usually falling asleep , but I put the kids , you know . |
| 18 | Some of it was on about that man there , face got her to stay the night then he was gon na watch it on telly in the er lounge . |
| 19 | It looks like you know what you 're talking about , does n't mean you do but i I mean if you use th if you if you start going on about that thing that there is er when some what on earth ? |
| 20 | Tied in questions , they , they usually ask , you know I went on to you on , on about tied ins , right , did n't you , has n't it , would n't you , right , would n't you prefer , would n't you rather , right , if you could would n't you . |
| 21 | He went on about various things but I only half heard him . |
| 22 | Chainsaw guitars , bonecrusher drums , some bloke yammering on about serial killers … a sound that could only come from one place . |
| 23 | She was on about general conversation , you should have it on the whole time . |
| 24 | Horses wo n't be airsick all over your lap ; they do n't drone on about overbooked hotels , or insist on playing Scrabble to pass the time . |
| 25 | So when she was going on about Nigerian boys , I said , " So what , if I went out with this guy , you 'd be lucky if he stayed with me . " |
| 26 | It was all very well going on about pure logic and how the universe was ruled by logic and the harmony of numbers , but the plain fact of the matter was that the disc was manifestly traversing space on the back of a giant turtle and the gods had a habit of going round to atheists ' houses and smashing their windows . |
| 27 | This is n't a political or geographical question , and I 'm not going to ramble on about environmental issues . |
| 28 | She was allowed to talk about herself if he was allowed to rave on about black men . |
| 29 | He 's going on about damn baths at the moment . |
| 30 | No she does to you though cos she 's always going on about other people talking about other people . |