Example sentences of "on [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Oxford-educated daughter of a Norfolk farmer , she began her career as a local authority education officer and inspector of schools , married a headmaster she met on site — he is now an education administrator — moved on through the ranks of Norfolk County Council and chaired Norwich Health Authority . |
| 2 | Our physical characteristics are handed on through the genes but the far more important part of us , the mental , lives on in the minds and eventually in the memory of the human race . |
| 3 | It continues on through the pages of Scripture to the very last words of the book of Revelation . |
| 4 | Thus , one could take a random sample of the battalions first and then on through the companies and platoons until the actual individual soldiers were sampled only from a limited number of platoons instead of from the whole brigade . |
| 5 | Goods would be unloaded at Lindau , taken across the Bodensee to Rorschach , and from there go on through the passes to the south , to Milan or on to Venice for further shipment . |
| 6 | It is a responsibility passed on through the generations . ’ |
| 7 | It 's a skill passed on through the generations . |
| 8 | The motorspeeder journeyed on through the plains of Sakkrat . |
| 9 | One could almost imagine oneself back into the Middle Ages but for the fact that technology has marched on through the centuries to replace rough-hewn bows of Yew with fibreglass ones , equipped with very advanced sights . |
| 10 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 11 | He went on through the files but found nothing else of interest . |
| 12 | They worked on through the files for the rest of the morning , a routine they had been through so often that they commented mostly in half-sentences or barely audible grunts . |
| 13 | From here , the Westbury Brook flows on through the meadows , towards the Severn , where it once powered Severn Mill , on the river bank . |
| 14 | You continue on through the meadows of Cock marsh — a Site of Special Scientific Interest — to the banks of the Thames . |
| 15 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 16 | Follow the track for a short way until a path leads on through the bogs beside the Allt a ‘ Mhuilinn . |
| 17 | Inexorably Rose moved on through the entremets and coffee , sending eight people scurrying in all directions as he masterminded the performance , the objects of which were far from clear to Auguste . |
| 18 | Yet as they continued on through the shallows so birds wheeled about them in alarm , and creatures shifted in the undergrowth . |
| 19 | So as they continued on through the trees to the fort at Ballingolin , with the blackbirds chittering and the smoke from turf fires coming from the farmhouse inside the castle walls , Gerald Hussey broke the news to his daughter that she would be leaving Ireland . |
| 20 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 21 | I bade Jamie and his mother goodnight and walked on through the outskirts of town to the track heading for the island , then down the track in blackness , sometimes using my small torch , towards the bridge and the house . |
| 22 | Anderson chuckled goodbye and crashed on through the bushes , clink-clink-clinking in search of another rabbit hole . |
| 23 | The newspaper are going on and on and on about the problems that people have road and road . |
| 24 | ‘ One of her lines … as the king … goes on about the Gods not suffering the unpiety of his sister to go unpunished . |
| 25 | The sight of the European Community 's civilised , like-minded nations bickering on about the pros and cons of more joint government , with ethnic war on their doorstep and a great deal to achieve across a newly opened continent , would seem absurd to any visiting Gulliver . |
| 26 | When you were talking earlier on about the bombs and the detonator coming in , where were they stored , at the docks or were they |
| 27 | They go on and on about the nails . ’ |
| 28 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 29 | ‘ He 's just the same , ’ Maggie said and continued on about the nurses ' home while Sheila bit her tongue . |
| 30 | Like my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) , I have personal views about some of those matters , but we should await the report , when we will have a little more to go on about the circumstances and how this could have happened . |