Example sentences of "on [prep] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The authority had coincidentally tested the water for toxins on about the same day as the officer cadets had used it . |
| 2 | I 'm on on about the same subject . |
| 3 | He was quite capable of building a locomotive as I have a working steam model threshing engine , on about the same scale , that also came from the old office . ’ |
| 4 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 5 | Later on during the same meeting I was attached to another working group whose task it was to revise the standard format of what was then called the ‘ Summary of the Report ’ . |
| 6 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 7 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 8 | Mm , it carries on of the same account there then he said to the army officer you see |
| 9 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 10 | There is slightly more to go on with the latter however , and one seems justified in presuming the work of at least two men . |
| 11 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 12 | It is possible to go on with the same therapist to deal with the problems which caused you to need the regression experience in the first place . |
| 13 | It was sewn with coarse grass and carefully mended with leather patches stitched on with the same coarse grass . |
| 14 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 15 | But it had become impossible for Mr Major to plod on with the same soiled team . |
| 16 | Following on from the former Premier Zhou Enlai , Deng began an ambitious programme of economic reforms . |
| 17 | The society-s proposal to convert the church into dwellings followed on from the same sponsor 's conversion of a similar local and redundant Anglican church , St James 's , Knatchbull Road , Stockwell Park . |
| 18 | A grant from the Theatre Trust should ensure plays put on in the former church now Saltburn 's Community Centre no longer literally bring the house down . |
| 19 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 20 | He ran on in the latter stages , but never looked likely to justify heavy support in the betting market . |
| 21 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 22 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 23 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 24 | This way of thinking is not reasonable , yet we carry on in the same way , generation after generation , never learning by our past mistakes . |
| 25 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 26 | She paused and then went on in the same proud tone she had used when she showed them the bathroom , ‘ Mr Evans is a very important man . |
| 27 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 28 | He said he just carried on in the same direction . |
| 29 | Fast on its heels came MacPublisher and Ready-Set-Go but somehow neither caught on in the same way . |
| 30 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |