Example sentences of "on [prep] the new " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had fetched him for Christmas and he was staying on for the New Year . |
| 2 | They 'll be easing me on as the new presenter so as not to put too much pressure on me . |
| 3 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 4 | After Egypt was conquered by the Persian king Kambyses in 525 BC the Greeks and Karians lost their old employers ; but it is certain from several pieces of evidence that they stayed on under the new management , as distinct ethnic groups , surviving until and beyond the Macedonian takeover in 331 . |
| 5 | In the 1880s Glasgow 's Victorian prosperity was approaching its peak , and the noon-tide of Empire was to witness the arrival of electricity , the cable subway and the electric trams , photography , St Andrew 's halls , the Great Exhibition of 1888 , 1901 , and on into the new century , hospitals , bridges , effort and endeavour . |
| 6 | The calculated , dictated fairness that the ration book represented went on into the new decade , and when we moved from Hammersmith to Streatham Hill in 1951 there were medicine bottles of orange juice and jars of Virol to pick up from the baby clinic for my sister . |
| 7 | Most of them are indeed trying to pull the ‘ off with the old , on with the new ’ wife replacement technique but they are in such an emotional mess that they subconsciously drive away any woman who tries to get close to them . |
| 8 | Until he is off with the old , he can not be on with the new . |
| 9 | Off with the old and on with the new ! |
| 10 | Then put the coin in the slot , please Rex , and we 'll get on with the new plan . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 12 | The French gave support to the Scots who , from very early on in the new reign , caused trouble in the north ; while to the west , in Wales , where Owain Glyn Dŵr was to rise against English rule in 1400 , French troops landed and at one time might have been seen in the Herefordshire countryside . |
| 13 | Most of the Dialogues are about the kind of research carried on in the new laboratories which were becoming a feature of life by the 1870s . |
| 14 | In 1990 out of an intake of 48 on to the new graduates management training course 13 were women , in 1991 this had risen to 30 out of 90 . |
| 15 | Once on the new side , the rig should be thrown well forwards to complete the turn on to the new tack . |
| 16 | Fig 28 Once round on to the new tack , the board is steered on to its new course by leaning the rig forwards . |
| 17 | Welding a bonding cable on to the new rail . |
| 18 | To help users , BOC has made available unaudited schedules that show past published information restated on to the new basis . |
| 19 | Procedures for preparation of tax computations will have to be reviewed to ensure easy transfer of figures on to the new returns . |
| 20 | This should firm the edge fibres on to the new cloth , and form a definite groove along the book . |
| 21 | If you want a conventional light switch to control the new lights , run the sub-circuit cable to a four-terminal junction box first , and connect the new switch cable tin to it before running cable on to the new lights . |
| 22 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |
| 23 | The caterpillars will soon crawl across on to the new leaves . |
| 24 | The first few days were very trying for Alan as he went on to the new regime suddenly rather than gradually . |
| 25 | When the master file is to be reorganized , this ancillary file will be sorted into descending count order , and the records are read from the old direct file and loaded on to the new in this order . |
| 26 | He twitched his shoulders as if shrugging the burden of Georgina on to the new arrival . |
| 27 | Here , depressive feelings associated with the originators of agriculture — the weaning mothers of the first , and every , cultivating generation — seem to have become displaced on to the new subsistence-pattern itself . |
| 28 | it 's all because of this change of money you see and then when we get on to the new |
| 29 | It must have been then that the two coaches came to light because we moved house in 1925 and quite certainly the coaches were never at the old house but appeared very early on at the new one . |
| 30 | No doubt spurred on by the new Pillar and Gable guide Steve Reid teamed up with John Campbell and visited Pillar , adding Gorre , E1 5b , 5b , 4c , which takes a direct line between Charybdis and Goth on the Low Man West Face . |