Example sentences of "on at [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 2 | You do n't need any further underwriting to carry on at that level , but you can do . |
| 3 | I sat on a committee chaired by Paul Fox , a big representative steering group for the Royal Television Society 's Biennial Cambridge Convention ( the only woman ) , which he had asked me to be on at that time . |
| 4 | ‘ There were certain shows on at that time such as Bric-a-Brac ( Palace ) Vanity Fair ( Palace ) , The Bing Boys ( Alhambra ) . |
| 5 | Well I think it was just because of the the people who put the pressure on at that time , perhaps people who 'd been in the tenants association before , did n't see that as a priority . |
| 6 | And the cruise she was on at that time — well , that was to convalesce after a very serious operation , although , ’ he added wryly , ‘ she would probably kill me for mentioning it . |
| 7 | How many p people d di did he take on at that time then , when he first took over ? |
| 8 | Well it was on at that time I was dropping pancakes and crumpets and the manager come up one morning and said that there was running late . |
| 9 | But they were n't totally happy — for it was confirmed that the interrogation of the prisoner — going on at that moment — would reveal where the stuff had gone . |
| 10 | Yeah Wonder why the police car put its lights on at that moment . |
| 11 | How did you get on at that wedding ? |
| 12 | where you 're just watching , helping , washing a few cups with somebody and , and then going on a course one or two days a week , and then you 're consider whether being took on and even if you 're not took on at that place at least you 've got something to say you 've done when you 're |
| 13 | If we carry on at that rate , and growth is actually accelerating , we will be the largest private motor insurer in two years . |
| 14 | If an organiser does not co-ordinate and monitor and know exactly what 's going on at each stage , then ultimately he has only himself to blame if something goes wrong . |
| 15 | Yeah , good job you 've got hay ni you 've got hay net on at each horse , you know . |
| 16 | For most Southern advertisers and agencies , however , 1993 will be a year of hanging on at any cost . |
| 17 | It 's rather like a trip on the Circle Line ; you can get on at any point really , and you 'll get to the fridge , or the move , or the school fees sooner or later and then back to the beginning again . |
| 18 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 19 | I spoke later to Jackie , lifeboat secretary , and asked him how many of a crew he had to call on at any time . |
| 20 | LITTLE ROUSILLON : Always prominent , kept on at same pace final furlong 3l 5th to Lochsong ( Newbury 7f , Gd ) . |
| 21 | In section 11.3 it was stressed that the Laplace transform of a signal is pertinent to practical situations in which the signal is switched on at some instant . |
| 22 | A corollary of this last point is that the technique is likely to succeed when the signal is switched on at some moment to which the time origin may be ascribed , the inference being that the signal is zero up to time . |
| 23 | There was a metal grab bar and two bolts on the outside , one at the top , which could have had padlocks on at some time , to keep playful kids out . |
| 24 | As for the future , well , I suppose I 'll have to move on at some time but for the moment I 'm quite happy at the theatre . |
| 25 | He goes on at some length referring to the machinery used for scribbling , spinning , fulling etc , all of these processes carried out under one roof . |
| 26 | It goes on at some length to persuade people not to climb up this waterfall and muck about in it . |
| 27 | She carried on at some length , and felt better for it afterwards . |
| 28 | He went on at some length about the idiocy of the strategic bombing of Germany and how the Red Army had won the war in Europe . |
| 29 | He went on at some length , complete with the appropriate gestures and noises , on his experiences as a car jockey in a parking garage : other people 's cars were part of his early training as a driver and , like every Italian kid his age , he had had a burning admiration for grand prix racing and the great heroes of his day , especially Alberto Ascari . |
| 30 | He went on at some length , with a slightly exaggerated middle-class accent , to enthuse over the pleasures of privileged country living . |