Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years . |
| 2 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 4 | ‘ Do you want to go on with the lesson , or stand about talking all day long ? ’ |
| 5 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 6 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 7 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 8 | Speaking after delivering an emotional tribute to his party workers , he said : ‘ There 's a great deal of serious reflection that has to go on in the opposition parties , but I 've no doubt that most of the reflection has to take place within Labour and it has to take place on the subject of PR . |
| 9 | Next year , I want to carry on with the course , and do my Highers as well . ’ |
| 10 | Now she 's selling , but nobody wants to carry on with the music.Debbie Kelly reports . |
| 11 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 12 | Mr Thomas stressed that this is the area that WACC-Asia needs to concentrate on in the months to come . |
| 13 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 14 | But I want to hold on to the role . ’ |
| 15 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 16 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 17 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 18 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 19 | ‘ Let's face it , the Olympics are only once every four years and I want to stay on until the end . ’ |
| 20 | King wants to think on about the time Steve Cooper threw his shirt at him . |
| 21 | I just could n't wait to get on with the athletics . |
| 22 | If they already have some practical knowledge they will be itching to get on to the floor ! |
| 23 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 24 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 25 | They want to get on with the job , and are afraid of what a former Archbishop of York , Stuart Blanch , has described as ‘ analysis paralysis ’ setting in . |
| 26 | Mind you , she asks a lot of questions which tend to drive you insane when you want to get on with the job , and sometimes I used words not heard in the best society . |
| 27 | Alison Rubenstein discovered at an early age that if you want to get on in the world and have a good career , hard work is not enough — qualifications can also be a great help . |
| 28 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 29 | However , despite the mortality of L3 on the pasture it now seems that many survive in the soil for at least another year and on occasion appear to migrate on to the herbage . |
| 30 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |