Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] thing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle Titch just shrugged and got on with the important things in life . |
| 2 | hold on to a finished thing ? |
| 3 | Well why 's he got on like a big thing round his neck , a ruff . |
| 4 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 5 | I was going on with it , all the bumps were okay but when I was actually inside the building again I hung on to GrandPat to get to the steps but my hand slipped so I was going round with the current so I tried to hold on to the orange thing that they had put there but I slipped off that and I kept on going round and the lifeguard gave erm me and somebody else a hoop and we both grabbed onto it |
| 6 | Erm , right on the expenditure side we have our normal subscriptions for the year , A S erm the F B A S which you all know , there 's no strangers here who do n't know what these are the A L A and the Whale and Dolphin er Preservation Society which we have taken on as a personal thing in the , in the er name of the club because it 's cheaper |
| 7 | Quick to latch on to a good thing , the Taiwanese have already started to adopt the All Black style of play . |