Example sentences of "[noun] [modal v] [vb infin] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All other traffic from this direction should continue on to Coleraine and use the ring road to Ballysally Roundabout . |
| 2 | If you leave gates open animals may stray on to roads , trample crops or get lost . |
| 3 | There are many young women and men in the Black movement who claim that the practice should go on in order to maintain African-traditions . |
| 4 | The second question was whether an increasingly beleaguered Gerry Adams could hold on to West Belfast . |
| 5 | As this chapter will go on to show , a small economically dominant class undoubtedly does still exist in Western societies . |
| 6 | The effect would be that after a complainant gave evidence which the judge thought credible , if the prosecution at that point decided on due reflection to discontinue , the judge could go on to call all the remaining prosecution witnesses himself . |
| 7 | Cornelius would remain on at school until real work could be found for him . |
| 8 | Every day contains more weather than a week in Scotland , and weeks in Scotland can drag on for centuries , believe me ! |
| 9 | Anything which features social interaction could lead on to group discussion of some aspect of communication . |
| 10 | And court cases could drag on for years . |
| 11 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 12 | Still the Japanese refused to surrender and it appeared that the war might drag on for months , even years , at terrible cost . |
| 13 | I knew that on this trip my husband would go on to Oman and Cairo before returning home . |
| 14 | One of the most important gifts a teacher can pass on to pupils is a sense of control over one 's life . |
| 15 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 16 | They reckon investors should hang on to shares in both National Power and Powergen . |
| 17 | With his connections , there was still a good chance Balestre could hang on to power . |
| 18 | After all , there were only two ways that Harry could come on to Grace , the gangplank across from Maurice , on which Stripey lay digesting uneasily , or back to the wharf and round by the afterdeck . |
| 19 | Vincent would move on from evangelist to artist , and the great Russian , determined to live a life modelled on Christ , was beginning to regard all art as frivolous . |
| 20 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 21 | Those trains will travel on to Glasgow and , we hope , beyond . |
| 22 | At the fête Stepan Verkhovensky , the man of the 1840s , makes a speech arguing that Shakespeare matters more than boots , and Raphael more than petroleum ; whipping himself up in his peroration to declare that mankind can get on without bread but not without beauty . |
| 23 | She needed strength : her and Bernard 's nightly love play would go on for hours , limbs lurching and surging in some kind of gladiatorial combat as if the one who weakened first lost . |
| 24 | ‘ A typical Robson team-talk would go on for hours — no wonder the Ipswich lads in the squad had nicknamed him Mogadon . |
| 25 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 26 | They also provided the food and baking would go on for days beforehand . |
| 27 | A long sash window framing a view down , far below , to where she fancied she could almost see the floodlit Verdala Palace and the Buskett Gardens , where the Mnarja would flow on until dawn … |
| 28 | This the speaker can draw on in order to relate new information that s/he wants to convey to elements that are already established in the context . |
| 29 | Within each of these varieties , there is a range of styles which the speaker can draw on in conversation or for other types of talk . |
| 30 | and they are beginning to put a new system in its place so that it , it is beginning to be revolutionary a an and restorat a restorationist approach can lead on to revolution . |