Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 2 | ‘ You did n't exactly carry on like a pacifist yourself , ’ she retorted evasively , mouth reproachful . |
| 3 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 4 | It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer . |
| 5 | The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision . |
| 6 | However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester . |
| 7 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 8 | You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable . |
| 9 | But generational time can gradually lead on to an appreciation of dates and time-lines . |
| 10 | It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years . |
| 11 | A company employing ten workers might lay off two in bad times ; ten self-employed workers would probably carry on with a 20% reduction in their turnover rather than voluntarily go on the dole . |
| 12 | We 'll now move on to an amendment standing in the name of Councillor . |
| 13 | Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms . |
| 14 | Workers need to have factual knowledge about HIV/AIDS which they can accurately pass on to a child to give the child a full picture of what is involved . |
| 15 | Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off |
| 16 | ‘ He says he wo n't go on without a warm-up act first . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ You ca n't go on to a talk show and talk about the plots of the books . |
| 18 | It may make for some good headlines , but De Niro certainly does n't come on like a tycoon , talking about his company as not so much a business , more an ‘ artistic community ’ where people can freely exchange ideas . |
| 19 | Graham Taylor 's battling heroes could not quite hold on for a win that would have allowed the beleaguered England manager to say ‘ Nuts ’ to his critics . |
| 20 | Although Mr Brown , the anti-establishment populist , failed to come close to his win over Mr Clinton in Connecticut two weeks ago , he will undoubtedly fight on as a spoiler until the final primary in California in June . |