Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 That 's why we 'd better move on without any delay . ’
2 ‘ Perhaps for the moment we 'd better get on with this search . ’
3 Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification .
4 By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . "
5 But for some reason Alice would not go on with that thought .
6 Perhaps I had better not go on in this way or things will get too mushy and pastoral after all .
7 Warning — you can not cast on in this method .
8 Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one .
9 ‘ Do they always carry on in this fashion ? ’
10 This is certainly the most useful , easily accessible and up-to-date compilation of figures , and it is the one I shall mainly rely on in this book .
11 Let me now go on from this point to comment on the so-called death of biblical fundamentalism .
12 I ca n't carry on with this indecision . ’
13 In the end I told him , ‘ I ca n't go on with this marriage .
14 And then it wo n't go on to this side .
15 I 've put it resting on the dish so that any acid from it does n't get on to that bench there .
16 The matter will therefore drag on for another month until the next management committee meeting , while Ferguson has to continue his return to the first team under awkward circumstances .
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