Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I really must get on with other things . ’ |
| 2 | Okay well next week we 'll carry on with this material , looking at communication networks . |
| 3 | The content of the new journalism was appalling but at least it indicated that the masses could read and apart from being useful that offered the prospect that readers might move on to better things . |
| 4 | Right we 'll move on to five point four . |
| 5 | We 'll go on with routine procedure for now . ’ |
| 6 | If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins . |
| 7 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 8 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 9 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 10 | ‘ … it wo n't really be dying , because you 'll live on in this plant . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 12 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 13 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 14 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 15 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 16 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 17 | Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 18 | Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven . |
| 19 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 20 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 21 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 22 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 23 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
| 24 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 25 | If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut . |
| 26 | ‘ Then you could get on with real issues such as a transport policy instead of a scheme to privatise it . |
| 27 | ‘ I never could get on with those people ; they appear entirely obsessed with sex . |
| 28 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 29 | The exploitation of land and animals has gone on far too long — after fifty years of experimentation , let's move on to better things . |
| 30 | O K , let's move on to maximum benefit . |