Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] on [prep] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay well next week we 'll carry on with this material , looking at communication networks . |
| 2 | If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ … it wo n't really be dying , because you 'll live on in this plant . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 12 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 13 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 14 | Let's go on to another subject which is another subject we 'll be dealing with today . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 17 | There was no doubt that the Liberals would press on with this timetable , and little doubt that the Labour and Irish MPs would support them ; Unionists could not therefore stop Home Rule becoming law . |
| 18 | I thought I would go on in that job — hairdressing . |
| 19 | She would get on with some work , she told herself firmly . |
| 20 | Crump — this would provide an opportunity for a salving weep — Crump would live on for this child herself one day would bear children … |
| 21 | He would come round on his cycle just lean up against the er lamppost and push a long pole u underneath the , the lights the lamp itself the glass , and of course the lamp would come on off this pole |
| 22 | If it had been properly heated it would slip on without any trouble . |
| 23 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 24 | However , there is a sense in which the particles that make up your body will carry on into another universe . |
| 25 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 26 | From Table 6.4 , 99.86 per cent of records will be stored in their home cylinder and only 0.14 per cent will overflow on to another cylinder . |
| 27 | It will go on for another while anyway we hope . |
| 28 | precisely Mr Chairman if I could answer that the , the , the once the inspector comes back to the Fire Service and reports again and he is due back in June , we will then look at the matters he raises at that time and he will look at the progress report er what , what has happened since his last inspection and then we will have the opportunity to look at what the Inspector has , has to say after his visits , not very far away er , their Chief Officer will go on with this programme |
| 29 | er , erm , speaking in favour of the motion against the amendment , quite strongly against the amendment because I do n't believe it moves that debate any further and the debate , as a number of speakers have said , will go on beyond this chamber , Chair . |
| 30 | The processes that have been described will go on in any event . |