Example sentences of "they [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 2 | During the 1980s , there has been a marked decline in the proportion of secondary students who gain the Sudan School Certificate which enables them to go on to higher education or enter the civil service . |
| 3 | Agreeing with something someone else has said is a powerful way to encourage them to go on and say more . |
| 4 | They 're too embarrassed to actually part with them and so you have this very difficult decision as to whether to insist that you have their laundry or whether you allow them to go on doing that , causing them to live in a smelly environment . |
| 5 | them to Go on |
| 6 | It may be hard for them to go on giving warmth and understanding love amidst the euphoria and excitement that can surround the search for the birth parents and their possible discovery . |
| 7 | At first , the payment entitled them to go on receiving food-subsidy coupons from the team , even though they were no longer working for it . |
| 8 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 9 | ‘ After all , you ca n't expect them to go on saying yes for ever . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 11 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 12 | She wanted them to go on being friends — if this cold formality was friendship — because anything was better than never seeing him again . |
| 13 | Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century . |
| 14 | Only one day , but nevertheless it 's something that they will always remember and hopefully it will be just a spur for them to go on and do better things . |
| 15 | Because they have been treated more as adults here , the contrast between this and ordinary school makes it sometimes difficult for them to return and adapt to being treated as children again , so it is obviously preferable for them to continue on at the unit . |
| 16 | Yesterday 's report says : ‘ The attractions of granting a licence , as a shield against accusations that the Department had — with the knowledge that the partnership was unlicensed — allowed them to carry on taking investors ’ money , were allowed to cloud the thinking within the Department . ’ |
| 17 | Community psychiatric nurses provide a vital service to the elderly mentally infirm enabling them to carry on living at home through the provision of medication and support . |
| 18 | God sent the Spirit of Jesus to his followers in order to equip them to carry on the mission of his Son in the world . |
| 19 | They had both turned as she had entered , and she had the stupid urge to tell them to carry on , she hoped she was n't interrupting anything . |
| 20 | You would expect them to carry on doing that . |
| 21 | The tips of the fingers and toes are equipped with sucker-like discs that help them to cling on , and the long tail is used as a balance and brake when leaping from branch to branch . |
| 22 | ‘ Do n't let them rattle on ; when you have had enough , smile sweetly , say ‘ many thanks ’ and we 'll switch off the lights . ’ |
| 23 | They would let them stay on until they married and got farms of their own , because , perhaps , their own home circumstances would not be very good . |
| 24 | The professor was asked out to preach in mining parishes ; and he discovered that , despite the views of the Bishop of Lincoln and the teenagers of St Benet 's that he was unintelligible in a pulpit , he could feel them hanging on his words . |
| 25 | THE danger of trying to limp to safety on goalless draws was graphically illustrated by Coventry 's last-gasp defeat which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 26 | Coventry slumped to a last-gasp 1–0 defeat at Notts County which could have them hanging on to the last day of the season before knowing their fate . |
| 27 | A draw against the Italians at Ibrox will keep them hanging on , while defeat would surely end that proud sequence . |
| 28 | There were rows of them hanging on hooks , and stacks of them leaning against one another on the floor . |
| 29 | Beautiful women , dressed in anything from the flamboyantly obvious to the understatedly elegant , weaved in and out of the crowds , some of them hanging on the arms of men old enough to be their grandfathers . |
| 30 | Just the two of them hanging on in that decaying old house , ’ Schellenberg said . |