Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also keen to press on with modernising the party 's policy-making machinery , a process which took a jump forward yesterday when delegates approved an executive consultation paper on the block vote and reform of the conference . |
| 2 | In early 1855 he intended to press on after assessing the degree of continuing Anglo-French hostility and the extent to which the Sultan 's Christian subjects had rallied to his banner . |
| 3 | I believe that the public want us to get on with abolishing the community charge and replacing it with the council tax . |
| 4 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 5 | ‘ Instead , we should keep out of things and allow the experts to get on with running The Arts Centre . |
| 6 | The problem is very much a private one and I hope Graham will now be left alone to get on with leading the team on this tour . ’ |
| 7 | I sought to explain to him then and before that we not only need to sort out finance but to get on with distributing the food that they can grow , with the production of the food that they do not grow , and sort out their system of feeding the people . |
| 8 | well , they want us to move on to developing the policies which have addressed the changed world . |