Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wanted to carry on as an airborne soldier , a paratrooper , enjoying the prestige which came from being part of an elite , and also the better pay and training opportunities that were the lot of such units . |
| 2 | Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group . |
| 3 | Trying to carry on with the normal routine while suffering from depression has been likened to driving a car in top gear with the brakes full on . |
| 4 | Those who care for ‘ ordinary ’ old people learn much about the courage and competence which so many display ; they discover that it is their ordinariness which is remarkable — their determination to carry on with the daily business of life , often in the face of considerable difficulties . |
| 5 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 6 | and erm , it is therefore in those circumstances foolhardy in my opinion to carry on with the British Assessment Programme at the present rate when the effects on our roads are likely to be so drastic |
| 7 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 8 | There were insufficient funds for a third appointment so that Allan Hayhurst had to carry on in an honourary capacity combining once again the offices of Secretary and Treasurer . |
| 9 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 10 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 11 | Such persistence is not easy because there is nothing to go on except the general hunch that there ought to be an opportunity somewhere about . |
| 12 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 13 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 14 | I had to go on to the usual horror . |
| 15 | It concerns me , in fact I was , I 've had a theory for a couple of years now , that what the Tories wish us all to do is to go on to the American system of medical insurance . |
| 16 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 17 | To go on with the utter silence or to break the silence , pretending nothing had happened . |
| 18 | With bottle feeding you have some choices after six months ; to go on with the original formula , use a follow-on formula or start boiled cow 's milk . |
| 19 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 20 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 21 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 22 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 23 | The big cat started to swing on to the other tack but a swell caught her bow , slamming her back . |
| 24 | now the avoidance of doubt , when you 've got to another aspect of the case quite different , namely the claim for special damages , you were suggesting to Mr that there , there was a deliberate attempt to and after all whereas you might not like my er use of the to swing on to the Daily Telegraph |
| 25 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 26 | This is paradoxically confirmed by the fact that both capitalist and socialist economists , politicians and ideologues are increasingly trying to jump on to the Green bandwaggon and to appropriate its policies for themselves . |
| 27 | He persuaded General Electric to waste millions developing a rotary compressor , almost persuaded Utah to jump on to the cold-fusion bandwagon , and failed to rescue Wang laboratories from bankruptcy . |
| 28 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 29 | A few other media met the conditions of technology , but simply failed to catch on with a mass audience . |
| 30 | To catch on to the developing barbecue market , the BTIS is also to spotlight June as its first Quality British Turkey Month ; arrange sampling tests for up to 150,000 consumers ; and set up a turkey charity ball — or turkey trot — in conjunction with a major charity . |