Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] on [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 However , the other category of liability for personal injury or death which the party in default can seek to pass on to the innocent party is that relating to claims made against the party in default by third parties , who have suffered death or personal injury by reason of the negligence of the party in default .
2 I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought .
3 Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group .
4 Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade .
5 Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments .
6 Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor .
7 Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter .
8 He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’
9 He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose .
10 I wo n't go banging on about the open fireplace again , but to my mind that was certainly one of them .
11 Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched .
12 If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’
13 And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward .
14 One may get displaced on to the other , or one , a problem in its own right , may be used as a defence against the other .
15 After a long-winded description of the historical background to the war , and survey of the situation in the east — hinting that the war would continue to drag on over the coming winter — Hitler , in the part of the speech which attracted most attention , demanded full powers to act immediately and ruthlessly ‘ independent of person and status ’ where anyone was found not to be fulfilling his duties to the ‘ people 's community ’ and failing in the war effort and promised an ‘ inexorable challenge to every form of corruption and omission of duty ’ .
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