Example sentences of "[vb infin] [to-vb] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years . |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you want to go on with the lesson , or stand about talking all day long ? ’ |
| 4 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 5 | and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as |
| 6 | When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float . |
| 7 | I just could n't wait to get on with the athletics . |
| 8 | In recent years IBM has introduced four-year ' term contracts ' for some graduate entrants , like a commission in the service , to give fine training and work experience to people who will expect to move on at the end . |
| 9 | Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road . |
| 10 | And he said , well would you like to carry on with the contract ? |
| 11 | However , I would like to hang on to the notion of homology in a qualified sense . |
| 12 | We would like to hold on to the VHS copies for a further 3 weeks . |
| 13 | So we will er if we may er not ask you to introduce your document we we 'd like to get on with the questioning . |
| 14 | Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job . |
| 15 | Having given you food for thought , I 'd like to move on to a discussion of the criteria and can I say right now that I think it would be right and proper to limit our discussion this morning to the criteria . |
| 16 | And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team . |
| 17 | We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do . |
| 18 | But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married |
| 19 | ‘ Besides , the fans did n't have to run on to the pitch . |
| 20 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 21 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 22 | The truth was that Mr Wolski was sad with himself , for he did not wish to stay on at the Zoo any longer . |
| 23 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |
| 24 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 25 | Two questions — how did you manage to get on with the people in this house ? |
| 26 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 27 | He could afford to hang on to the house until the market quickened . |
| 28 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 29 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |
| 30 | Embryos will attach to the culture dish within 24 h and outgrowths of polyploid TE will start to spread on to the substratum within the next day ( Figure 2 , panel 12 ) . |