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Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Rather than carry on with such negative action , John and Colin decided to do something more constructive and let the general public know just what their activities involved .
2	we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about .
3	N C V O will carry on with this vital role , and enriching and enlarging the dynamics of the voluntary sector .
4	We 'll carry on with this another time . ’
5	Jenking let the ship run on for another fifteen minutes or so .
6	It does follow on from those 2-Tone ideals , and it 's funny that , ten years later , the ideals are still more or less intact . ’
7	Let's move on to any other business .
8	Let's move on before some young copper picks us up for soliciting .
9	I just could n't go on with that last letter .
10	That 's when I realised that I could n't go on with this free agent nonsense .
11	Getting data across We 'll go on to another another way of getting data across from one file to another is with a special type of formula .
12	With and without the capital S. You 've heard him go on about those selective hierarchies ? ’
13	Are you saying you 're quite prepared to let them , how they cut it , you 'll let it go on for another two years without you doing anything about it ?
14	And it 's gon na get worse if this situation of er you know erm jobs and that is gon na go on for another two years .
15	The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years .
16	John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’
17	He says time may be running out — it has run out for alot … this may go on for several more years — we have n't go several more years .
18	Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French .
19	This ascent up the levels of programming languages can go on without any natural limit : a language like LISP , when run , is normally translated through two or three levels before it becomes machine code .
20	Wellingtons and shorts , and we used to pour all this molasses and then tread it in , and we 'd go on treading it in until the next load came in , see , we could go on like this all day .
21	But what advice would he pass on to any young person with their sights set on a career in industry ?
22	He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more .
23	‘ So , ’ she said , ‘ how did you get on with that young man 's friend last night ? ’
24	We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island .
25	When they go home you can get on with some electronic angling with your detector .
26	‘ Dammee , ca n't we get on to some real facts ?
27	When we say that I do n't mean whether it 's a four or three bedroom house , I mean the sort of location it would be in , whether it would be a middle of a terrace or a middle of a string of houses , on the corner of a street or whether it would be on its own in the country somewhere or whether the back garden would back on to some playing fields or er the railway line or whether there 'd be houses at the back .
28	Do n't we ramble on about some strange things June ?
29	And , for the moment , all I want is a little peace and quiet although it 's not all that quiet , thanks to the gaps between the attic floorboards left by the cottage 's Victorian jerrybuilder : how Riva can snore on through all those goings-on I do not know .