Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [det] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well , erm tis n't , she 's not , she wants the W R A F and nothing else and Sue said you ca n't be like that , you know , and er , so they 've decided that she 's got ta carry on with this Saturday job because she wo n't be able to go on the dole look , straight away will she ? |
| 2 | ‘ I reckon he will hold on to that England No. 9 shirt for years to come . ’ |
| 3 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 4 | One can go on in this knockabout vein for some time , because some of the illogicalities of the Velikovskian scientists are very funny indeed . |
| 5 | But I flatter myself that I can meet this danger more calmly and securely than most philologists ; my philosophical seriousness is already too deeply rooted , the true and essential problems of life and thought have been too clearly shown to me by the great mystagogue Schopenhauer … " ( 1869 ) ; " I love the Greeks more and more … [ but ] … the philologist 's existence … seems to me more and more anomalous " ( 1870 ) ; " For me , everything that is best and most beautiful is associated with the names Schopenhauer and Wagner , and I am proud and happy to share this feeling with my closest friends " ( 1870 again ) ; and from the close of the same year , " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years ; let us take it as a sorrowful lesson … I realize what Schopenhauer 's doctrine of university wisdom is all about … |
| 6 | We have already quoted part of the letter to Rohde , written in December , which gives the best testimony to Nietzsche 's state of mind : " Let us drag on in this university existence for a few more years … |
| 7 | ‘ How did you get on to this Hilton business ? ’ demanded Morgan . |