Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [det] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
2 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
3 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
4 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
5 | And they 'd go on for many years with incredible perseverance , believing when they had no reason to believe , when it was crazy for them to believe . |
6 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
7 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
8 | Erm , and , and I think sadly , as well the problem is that if this recession does go on for any length of time then we will be losing many of our |