Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has to decide whether he should stay on pending a full trial of the bitter dispute between the two men , who stood side-by-side as saviours of the financially troubled club in 1991 . |
| 2 | While I agree that worm watching will probably never catch on as a mass pursuit , something well known here in Cornwall is to observe seagulls tap dancing on the lawn after rain . |
| 3 | Back then , they did n't catch on in a big way . ’ |
| 4 | You know then we thought right , we 're not just gon na forget about this you know , we 'll we 'll carry on for a little while longer and then as soon as the ball really started rolling , er personally I thought well you ca n't back down now , . |
| 5 | It will slide on as a whole line , from the bottom right hand corner ( which will take 50 frames to complete ) stay still for 120 frames , and then scatter off randomly over a period of 30 frames . |
| 6 | 45133 and 50015 will then move on for a short period to the North Yorkshire Moors Railway before returning to Butterley . |
| 7 | If you 've been here long enough , you can move on to a progressive prison ; to a C cat , or even D cat . |
| 8 | But she knew that any attempt at this sort of seductive sophistication would be laughably incongruous coming from her quiet , ordinary little self , and in any case she had made no serious plans to leave , so she simply said steadily , ‘ That 's very nice of you , Dr Russell , but I have n't fully worked out my plans yet , and if I do leave I 'll probably sign on with a nursing agency . |
| 9 | The development officers felt that 50 would be about the maximum number of new cases they could take on over a 12 month period . |
| 10 | The CPU , floating point , instruction and data caches , memory controller and I/O interface will all go on to a single chip . |
| 11 | One can go on to a third group that I did not discuss , " all-ischaemic events " , including non-fatal and fatal reinfarction ; it includes the development of unstable angina , and revascularisation procedures . |
| 12 | Salvation came from without : the development of some de facto secondary work in the higher ‘ standards ’ or years of Board schools , the improvements in the older grammar schools , the use of various ‘ institutes ’ dedicated to helping working men get more education , the creation of new , civic universities like Owens in Manchester , and the expansion of London University , gave men who wanted a basic education beyond primary school new opportunities , after which they could go on to a denominational college which was now more able to concentrate on theology . |
| 13 | Your point is well taken that a percentage of those will go on to a transmural infarct , but I have difficulty in understanding these figures in relation to an expected mortality for sub-endocardial infarction of around 5–6% . |
| 14 | Well that practice did go on for a long number of years where the the riveter was the was the boss of the squad and on the Friday night , when er where it came knocking off time , he would collect the wages and he would divide that up between the squad which would be , a holder-on , a rivet boy , er maybe a putter-in , er again in my time , that was mostly a squad . |
| 15 | It could go on for a long time in this condition , like the Spanish Empire in its centuries of decline . |
| 16 | History shows it can go on for a long time , as deficits and surpluses did during the golden age before the First World War . |
| 17 | The list could go on for a long time . |
| 18 | This is another list that could go on for a long time . |
| 19 | The argument will go on for a long time . |
| 20 | I could go on for a long time in praise of Maxwell . |
| 21 | But er I could er I I could go on for a long time on that subject but time 's short dear , |
| 22 | It will go on for a long time but lost it is already . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ BR will switch on to a commercial footing and something will have to go . ’ |
| 24 | A " slip " , a temporary recourse to the mood-altering substance or behaviour , may or may not lead on to a full-scale relapse . |
| 25 | The extension of the theatre of war to south-eastern Europe had , despite the German triumph , led to increased concern that the war could now drag on for a long time . |
| 26 | The gayer , shorter girls would come on for a general dance to the Gavotte . |
| 27 | ‘ If we could get a decent job , have somewhere settled to live , then we could get on with a proper life . |
| 28 | Watched by England number two Lawrie McMenemy , Stuart did get on as a 64th minute substitute , but added : ‘ It seems everyone else gets straight back into the side after injury except me . |
| 29 | If the paddler builds up speed and then stops paddling , the boat will drift on in a straight line . |
| 30 | Another one of his tricks was to lurk behind the counter at the Turk 's Head so customers would think there was no one there , and then , when they were thinking of leaving or helping themselves to the jam doughnuts , he 'd leap on to a wooden box to bring his large dome head just above the level of the counter and say , ‘ Can I help you ? ’ in a very loud voice . |