Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did anyway , I got on with most teachers but but he did , really did give him a a really big , say a big couple of swipes on his backside . |
| 2 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 3 | If I hold on to these things they go , and if I let go of them they go , and so my life goes . |
| 4 | with all ty I get on with all types of people , that 's why I think I like you know er I like people . |
| 5 | But I went on to bigger clubs . ’ |
| 6 | Before I move on to other contributions , can I remind everybody that we are dealing with the Employee Resources Report . |
| 7 | Erm , we are indeed talking to Health Authority about the matters that were mentioned but can I come on to occupational therapists because I 'm very glad to say that erm we are able to recruit occupational therapists in this county . |
| 8 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 9 | Well the first question I want to ask you is how do you feel you got on in those presentations . |
| 10 | She hung on for two years , existing on fees for supervising undergraduates and an allowance from her father . |
| 11 | — ( in answer to How are you getting on with those jobs I asked you to do ? ) |
| 12 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 13 | ‘ You hung on for twelve years . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ And so you signed on with International Models ? ’ |
| 15 | And you went on to these chairs and you went through a , a scenic part which showed you the roads of the future . |
| 16 | ‘ You latch on to these techniques after you 've been around a bit ’ , he said … |
| 17 | She held on to twenty years of him . |
| 18 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 19 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 20 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 21 | But before we move on to institutional questions , we should recognize that whilst figure 2.1 illustrates a natural monopoly , it by no means exhausts the possibilities . |
| 22 | What else , before we come on to agricultural products , what , are there any other notable features of trade in manufactures ? |
| 23 | But a fair number of them went on to greater things . |
| 24 | The staff were young , enthusiastic and of high quality — many of them went on to high positions . |
| 25 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 26 | ‘ The one you 've just done in Cheltenham ? ’ she asked , catching Cara 's excitement as she waited expectantly for her to go on with more details . |
| 27 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 28 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 29 | Some books become such classics that they run on into innumerable editions and impressions , with the original so much extended , altered and corrected that there is scarcely a vestige of it left . |
| 30 | Coleridge introduced his friends to the steep woodland track leading from Porlock Weir to Culbone , and together they walked on for four miles beneath the trees , before emerging close to Broomstreet Farm and Yenworthy . |