Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter . |
| 2 | With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill . |
| 3 | I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice . |
| 4 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 5 | ‘ It means of course , ’ she went on in the same level tone , ‘ that you will not be free to make a decision until your uncle dies . |
| 6 | ‘ But if you carry on for a few more days on an unofficial basis , that 's your business . |
| 7 | This way of thinking is not reasonable , yet we carry on in the same way , generation after generation , never learning by our past mistakes . |
| 8 | We carried on for a few more yards , then retraced our steps down to the main level and back out into the sunshine . |
| 9 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 10 | Rejected in the former , they press on with the latter . |
| 11 | When the war ended the OSS was busted up : they hung on to a few units — there was a whole alphabet soup of SI , SSU , X-2 , CIG , for a time — but most of us just went home to build a brave new world with law books and Shakespeare . |
| 12 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 13 | He drove on for a few minutes , the headlights cleaving a way through the darkness . |
| 14 | He walked on for a few yards , stooped and picked something up . |
| 15 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 16 | He went on to a few years ' stint as assistant , ‘ doing stuff from watches to bedrooms ’ , interspersed with occasional bouts of travel abroad , a period which proved ‘ a lot of learning and finding out about me . ’ |
| 17 | And so it went on for a few more minutes and then Anna returned , bearing a red packet labelled " Marlboro " . |
| 18 | It went on in the same tone for several excited paragraphs and ended in an even heavier and blacker print . |
| 19 | He ran on in the latter stages , but never looked likely to justify heavy support in the betting market . |
| 20 | Mm , it carries on of the same account there then he said to the army officer you see |
| 21 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |