Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance .
2 And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was .
3 So I think for this run I 'd better press on with the book . ’
4 ‘ We 'd better go on to the farm and buy … ’
5 That 's reach a common understanding which reflects the realities of a relationship we enjoy at the present day so that we can all get on with the task of serving our members and forming a Labour government .
6 If that could be added that would achieve my objectives and we can all get on to the debate about V A T on .
7 ‘ Then you 'd better get on with the job quickly . ’
8 Mrs. Mott had better get on with the job of cancelling them .
9 Joan I think I 'd better box on with the webbing here love , I have n't got enough
10 I 'll bo I 'd better box on with the webbing on the back .
11 Tell her you know how she feels , but do n't give in to her demands , as she 'll soon latch on to the idea that throwing a tantrum gets her what she wants .
12 ‘ You did n't exactly carry on like a pacifist yourself , ’ she retorted evasively , mouth reproachful .
13 They 're always the ones that are a bit more boisterous , whereas the older ones you have to physically carry on in the shop floor , the students do n't , and that 's what gives them a bad name .
14 We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England .
15 It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use .
16 Now though I 've got to just get on with the rest of my life
17 ‘ People are n't allowing us to just get on with the job .
18 ‘ We have not got a lot of money and we have got to just get on with the job of trying to sort things out on the field .
19 You can usually carry on with a sport you enjoy so long as you feel comfortable .
20 ‘ We are not going to stop our style of play , we are a free-running side who want to score tries and even if we come unstuck against good sides with well-organised defences we will still keep on with the kind of game which we know pleases the fans . ’
21 On earlier models , the mylar sheet will always move on during the left to right row , whichever side the carriage was on when you started .
22 Indeed , both he and Valentine see the needs of teleworking providing additional momentum behind the delivery of solutions that would have an equally telling effect on the use of technology that would still go on inside the office .
23 But generational time can gradually lead on to an appreciation of dates and time-lines .
24 It is well known that local reversals of movement occur and may possibly go on for a number of years .
25 A company employing ten workers might lay off two in bad times ; ten self-employed workers would probably carry on with a 20% reduction in their turnover rather than voluntarily go on the dole .
26 If , as expected , Mr Papandreou also fails to form a government , the mandate will automatically pass on to the Communists .
27 We 'll now move on to an amendment standing in the name of Councillor .
28 Perhaps we could now move on to the question of Sir Conrad 's recent involvement in the club 's affairs ? ’
29 Having set forth the accepted Turkish tradition concerning the early Muftilik and having reviewed in some detail the lives of the first three Muftis , one may now pass on to a consideration in more general terms of the validity of the tradition and of such important problems as the reasons for the creation of the institution and the nature of the early Muftilik , problems which are either not dealt with at all by Turkish writers or are dealt with only in the vaguest terms .
30 Workers need to have factual knowledge about HIV/AIDS which they can accurately pass on to a child to give the child a full picture of what is involved .
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