Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 2 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 3 | When that happened , the others , those whose canoes sank , tried to hold on to the canoes that were still afloat . |
| 4 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 5 | When she 'd returned to the office I tried to get on with the writing but could n't concentrate . |
| 6 | the train had made its imperceptible departure and was rolling along again past the uninhabited infinity of rocks and lakes and conifers that seemed to march on to the end of the world . |
| 7 | If LEAs take their assigned task seriously , schools may begin to hanker for the days when they were given the tools and told to get on with the job . |
| 8 | When they reached Scarborough Pat , 58 , a steelworker from Middlesbrough , was taken to the town 's hospital where nurses bandaged his bruised and swollen fingers and he vowed to carry on with the journey . |
| 9 | As one , they turned to continue on around the side of the house , Hector racing along before them . |
| 10 | ‘ Do n't you dare presume to tell me what I need ! ’ she spat , trembling as she began to clamber on to the quayside . |
| 11 | Leaden clouds had rolled in with the setting sun and as they neared Carvoeiro fat drops of rain began to splash on to the windscreen . |
| 12 | My er my sister worked in the grenade shop and erm after she ca she 'd been working at , on the manor , do you know the manor at Willenhall and then er she decided to go on with the war work and she was courting the man named , John and his father was the timekeeper , later H & T Hornes , but erm it fizzled out and anyway the romance did but erm |
| 13 | So I decided to go on to the council . |
| 14 | It gave us all the boost we needed to carry on to the launch and , after that , to the second anniversary of John 's captivity . |
| 15 | So the NETRHA decided to carry on with the Friern and Claybury programme in the absence of feasible alternatives . |
| 16 | ‘ In fact , it was only after some debate that the organisers decided to carry on with the event , and some changes had to be made to the canoe course to make it easier for the rescue boats to assist competitors . |
| 17 | During Ministry 's set , huge clods of earth started to bounce on to the stage . |
| 18 | Labour , on return to power , decided to press on with the development of a new family allowance scheme , called ‘ child benefit ’ , designed to replace the older allowance , extended it to the first child in each family , and offset it against the abolition of tax allowances . |
| 19 | And decided to fight on despite the problems . |
| 20 | Most western European governments decided to hang on to the state monopoly in telecommunications networks ; their deregulatory ventures were to be very modest indeed — for example in allowing greater flexibility in renting or buying telephone handsets and other terminal equipment . |
| 21 | Goldner toyed with the offer , but decided to stay on at the Getty after negotiating a new contract that allowed him to remain in his hometown of New York most of the year ( with short stays in Malibu ) , in effect managing and adding to the Getty 's collection in absentia . |
| 22 | Negroponte , who is on two year 's leave of absence from MIT decided to stay on to the end of the present academic year . |
| 23 | The whole column proceeded to fall on to the ground . |
| 24 | Started as they meant to go on for the holiday . |
| 25 | It is not yet known how so many horses managed to stray on to the road which was a quarter of a mile from their paddock . |
| 26 | ‘ I think that 's one of the reasons why Stoneley chose to hang on to the school as an observation point , ’ Hennessy said . |
| 27 | She meant to get on in the world . |
| 28 | Dazed as I was , I managed to roll on to the floor and crawl under the table as people crowded over to watch what they thought was a fight . |
| 29 | After the management fired the union leadership , initially 86 per cent of workers voted to go on with the strike , but eventually they were cajoled into a ‘ second union ’ started by white collar staff who wanted to cooperate with the company ( and many of whom were to receive rapid promotions from the grateful management — see also chapter 16 ) . |
| 30 | It would take about an hour and a half to fix and heat up the oven ; and , of course , once it was started we had to carry on with the job of re-tyring . |