Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 2 | You may have then had a verbal exchange with your next in line , but bar that you were expected to get on with the work . |
| 3 | I was , simply , not prepared to go on with the discomfort of feeling — or knowing other people might feel — that I was in any way neglecting my family . |
| 4 | Since it was essential that the moment I awoke each morning , the first words , sentences , if possible , paragraphs came readily to mind , last thing at night , instead of my prayers , my mind was instructed to grind on with the pages . |
| 5 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 6 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 7 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 8 | Hitherto the older waist-band had tended to slip on to the horse 's neck and either throttle him or prevent him from pulling hard ; hence the slower and less efficient ox had been generally used . |
| 9 | Strathclyde 's Labour group also agreed to press on with the closure of two primary schools , Castlehill in Prestwick , and Dalmuir in Clydebank . |
| 10 | So we 're looking at it first , I I think in the end , there are schemes that we 've got to put on to the back burner , or the , until such times Lincoln develops further , and there is further development . |
| 11 | Additionally , these bolts and other protection are commonly used to rest on during the ascent . |
| 12 | Listen , have you got to stay on at the track , or is it possible for you to leave and come back to the hotel ? ’ |
| 13 | The final recipient has still got to get on with the work based on this small amount of information , only now with DOPACS he has a time limit . |
| 14 | ‘ Now we 've got to get on with the job at Arsenal and try to get back . |
| 15 | Old Trung a toughened three-year contract coolie compelled to stay on in the plantation beyond the term because he had no money or clothes to leave , knotted the cord Dong had fetched around the neck of the cadaver with a deftness that betrayed his familiarity with the task . |
| 16 | But Conservative Euro-rebels remain pledged to fight on against the treaty . |
| 17 | He is encouraged to go on with the process of living ( line 60 ) and perhaps hints at compensation for suffering in an after-life . |
| 18 | The crimson rope-lights still held him , so that he was forced to go on down the slope until they stood before the terrible dwelling place of the necromancer . |
| 19 | Nevertheless , the proposed stimuli are myth and folk song and , hopefully , these are meant to lead on to the poetry of Blake and Shakespeare . |
| 20 | Does the alleged damage caused to the turf really warrant this control , as opposed to the pleasure gained by youngsters being allowed to run on to the pitch after the game ? |
| 21 | She 'd tried to hold on to the anger she 'd felt earlier , but it had slipped away from her , dissolving with the wine . |
| 22 | I like to be left to get on with the job |
| 23 | Some argue for much greater administrative decentralization , to remove the ‘ Whitehall bottleneck ’ , and urge that central government gives more thought to the formulation of clearly defined policies so that local authorities can be safely left to get on with the job within a clear policy framework . |
| 24 | Falati was allowed to stay on at the house after the intervention of Mr Mandela . |
| 25 | Sir Henry Cole thought that the answer to the problem was simple : Scott should remodel his proposals on the lines of Inigo Jones ' scheme for Whitehall Palace , and eventually Street asked in The Builder what was to be gained from changing the architect ; a Gothic building was appropriate , and Scott should be allowed to get on with the work . |
| 26 | The ministries become bogged down in detail when their energies and resources should be concentrated more on overall policy , and the ad hoc commissions grow disillusioned and frustrated because they are not allowed to get on with the job . |
| 27 | We should be allowed to get on with the training and leave the generation of profit to those with the necessary expertise . |
| 28 | A defence agent said Frost and his friends had intended to move on from the lay-by , opposite Invermoriston Post Office , as soon as they got their Giro cheques . |
| 29 | This speech has now completely turned the play around and has begun to lead on to the tragedy at the end of it , Brutus , the nobleman 's , death . |
| 30 | And the reverse of that , wrote Harsnet , the feeling that all we have already felt and seen and heard has yet to happen , is so far only a dream , a fantasy , and the sense , he wrote , that this may be a feeling we experience again and again throughout our lives , that the elements of experience have failed to catch on to the glass of our lives , or that the glass is there and waiting for the experience to be registered , that it can wait for ever , for it does not know the meaning of time . |