Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] on [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Okay well next week we 'll carry on with this material , looking at communication networks . |
| 2 | Right we 'll move on to five point four . |
| 3 | We 'll go on with routine procedure for now . ’ |
| 4 | If they handle it , they 'll go on to another wing and that 's when the hard work begins . |
| 5 | ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station . |
| 6 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
| 7 | One might go on in that vein to explain that occasional ‘ wrecks ’ of birds occur ( to use the ornithologists ' term ) , where huge numbers of birds are driven off course by a storm , and end up scattered over the land in an exhausted state . |
| 8 | ‘ … it wo n't really be dying , because you 'll live on in this plant . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 10 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 11 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 12 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 13 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |
| 14 | Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 15 | Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven . |
| 16 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 17 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 18 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 19 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 20 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 21 | If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut . |
| 22 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 23 | O K , let's move on to maximum benefit . |
| 24 | An ‘ abstract ’ — a summary of your claim in not more than 150 words — needs to be written for this stage , which may go on for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ This may go on for some time , Christina , and could get very complicated . |
| 26 | It may go on after half term because she may not be able to come down on those two days , if that happens then I 'll have other back up material for them |
| 27 | Other questions may lead on to further enquiry and research . |
| 28 | Successful work using primary evidence may lead on to creative expression , which may come from a synthesis of the information gathered from the documentary evidence . |
| 29 | Let's go on to another subject which is another subject we 'll be dealing with today . |
| 30 | For example , she uses Let's go on to another topic where a literal translation of the Hebrew would be ‘ Perhaps we shall/should go on to another topic ’ and Let's begin with the question of defence policy where the Hebrew is literally ‘ Perhaps we shall start with the question of defence policy ’ . |