Example sentences of "not [vb infin] on [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , in dry summers the L3 are retained within the crusted faecal pat and can not migrate on to the pasture until sufficient rainfall occurs to moisten the pat .
2 They may not catch on in the north-east !
3 I will not go on about the statistics .
4 On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor .
5 Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring .
6 It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer .
7 The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision .
8 However , for the third time this season , Wantage could not hold on to a lead given them in the last five minutes , and allowed Andy Martin to shoot home for the equaliser for Bicester .
9 Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity .
10 driving along , keep to the left except when road signals or markings indicate otherwise or when you intend to overtake , or turn right , or when you have to pass stationery vehicles or pedestrians in the road , allow others to overtake you if they want you , you must not drive on by the side of the road .
11 In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted .
12 Although you have found that you can not get on with the latch tool method of casting off , this too can become quite automatic once you have the knack .
13 To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services .
14 She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere .
15 My advice to the Government is that they can not sort out the problem this side of a general election , so why not get on with the job of laying the long-term foundations for a successful economy ?
16 ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food .
17 It may or may not resolve on to the note it temporarily replaces .
18 It is useful to have trays with a non-skid surface and a raised rim , so that small objects do not slip on to the floor or out of reach .
19 Yeah it wo n't I mean , that wo n't stay on for an hour I mean I 've literally had a hot bath put the water on , you know , af it goes off at nine o'clock in the morning put that radiator , put that button on to reset the hot water for five minutes it 's bo boilers lit up ten minutes and then it 's gone off
20 You ca n't hang on to the past . ’
21 But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on .
22 She does n't hold on to the sheet .
23 After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more .
24 Do n't hold on by the reins whatever you do . ’
25 We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years .
26 ‘ He says he wo n't go on without a warm-up act first . ’
27 I wo n't go on about the England game — you know what happened — except to say it was crap being there .
28 Could n't go on with the performance even with the understudies because of the police coming in .
29 They laughed so much , they could n't go on with the interview .
30 ‘ You ca n't go on to a talk show and talk about the plots of the books .
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