Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] on the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 3 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 4 | What have we got to get on the way home ? |
| 5 | With a little shiver , she muttered awkwardly , ‘ Well , go on , then , or are we going to stand on the ladder all day ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ How are we going to get on the Shuttle ? ’ he said . |
| 7 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 8 | We like to concentrate on the pop stuff in a few tracks and indulge in the more experimental stuff with the rest . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 10 | And what sort of things might we have to encounter on the road ? ’ |
| 11 | So , at the very last minute we decided to perform on the lawn outside the main building . |
| 12 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 13 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We aim to build on the success of last year . ’ |
| 14 | What are we going to do about the bad and how do we propose to build on the good . |
| 15 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 16 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 17 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 18 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |
| 19 | Well we had to discuss on the way home in the car that it would be better to have parish council meetings during the day rather than the evening . |
| 20 | We had a squad and we picked according to what we wanted to do on the day . |
| 21 | In this mailing from the Office you will already see that a National Draw is taking place , this was planned 12 months ago to increase our income , now we have to rely on the profit to see us through the lean times . |
| 22 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 23 | To link things up we have to act on the information rather than wait for the information to act on us . |
| 24 | We have already experienced the abolition of free eye and dental checks , we are suffering from the creeping privatization of the Health Service , the selling off of our water , our crumbling schools , and yet we have to concentrate on the issue of trade union , Labour Party links . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's great news for us but now we have to concentrate on the football and try to achieve a good result , ’ he said . |
| 26 | ‘ Still , eh , we have to concentrate on the future . |
| 27 | In the light of this difficulty , perhaps we need to speculate on the Code 's purpose in a wider , policy-making context . |
| 28 | Rather , we need to concentrate on the notion of fitness for purpose . |
| 29 | However , neither of us had expected to be arrested for behaviour likely to cause a breach of the peace ’ if we attempted to get on the water above the falls ; we 'd blown it ! |
| 30 | This will enable us to continue to concentrate on the collision of gravitational waves . |