Example sentences of "we [vb base] on [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , we bang on about the play and the staging and the big themes , and , if there 's any space left , then , as the chairman of Critics ' Forum wearily intones , ‘ I suppose we ought to say something about the performances . ’ |
| 2 | We taxi on to the runway , midday on the murder mile , to fly to the capital of the New United States Of Europe . |
| 3 | If we hold on to the suffering of those nearest to us , we may not be strong enough to offer any real help by lifting them from whatever is affecting them . |
| 4 | Now then the faster that we can do this the faster we get on with the game , so you sit quietly please . |
| 5 | There again , rather than wake them up , and the they do a runner , we get on to the phone , tell the police that there 's a a juvenile or what looks like to be a juvenile , sleeping in in part of the flats but where it 's a a stairwell , an ou outhouse , erm even under the stairs , then they 'll come along and check it out . |
| 6 | We get on like a house on fire — now we no longer live together . |
| 7 | We continue on past the airport where the road goes under the recent extension of the runway , which is supported on high pillars many metres above the road . |
| 8 | We all need windows in our lives , and at the moment we can ask for nothing more than the scenes flicking past the carriage until , at last , we reach open country and the long dark hours ahead we plough on towards the East and the border . |
| 9 | On a beat , that is with the sheet pulled in tightly but as we turn on to a ridge you 'll see that we have to ease the sheet out so that the sail stays at the same angle for the wind . |
| 10 | The but is the superego is a part of the ego so we have to er before we go on to the superego , let's just say for the time being that repression is directed by the ego itself . |
| 11 | At last we are going aboard a tank-landing craft : I slip off my rucksack , assemble the bagpipes , a couple of minutes to tune up , then on with the rucksack and we march on to the craft to the tune Highland Laddie . |
| 12 | We carry on with the gin , nobody paying any attention to my sentimental reminiscences , contradictory and literary as they are and unable to express my conflicting desire that England be an island in a timewarp and that the English behaved like Continentals . |
| 13 | For myself and Eileen as we move on to a ministry which will have its own surprises in the days ahead , we hope that we can lead our beloved Church on . |
| 14 | Well now we move on to the election of officers and as you 've heard two er officers are , have tendered their resignation , Alan and Joan . |
| 15 | Thanks very much Alan , before we move on to the agenda colleagues , er could I announce that the collection yesterday for the Burnstall strikers realized a magnificent sum of five hundred and forty-nine pounds . |
| 16 | We move on to the gene pool , the DNA programmers , the plasma bank . |
| 17 | There is noticeably less agreement when we move on to the topic of why , how and when assessment in these areas should take place . |
| 18 | Now we move on to the reflector and Irene in particular has got a very high a lot of the others . |
| 19 | Then we move on from the getting of work , the erm doing of work to ensuring that the operations are not in going back to our quality , that the actual profit that we are producing and delivering is er of the top top quality . |
| 20 | And again before we come on to the entry . |
| 21 | There are net nowhere where we are using both one-off and fortuitous savings in certain budget heads to meet unavoidable expenditure we come on within the year , and therefore keep within the Committee 's overall cash limit for the year . |