Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 2 | There are people who are genuinely trying to make money for themselves and their families at car boot sales , so I think , you know , I do n't , I would n't like to see them stamped on altogether . |
| 3 | ‘ D' you want me to go on ? ’ |
| 4 | Do you want me to go on ? |
| 5 | ‘ Do you want me to go on ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You just do n't want me to carry on my business , do you ? ’ she hit back , angered at his refusal and refusing to see the rest as a compliment . |
| 7 | I move in the er public protection report that er Mr Chairman , the bell 's still going do you want me to hang on a minute or what ? |
| 8 | I am a British citizen but the Home Office do n't want me to stay on here in spite of that . |
| 9 | In life Kelly set herself the toughest challenges , and she met them head on . |
| 10 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 11 | It is to make them by accelerating two beams of protons up to energies of 20TeV and then colliding them head on . |
| 12 | One year later she and her husband were expressing their thanks to the Home Support Project for helping them to go on looking after Mrs Cummings at home , and said that although it was still a strain it was ‘ nowhere near as hard as it has been , now that we 've got other people to help us ’ . |
| 13 | She made me put on my suit and collar and tie . |
| 14 | If they started to cause trouble , we just asked them to move on and they appreciated it . |
| 15 | We had one or two , one or two vagrants knocking about , and we just asked them to move on , and they moved on . |
| 16 | I mean I keep on tell |
| 17 | I mean I keep on saying if I found I could n't do the maths I 'd ditched |
| 18 | You can buy them to sell on later at a profit . |
| 19 | I want them to go on because they can see it 's the only thing to do . |
| 20 | Patience , determination , a good sense of humour … want me to go on ? ’ |
| 21 | Now I do n't wan na , want me to prattle on much more tonight , if it 's not worth speaking about , I think it 's probably about enough |
| 22 | Ah I do n't know whether you want me to chat on about that |
| 23 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 24 | ‘ Want me to get on with it , then ? ’ |
| 25 | Agreeing with something someone else has said is a powerful way to encourage them to go on and say more . |
| 26 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 27 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 28 | This was followed by four further weeks which trained them to pass on these new skills to other villagers . |
| 29 | Community psychiatric nurses provide a vital service to the elderly mentally infirm enabling them to carry on living at home through the provision of medication and support . |
| 30 | Jeff Hammond , of Willis Corroon , said the service would provide the means of dealing with these potential threats to businesses enabling them to get on with their main task — providing quality products to an ever more aware consumer market . |