Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had not originally been intended to carry on the research after that date , but it was so successful that finding was obtained to set up a panel study . |
| 2 | " After some discussion it was arranged to carry on the Winter Meetings fortnightly as last year . |
| 3 | In a number of legal systems there is a presumption that the property in identified goods is intended to pass on the making of the contract , in others , only on delivery . |
| 4 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 5 | The temptation to stay in town for a curry or a Schwarzenegger film , or both , can seriously disrupt that urge to carry on the journey up the 277 summits . |
| 6 | ‘ She wants to pass on the message that the world is still a great place despite everything . |
| 7 | The quicker heat escapes from your hot water tank , the more often you will need to switch on the water heating to warm it up . |
| 8 | Schladming , just to the east , which tried to take on the World Cup commitment , has suffered similarly . |
| 9 | As time passes the new bride is expected to take on the identity of her new family , making her subjugation complete . |
| 10 | With contracting , hospital doctors will be the agents of the provider , not the purchasing authority , and again can not be expected to take on the gatekeeper role . |
| 11 | Bolstered by his landslide electoral victory in 1972 , the President moved to take on the legislature . |
| 12 | He still wants to take on the best in the world , but the best do not seem to want him . |
| 13 | None of their three sons Roy , Robert and Clive have decided to carry on the family tradition . |
| 14 | So this was not the equivalent of a father wanting to pass on the passionate love of his hobby to his children . |
| 15 | To me it seemed to hang on the right lip for at least two seconds before it dropped in . |
| 16 | Countries with suitable slalom sites but no suitable WWR courses would then be able to host events and smaller countries prepared to take on the WWR event but not the larger slalom event would be able to make contributions . |
| 17 | Pegasus did n't win their first short corner of the game until the 28th minute , and that was down to Nadine Long , who at times was the only forward prepared to take on the Portadown defence . |
| 18 | ‘ I know it 's a long way , ’ I say , ‘ I do n't even know which line to take on the underground . |
| 19 | He 's always looking to take on the back row and his sheer physical strength is phenomenal … |
| 20 | How Jon Solly plans to take on the world |
| 21 | — ITV plans to take on the BBC in the lunchtime ratings battle with a new soap set in a North-East seaside community . |
| 22 | For anyone disposed to take on the often very satisfying task of making banners I can assure them that there are several very kind ‘ Barnabases ’ in the church whose comments and encouragements I have valued . |
| 23 | As a result , people in these institutions quickly came to take on the roles and goals which these institutions required for their survival . |
| 24 | B U choose the Merry Widow because their last show White Horse was so successful the B U Musical Society have decided to take on the ambitious task of tackling the Merry Widow for their next production . |
| 25 | How could she expect to take on the powerful Lucenzo Salviati — a man with centuries of trickery in his blood — and come out top ? |
| 26 | Other actors were instructed to bring on the score . |
| 27 | For those tha who are not to familiar with , the initials P P G , it stands for planning policy guidance , and there are a whole series of these guidance notes produced by the Department of the Environment for the er advice guidance of , well not only the local planning authorities but anyone else who is interested in the development business , and they are expressions of , I suppose government policy , er and their attitudes towards various aspects , whether it 's countryside , housing , trans or transport , and they do pro provide a useful backcloth , in fact an extremely valuable backcloth to the way in which er this matter should be considered , erm I know from the submission which North Yorkshire County Council have used they would say that the fact they have n't had regard to all this er , but I would like to carry on the discussion against that background , and could you direct your thinking at this stage about the need for a new settlement in the light of the principles spelt out in P P G three and particularly paragraph thirty three . |
| 28 | She said well , tell Grant , she said he can have a reprieve , she said it 's May the eighth and , and she says , she probably heard me say it was Friday and that 's when I thought it was this Friday , so I had to phone erm the receptionist at daddy 's works , so she was going to pass on the message to daddy just to tell him just to work late as usual , Grant , rather than come in at teatime and then go back to work again . |
| 29 | He scrambled out of his sleeping bag and went to fetch a torch he kept for when he wanted to read late , not liking to put on the light and get all the other going . |
| 30 | The room was growing very dark , yet Breeze did not like to put on the light . |