Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 As an executive with a long-term career plan to protect , you may have sound reasons for leaving before a dismissal occurs or for departing on mutually agreed terms .
2 There was no question of his ever returning to the office , or of carrying on the firm .
3 If it is crystal clear and I am convicted of being in my dotage or of going on at half-cock then I shall ask British Telecom to accept my apologies wince at the thought of my next bill , and keep my nose clean .
4 in in Porthmadog or on taking on er the the Bishop of Bangor , I mean that was taking on
5 He knew also that the human race freely chose to reject him ; it was only right that they should take some responsibility : mankind as well as God must be responsible for reversing the effects of the fall and for moving on to the mature relationship with the creator that had been ordained for them from all eternity .
6 Baskets for carrying your tackle box , reels , bait , flasks , sandwiches , etc. , and for sitting on , are , I suppose , fine if you fish for only two or three hours at a stretch .
7 We often reached our overdraft limit because of a sticky cashflow — and after taking on a large mortgage to pay for a new factory we could n't raise any further borrowing for the second production line we needed much sooner than expected .
8 Towards the end of this review I put in a call to Ovation 's distributors , Korg UK , to check on some details , and after raving on about what a great guitar I though it was I was told that Korg did n't want it back .
9 The court was , I think , going no further than was necessary to decide the case before it : the corporation was a private corporation formed under an Act of Parliament which was capable of holding property and of carrying on a business .
10 After the passage quoted just above concerning the esteem in which Molla Fenari was held and his place in the state , and before passing on to the next event in his life , namely his going on the pilgrimage in 822 ( 8 Dhu " l-Hijja = 26 December 1419 ) , Ibn Hajar writes that Molla Fenari became widely known for his erudition and that he was both pious and abundant in culture and merit " except that he was censured for [ espousing ] the sect of Ibn al- " Arabi and for the fact that he taught the and affirmed it " : he goes on to say that Molla Fenari , on the advice of friends , abjured mention of the subject in Egypt .
11 Using your own experience of job interviews , either as interviewer or interviewee , and before reading on , write down ways in which the status , role , and office of the participants affect the nature and development of the discourse .
12 I do n't intend to discuss the housing , whether seven hundred acres , sorry seven l land for seven hundred houses is owned by the City of York , that 's not part of our case one way or the other , but we have offered you a distribution of the Greater York provision figure between the districts , because from Barton Willmore 's very extensive experience of participation in local plan work up and down the country , I think we share the view that er City of York have , that Ryedale have , my colleagues to the left and right on this side of the table have , that there does need to be a distribution , otherwise there will be at best confusion as to whether local plans comply with the structure plan , and at worst a game of of pass the parcel and everybody will be conforming , but nobody will actually be possibly meeting the figures , and that is the situation that I do n't think anybody would wish to see as a result of er the outcome of of alteration number three , I mean I do n't know how the County Council would would really be able to say whether they thought a local plan conformed to the structure plan , without knowing what that distribution was , perhaps in some bottom draw manner which is not now the approved way of going about these things , so that I think there does need to be a distribution for the proper planning of York , and before coming on to our to explain our figures a little bit , I should also say , perhaps in in response to remarks Mr Thomas made earlier on about the general character of the York area and the need to protect that , that that course is precisely what the greenbelt is for , and what it does , it is n't necessary to extend that concept across the whole of the vale of York , and therefore to seek to er discount migration outside the greenbelt .
13 We are all in the business of making people laugh — and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that — good old slapstick humour . ’
14 In the year 1990–91 , Innovation 's Franklin business was worth £1.2 million out of their total turnover of £4 million and since taking on the distributorship in 1987 they claim to have sold close to 300,000 units of Franklin product .
15 This kind of drama for practice in expressing and communicating emotions is far removed from the functioning behaviour required in the game of drama , where the participants ' concentration is not on whether he or she is signalling an emotion but with getting on with solving whatever problem is to hand .
16 But in banging on to such an extent about high taxation , and promising to reduce income tax still further , they have probably missed the public mood .
17 Ken did n't have to put on drag in Carry On Screaming , the first of three 1966 releases , but in Carry On — Do n't Lose Your Head , he did get to wear a woman 's frilly corset which did n't go all that badly with the curled wig he wore as Citizen Camembert , the ‘ big cheese ’ of the French Revolutionary secret police .
18 There are other features of prison life , however , which could only occur in this especially artificial environment , but before moving on to them it may be useful to concentrate on some of the prisoners ' own views of Maidstone .
19 But before going on , perhaps some time should be spent considering its history .
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