Example sentences of "[vb pp] i [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | You see , I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now . ’ |
| 4 | And I suppose it was instinct that had made me hang on to my thermometer ; the delicate tube was still in my hand . |
| 5 | And my employers have twice asked me to stay on . ’ |
| 6 | I 'm sure he would have asked me to stay on if I had . ’ |
| 7 | And I explained to them it 's because having been unemployed most of my professional life that I 've always been short of money and that 's what 's led me to work on very cheap materials . |
| 8 | Even when all sign of life had gone I kept on feeling itchy . |
| 9 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 10 | Once his flat work was fairly established I went on to his jumping , first working with trot , then canter poles , insisting on straightness and even temp of stride . |