Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I learned that my wife had been released but had very little money to live on . |
| 2 | His homosexuality made him an outcast , he had no job to do , very little money to live on , and ended his days in an alcoholic haze clinging desperately to his Old Etonian tie as the last link with his sordid past . |
| 3 | With the Everqueen lost , the Elves had little heart to fight on . |
| 4 | er , if the , if the , er service charge costs had gone up in the meantime , obviously after you reached the end of the first accounting period you have some accounts to go on and you have a much better idea of what the costs are actually going to be |
| 5 | I do have a question and , and it has n't made , that has n't made it particularly clear as to where we are , you hinted that , and I think that was also seconded here that there might now be a post of some kind to carry on for instance the thing that I 'm particularly worried about is that there 's a sort of hiatus in the heartbeat awards , which I think would be a tragedy if that happened , and I want to be absolutely sure that that is , is n't so . |
| 6 | Why I 'm gon na want some money to spend on ? |
| 7 | But you still earned a few bob to get on . |
| 8 | He could start thinking he 's a poached egg and wander off looking for some toast to sit on . ’ |
| 9 | When we then find ourselves confronted by the weary who need sustaining , both in personal conversation and in public worship alike , we have this reservoir to draw on . |
| 10 | Well you 'll have to go and get some shoes to put on . |
| 11 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 12 | Or it you leave it open and one of the other speakers in the More than One or more of the other speakers in the conversation could decide to start to talking , or no one could erm start talking the present speaker at the moment gets another chance to carry on . |
| 13 | Whoever 's got some knowledge to pass on . |
| 14 | And even then a lot of this stuff to get on and off . |
| 15 | And , never having met such an abominable man , she actually heard herself telling him just how large the mortgage on the apartment was , and , while she was recovering from having actually told him something she regarded as no one 's business but her own , and was taking another breath to rage on , he got in first . |
| 16 | Much impressed with my narrow escape , Dad carried the object downstairs on top of the sand in the fire bucket — it did come in handy after all — and we sat around gazing at it , drinking the inevitable tea and storing up this tale to pass on to all our friends and relations . |
| 17 | Now , I 've given you some cream to put on as well Anne . |
| 18 | I thought I 'd leave this one now cos I need some Playdoh to carry on with it really . |
| 19 | Looking for a plausible mechanism is slightly easier , but the search has only just begun , and there are few clues to go on at present . |
| 20 | CHRIS LILLYWHITE fought off another challenge to hold on to his Milk Race yellow jersey in yesterday 's 116.5 mile 10th stage from Sheffield to Liverpool . |
| 21 | To those who are still reading , firstly my thanks , secondly a warning ( this section is filled with questions rather than answers ) and thirdly some encouragement to read on , in that doing so may help to maximise the utility of the book as a whole . |
| 22 | And you think that you 're lucky to be alive in that respect , but I 've never really thought that I was specially picked out for some reason to carry on living . |
| 23 | Of course , it is quite another matter to go on to argue from this very limited piece of evidence that loss of the fricative in /xt/ was embedded in the English language as a whole as a completed sound-change at this early date . |
| 24 | And just for your information there was another penalty to end on . |
| 25 | But it is quite another thing to go on to suggest that such a minority therefore possesses no political rights , or should be deprived of those which it holds equally with all other citizens . |
| 26 | to work together and deliver an effective result because nobody gains anything in the eyes of the people of this county by allowing this thing to go on and on and on and what they feel is if we ca n't get to grips with it what on earth are we doing with our existence . |
| 27 | This is not an aim — this is a method ; the aim underpinning this response is to get another agency to take on the family . |
| 28 | In many instances it is likely that these lowered rates of employment are the direct result of providing care , although in some cases it is possible that a temporary withdrawal from the labour market ( for example , because of redundancy or child-bearing ) may enable some women to take on informal caring responsibilities and delay their return to paid employment . |
| 29 | We have just been informed by Mr R. Warner of Photomatic Limited that the business ceased in August 1991 , but he has made arrangements with another company to carry on the photo-printing of Litho copies . |
| 30 | I 'm gon na sell it all when you die , get loads of money and then buy some stools to sit on , what |