Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about .
2 One can say that Niki continued to drive on for McLaren in 1985 .
3 Only once , last autumn , had there been an unnerving lift , a well-dressed man in a Mercedes , who had wanted Luke to drive on towards Devon with him , had offered him dinner and a night at a hotel , had put his hand high up on Luke 's thigh , and been altogether menacing .
4 Entry qualifications are generally the same , that is five O level GCE passes or their equivalent , as those required to continue on to degree and other higher level courses , which is indeed what the great majority of students do when they have successfully completed their foundation courses .
5 Valine 172 and the disulphide bridge residues 110 and 174 contribute to the hydrophobic core of domain 2 , after which the path of the main chain is locked to continue on into solution by Pro 175 .
6 PETER SHILTON is 90 minutes from a potential disaster — but the former England international vows to carry on as player-manager of Plymouth even if the club lose to non-League Dorking tomorrow .
7 However , after a lively meeting with directors , Reg was persuaded to carry on as coach by three men in a hearse who asked to meet him outside during a beer break .
8 Neil gets nod to carry on at Leeds
9 I immediately gestured to the Hurricanes to carry on to Malta by themselves as we were ditching and we turned for the coast ourselves , losing height all the way .
10 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 .
11 I think I got it because of my local knowledge and the that gave him the facility of being able to carry on without interruption .
12 Only the first was achieved before the collapse of the Society and it was left to Philip Miller to carry on with instruction through his Dictionary .
13 She therefore has to carry on with Stanley .
14 I told her I was frightfully keen to carry on with French .
15 Without the pipeline , or with great delay in its completion , one could see that it would be difficult for the USSR to carry on with business as usual .
16 Perhaps Becky had sold everything as he instructed , he thought , as he left the market to carry on down Whitechapel Road where at least he would have a chance to catch up with one of his sisters , rest and gather his thoughts .
17 They decided that it was very strange and exciting , and a very good reason to gallop around , and to snort and buck , and to carry on like madmen .
18 ‘ Lots of people say it must be easy for my family to carry on in music and that I must have taught them everything — but I feel they just inherited their love of music as it 's in our blood . ’
19 Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds .
20 Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium .
21 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 .
22 Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home .
23 There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction .
24 All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university .
25 She always wanted Mikey to go on to university and become a doctor or a lawyer .
26 Hope , however , was provided by the offer of a gift of £1,000 from Alderman Ephraim Hallam , to provide leaving scholarships for boys to go on to University .
27 ‘ The trouble is they 'll send for him when he is eighteen , and we were hoping he 'd win a scholarship to go on to University .
28 and I went who 's applying to go on to university or education after eighteen , so I put up my hand , turned round and flipping Stuart and Danny had put their hands up and I just went oh god , they 're gon na do really well and Terry , and Terry , we 're talking Terry , Terry who has n't got a brain cell to rub together
29 There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking .
30 This venerable leader was lured to Canton by Nguyen in 1925 and persuaded to go on to Shanghai to an address just within the French concession .
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