Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 I told her I was frightfully keen to carry on with French .
10 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 .
11 ‘ 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 . ’
12 Picnickers explain that they are prepared to carry on in spite of the odds .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 Many forms had days when lessons finished at midday , and study had to go on at home .
16 There is literally no limit to the abuses which might creep in if such a practice were allowed to go on without restriction .
17 All three pupils are now following A-level course work at Aquinas College , Stockport and hope eventually to go on to university .
18 She always wanted Mikey to go on to university and become a doctor or a lawyer .
19 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 .
20 ‘ 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 .
21 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
22 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 .
23 So you need a rich peasant economy to finance industrialization to provide the mechanization to enable you to go on to collectivization .
24 Where such clauses are included at the wish of the parties it is always as well to go on to spell out the consequences of the failure to agree .
25 Once we had worked together to help him regain his faith , he was able to go on to play just as well as he had done before ; indeed , now that he had remembered the feeling of success , he was able to play even better .
26 Of the regional erm team and erm , and erm , he was asked to go , to go on to play international
27 In a remarkable record , he was to go on to win two further bars , in France that year and in Germany in 1945 .
28 For instance , if we want a trajectory that goes then we start in region 1 ; to get to region 3 we must be in the right-hand " third " of region 1 ; if we are going to go on from region 3 to region 4 , we must be in the right-hand " third " of that " third " ; and , to go on to region 2 , in the left " third " of that " third " , etc .
29 Having reached the last four of the Tennents Scottish Cup , it is not beyond them to go on to beat Aberdeen or Clydebank at Tynecastle next month and pursue a piece of silverware that has not been seen in the boardroom at Easter Road since the turn of the century .
30 As Lorenz wrote , ‘ one of them may be inclined to go on to mouth-pulling a few seconds before the other one .
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