Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The grass seemed to flow on for ever like a millpond sea . |
| 2 | I 'm sixty next year but I 'd like to carry on for as long as possible . ’ |
| 3 | A stranger entered the bidding and soon gave the impression that he was determined to carry on for as long as was required to obtain the Baron . |
| 4 | ‘ This is the life I 've been trained for and I want to carry on for as long as possible . |
| 5 | We 're not sure why research Right , so I 'm going to carry on with anyway and we 're going to start by looking at pages forty two and forty three , forty two and as you can see the units is entitled Should n't Do it to a Dog . |
| 6 | So even now if you wake me at three o'clock in the morning and sing me one bar of Der Rosenkavalier I will be able to carry on from where you start ! |
| 7 | Broadhurst , who won £28,650 in finishing third in the Carrolls Irish Open at Killarney on Sunday , said : ‘ It would be nice to carry on from where I left off in Ireland . ’ |
| 8 | So we need to carry on from there , so I 've done the A times A and the A times minus B. Now we start with the minus B times each other , so what does give ? |
| 9 | if you 'd like to carry on from there Claire . |
| 10 | You 're scheduled to go on at 10.30pm when coffee has been served . |
| 11 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 12 | A CLEVELAND school band conducted by Labour leader Neil Kinnock hopes to go on to more national acclaim . |
| 13 | It 's expected to go on for up to six weeks . |
| 14 | I am amazed that this practice has been allowed to go on for so long without anyone kicking up a fuss . ’ |
| 15 | Does the Secretary of State agree that it is vital that the public inquiry in Leicestershire establishes the circumstances that permitted the regime of terror to go on for so long and that permitted complaints made by the children to be ignored for long ? |
| 16 | It is important not to go on for too long , or to leave difficult business unfinished . |
| 17 | Similarly this ‘ new message ’ can not be allowed to go on for too long , as the mind will require yet another change . |
| 18 | but of course that does n't leave me much to talk about , becau , however he managed to go on for about ten minutes |
| 19 | It was a piece of exuberant fun which the audience and , one suspects , the dancers wanted to go on for much longer . |
| 20 | Time slowed down , Phoebe wanted this moment to go on for ever , this calm moment before the storm . |
| 21 | Hospital appointments seemed to go on for ever and when I left for the Sahara , I forgot to cancel one of them . |
| 22 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 23 | It seemed to go on for ever , until the far-off staccato bursts of a Uzi cut into the surrealistic scene like a surgeon 's knife . |
| 24 | Broken in pieces and razor-sharp , they seemed to go on for ever . |
| 25 | I suddenly had the sense that this was going to go on for ever and the conversation became an argument . |
| 26 | It seemed to go on for ever . |
| 27 | In particular , Marian liked to see the finish of a case when as a solicitor a case ‘ seemed to go on for ever ’ . |
| 28 | The moment seemed to go on for ever , impossibly long-drawn-out . |
| 29 | And then she dived and rattled down the dirt-track which seemed to go on for ever across an empty hillside . |
| 30 | Our universe might be like that — it might have an infinite number of galaxies — but if so , it will have to go on for ever in all directions and would n't be the sort where an astronaut could do a round trip in a straight line . |