Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asking the candidate to wait on for a few minutes . |
| 2 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 3 | Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant . |
| 4 | The Royal School for Deaf Children , Margate evacuated to Oxfordshire where three large houses were taken over in Goring-on-Thames and the school was able to carry on in a ‘ make-do ’ fashion . |
| 5 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 6 | Instead of thinking that it is natural for a moving object to carry on in a straight line at a steady speed , and then worrying about how the force of gravity manages to pull all objects — heavy ones and light ones — round in the same orbit , what we ought to be doing is thinking of the path they all follow as being the natural path . |
| 7 | Set up under a special government programme in 1989 with funding for three years , it has done so well it is to carry on in a slimmed down form under a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 8 | It has been so successful it is to carry on in a slimmed down form , with a new name Tees Valley Conference and Visitor Bureau under the control of the Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 9 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 10 | At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace . |
| 11 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 12 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 13 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 14 | And every time they put themselves forward to go on to a tra on a training course , they 've actually got to think through , and maybe justify to their line manager , |
| 15 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |
| 16 | As might be expected from data reported earlier , positive attitudes as measured by all five factors were significantly associated with willingness to go on to a second round of review and reporting . |
| 17 | She is full of admiration for the care and attention she is receiving at the hospital but is already looking ahead to the time when she is strong enough to go on to a convalescent home . |
| 18 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 19 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 20 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 21 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 22 | To go on for a long time doing better and better exhibitions . |
| 23 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 24 | Colleagues , it 's approximately four twenty five , what I propose to do is to go on for a short period and to take in the resolutions on the , on your erm Maastricht erm and then we 'll have a look at the time , but I think we should be able to get those in within a , a relatively short period of time . |
| 25 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 26 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 27 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 28 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 29 | The areas you need to work on after a marathon are the hamstrings , the quads and the hips . |
| 30 | In fact , ’ said Owen , his mind beginning to stray on to a quite different tack , ‘ you 're altogether extraordinary — ’ |