Example sentences of "[to-vb] on like [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought Mum was much too old to carry on like that . ’ |
| 2 | Well he 's going to carry on like that is n't he ? |
| 3 | Robert wondered how this particular breakaway section of a breakaway section of the Nizari Ismailis had managed to carry on like this in Wimbledon for the last seventy years . |
| 4 | ‘ Why does he always have to go on like that ? ’ |
| 5 | but I ca n't afford to go on like that you see |
| 6 | ‘ He tells me I wo n't be able to go on like this , but he knows how important it is to my life , ’ Edwards reasoned . |
| 7 | ‘ How much longer are you going to go on like this ? ’ |
| 8 | We there was n't room for a three piece suite sort of thing and then you 'd have a sideboard and a table , chairs to sit on like hard chairs , wooden chairs like kitchen chairs . |
| 9 | Is love meant to glow on like this for a while after the set has been switched off ? |
| 10 | Boys who did not , remained in the elementary-school system ( in , as will appear , most cases ) to linger on like dispossessed giants until the system and my grandfather let go of them at the age of fourteen . |
| 11 | It was mad to charge on like this . |