Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The radio set can remain on for hours at a time ; you can enjoy it as background to reading , writing , homework , housework … . |
| 2 | It pays to examine all gutter brackets and clips to ensure no water will drip on to walls . |
| 3 | A RECORD number of 16-year-olds will stay on at schools and colleges next month — but for many it is simply a way of avoiding the dole queue . |
| 4 | So what is incorporated in there , is the minimum that you could ever survive on in terms of running a totally enabling authority . |
| 5 | Fear of losing our grip may make us hang on to jobs for longer than we should , in an attempt to reassure ourselves . |
| 6 | They reckon investors should hang on to shares in both National Power and Powergen . |
| 7 | To find out what tickets are available , how much they cost & c you first ring Ticket Call ( 0891–121680 ) where you pay money through your nostril to hear someone bloater on about competitions and how to enter them before you get the info you rang for . |
| 8 | The Monkey Clock has two arms which can hook on to shelves and the like . |
| 9 | They can carry on as members of the TGWU ? |
| 10 | Four new projects will follow on from EDS , but under Esprit II intellectual property rules , each consortium member can now take the results of the project and use them commercially . |
| 11 | Denis Smith says there 's no match you can bank on for points but as long as they get results they do n't care where they come from . |
| 12 | YOU MAY sneer — God knows , my upper lip has been twitching like the pelvis of Elvis throughout this re-birth — but it is odd how bands can trundle on for decades , blithely ignored , while Madness were thrust back into a critical firing line . |
| 13 | Okay shall we move on to billboards ? |
| 14 | Erm so we 'll move on to matters arising and Alan has asked me er in the role erm erm of chairman . |
| 15 | Then they would move on to acquaintances who were ruining their careers doing television . |
| 16 | Can we move on to minerals considerations ? |
| 17 | There had been suggestions that he would move on after problems with his choice of selectors . |
| 18 | Many hot-spot plants are aromatic and , since patios and terraces are usually paved , this quality can be enhanced by allowing plants to trail or spill on to flagstones — which get hot in the sunshine — so that the aromatic oils which give them their scent are literally vaporised and perfume the air . |
| 19 | If you leave gates open animals may stray on to roads , trample crops or get lost . |
| 20 | How long should I hold on to records ? |
| 21 | The almost incredible hotchpotch of superstitions , beliefs and ‘ gods ’ which are promoted by the hierarchies of all the great organised religions in their ceaseless struggle to obtain and hold on to adherents , leaves the earnest seeker after a true spiritual haven bewildered and unsatisfied . |
| 22 | Yeah I know he does hold on to things really tight |
| 23 | Any reader is entitled to ask what purpose such national anthologies serve ; their best justification is making art more accessible , enabling those living artists represented to find and hold on to audiences for their work . |
| 24 | Absolutely , yes , I mean , I followed an entirely erm conventional format for the agenda here , I mean we , do we have a , all I was thinking of doing was checking whether these minutes are a true representation of last week , and if they are , we 'll press on to matters arising , yes ? |
| 25 | But although recent decisions by Oxfordshire County Council and South Oxfordshire District Council have gone against the club , managing director , Pat McGere , says he 'll press on with efforts to have the club relocated from the Manor Ground . |
| 26 | One could go on with provisos of this kind , or with hints as to procedure in this or that case , for pages . |
| 27 | How do these go on with catalogues then ? |
| 28 | We 'd go on to gigs or to parties or out to eat . |
| 29 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 30 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |