Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] on [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 2 | You 'll find me banging on about how great the ‘ Back In Denim ’ LP is elsewhere in this issue so you can drop most of the theories there . |
| 3 | No , I hold on in there till the last moment . |
| 4 | Well erm I actually stopped smoking about er , two years ago and was quite surprised at the amount of weight I put on in about five months , which was two stone , which I did n't think I 'd deserved ! |
| 5 | someone going on about how they think you should understand it . |
| 6 | But he says I gets on like quite well with Peter and |
| 7 | I walked on for perhaps forty yards and stopped , lighting a cigarette and looking vaguely in his direction . |
| 8 | Lunch over , I walked on to where the Coast to Coast Path and Pennine Way cross above Ease Gill Force . |
| 9 | But I go on for ever … ‘ |
| 10 | I think the rain and I went on for about three hours . |
| 11 | So I went on until just after refreshment time : Spoke to Mr so-and-so — lots of things in my book . |
| 12 | so that eight sevens are fifty six and I carry on from there , but you ca n't do that |
| 13 | Right now I do n't want to get you up I want to encourage you to set your alarm for seven o'clock , quite low , and when I come on at about two minutes past just snuggle up to your wireless and enjoy the music and the news and the views about the religious scene in and around North Yorkshire and beyond . |
| 14 | His flicks on into nowhere used to infuriate me . |
| 15 | How many erm are already signed up at this present day for someone to follow on to now ? |
| 16 | Talks incessantly to the point of forgetting what the original question was , using long , rambling sentences which go on for so long that the interviewee ca n't remember where they started . |
| 17 | She had plenty to get on with meanwhile . |
| 18 | Larkin , in his poem , had paused at the door of a village church to make sure there was nothing going on before modestly venturing in as a tourist . |
| 19 | She 'd be sent to her room and hear them going on about how if it was n't for The Child — her — everything would be different and it would have ended years ago . |
| 20 | ‘ So she goes on about how wise he is , and what a brilliant speaker and … |
| 21 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 22 | That brass ring at her neck , attached to the zip all the way down that dress , like the ring you hold on to when you leap from a plane , plunging in free fall till you dare no more , then you pull the ring down , down and float in airy freedom , master of all you survey . |
| 23 | You hold on to there . |
| 24 | Some of them were some had got old cars in where the tyres , if it was a puncture it was these great big wheels with beaded edge tyres which you can , you put on in quite a different way from the modern car tyres . |
| 25 | Well fo a at sixteen I went into the department that built the machines and er I was , I think it was bell was going for lunchtime and a lad come by says hello Taffy how you going on in here ? |
| 26 | So Jenny 's afternoon tea , if you hang on in there , I will kindly donate a slice of my apricot cheesecake . |
| 27 | The scientist who hangs on to yesterday 's theory as if it were eternal truth is liable to be dumped on the flat earth — where he belongs . |
| 28 | ‘ How are you getting on over there ? ’ he asked , cautiously . |
| 29 | But he was talking to me , and he said , he said ah how , how you getting on over there , and he went yeah , yeah , it 's alright , you know , but it 's not where I want to be , you know , away from me family . |
| 30 | If it was a bonny day you worked on till sometimes three in the morning they were doing the . |