Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kitchen floors need to be tough enough to withstand all sorts of spills , grease and damp , comfortable enough to stand on for long periods , and handsome to look at . |
| 2 | And then it may become very angry , and then few would he strong enough to hang on to that leg ! |
| 3 | While Miss Turner left halfway through to go on to another show , Miss Collins popped backstage at the end to congratulate the actress . |
| 4 | Trying to get them not to go on with all this looking and looking , seeing and seeing … |
| 5 | As I said in an earlier chapter , the principle of speaking is not to go on for more than a few minutes without getting your audience to do something — applaud or laugh or raise their hands . |
| 6 | In 1889 the NAS&FU 's instruction to its members not to sign on with any company until all Liverpool shipowners had acceded to its demands stiffened up the resolution of the thirteen principal lines affected . |
| 7 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 8 | On the A four two three , the Kidlington to Banbury road , they expect delays still to go on through much of the evening due to the traffic lights at Bunkers Hill , and on the A four two one , just south of Bicester , the changes to the road layout at the new M forty interchange has made traffic fairly heavy still . |
| 9 | Where politicians have challenged him , he has outmanoeuvred them until such time as he perceived his work to be done ; and then — Vienna 1964 , Berlin 1989 — he simply and quickly stepped aside to move on to fresh projects . |
| 10 | ‘ Successive pairs of celebrities , one to open the envelope and read out the winner 's name , the other to hand over the bauble , live audience and viewers and listeners at home making fun of the acceptance speeches — brevity is brilliance — and executive types rolled out to ramble on about each different category , with entertainment acts in between . ’ |
| 11 | Are we talking about another fifty hectares really to add on to that ? |
| 12 | He sensed her bewilderment and became a shoulder for her to lean on and sometimes to cry on during this painful period . |
| 13 | When the trade unions established the Labour Party as a parliamentary voice for organised labour , they likewise established the ‘ duty to win ’ — to achieve power in Parliament and then to hang on to that power come what may , or put more bluntly , regardless of socialist principle . |
| 14 | They learn how to get on with other children , as most types of outdoor play involve some kind of cooperation — hopscotch , tag or just taking turns on the slide at the playground . |
| 15 | The exercise of cooperating with the other people , even though they 're in the same relative area than in this case it may be use of facilities for leisure , is not very easy and there may be a very very good cause to have a proper course in how to get on with other people , in these sort of cooperative ventures , so thank you for , for drawing our attention to it , it is an interes would be an interesting exercise to . |
| 16 | There is absolutely nothing else to go on at all . ’ |
| 17 | But he speaks the , the wo A Ann was her name , she said that he speaks too softly to go on to that . |