Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] on [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a recent survey by the Management Information Centre showed , 70% of small and medium sized practices around the country find audits increasingly unprofitable as a result of the costs of audit regulation — which they can not pass on to clients — combined with client pressure on fees . |
| 2 | Thus a query and its settlement could easily drag on for hours . |
| 3 | So we stick to arguing about power within I say a party , and we do not get on about policies and programmes . |
| 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 | It 's a bit like psittacosis , the infectious disease parrots suffer from , which they can also pass on to humans . |
| 6 | Do you know I if you ask Andrea about it , anything she 'll probably go on for ages , and ages , and ages , and ages ! |
| 7 | The litigation will probably drag on for years . |
| 8 | Indeed , those effects may well go on for generations , as a troubled parent will often produce troubled offspring of his own . |
| 9 | Why ca n't they simply get on with things ? |
| 10 | Then he could jolly well get on with things — and came out into the passage . |
| 11 | Given such prompts , some informants may then go on for hours with their recollections and reminiscences . |