Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so . |
| 2 | Prean , still unbeaten , showed that he is performing as well as at any time in his career when he outplayed Andrei up to 20-17 in the second game and then comfortably recovered from the disappointment of missing four match points to go on to a 21-8 , 22-24 , 21-13 win . |
| 3 | Raisins were first included in American cookies only six years ago , but the idea has caught on with a vengeance . |
| 4 | While I admire the saddle-stitching on the suitcase , Karl has moved on to a conference about the length of Gisela 's fringe . |
| 5 | He has stayed on as a special adviser and in April will start teaching at his alma mater , Chuo University . |
| 6 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 7 | But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’ |
| 8 | The International Institute for Educational Planning held an important and , I understand , effective regional seminar on education evaluation in Dar es Salaam in 1975 which has led on to a certain degree of follow-up in a number of countries . |
| 9 | ‘ What has made it particularly difficult , for manufacturers of all sizes , but most of all for smaller ones , is that it has gone on for a long time . |
| 10 | The medal , presented by the Duke of Edinburgh at Buckingham Palace , is awarded each year to a holder of a City & Guilds qualification who has gone on to a senior management position in their chosen field . |
| 11 | The thing has gone on in a different way from previous years , and the outcome , as you 've observed , although the Liberal Democrats initially proposed spending at capping , they have gone down by half a million pounds . |
| 12 | Bob did not retire immediately as he has worked on for a few months to introduced new salesmen to their areas . |
| 13 | ‘ But you want to stay on for a couple more days ? |
| 14 | Yeah he is he has put on about a stone since he 's stopped smoking though |
| 15 | erm there are times , perhaps , when one feels this is a little bit dull and wants to skip on for a page or two , but I suspect that that is the case with most novels that one would want to read nowadays . |
| 16 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 17 | ‘ It all seemed to go on for a long time , but it must have been just a few seconds . ’ |
| 18 | It seemed to go on for a long time . |
| 19 | It seemed to go on for a very long time . |
| 20 | ‘ It seemed to go on for an awfully long time . |
| 21 | At first it was like leaning into a thick , inert sponge , and that seemed to go on for an age . |
| 22 | At the Passover Eve meal the stories of the plagues are recited , and with each one a finger is dipped in a glass of wine and a drop of the wine let fall on to a plate . |
| 23 | Hounded to her death by a cruel mother-in-law , neglected by her husband … the same husband who 'd carried on with a woman when she was hardly cold in her grave . |
| 24 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 25 | In due course , and all too soon , the excitement of the scenery fades as the road declines through woodland to the only buildings , the Nature Reserve of Inverpolly , there crossing the River Polly and climbing over a bare moorland dominated by Stac Polly , here seen end on as a slender spire , and then finally joins the Ullapool-Achiltibuie road . |
| 26 | She 'd gone on into a book-lined room which appeared to be in use as an office , and she was placing the shotgun along with two others in a locking steel cabinet . |
| 27 | A MOTHER who says she is homeless has been told she will not be rehoused after refusing to move on to an estate . |
| 28 | Loads should be divided equally before carrying them , so that there is no one-sided strain — and remember not to twist your back as you dump shopping on to a car seat . |
| 29 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 30 | There must still be some people alive who recall going on to a Sunday School outing from Leicester to Foxton ; parties would travel to Market Harborough by train and either by boat or cart to Foxton . |