Example sentences of "[verb] on [prep] [pos pn] new " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's got nothing better to do than keep nagging on about our new garden fence . |
| 2 | For example , in Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris [ 1978 ] 1 All ER 1026 Megaw LJ said : … it is appropriate that a covenant , restricting an employee from full freedom of taking other employment when he leaves his existing employment , should be included in the contract of employment where there is a real danger that the employee will in the course of that employment have access to and gain information about matters which could fairly be regarded as trade secrets ; and that applies even though the information may be carried in his head and even though ( perhaps , particularly though ) it may be extremely difficult for the employee himself , being an honest and scrupulous man , to realise that what he is passing on to his new employers is matter which ought to be treated as confidential to his old employers . |
| 3 | He had liaised closely with him as a handler until his transfer to the Operations Planning Department , but Whitlock never really got on with his new handler and jumped at the chance to work with Philpott again . |
| 4 | Then she started going on about her new red tap-shoes , and how the music nun wanted to teach her violin because she had such good pitch , and we all joined up in a long line , each with a hand stretched out on to the should of the one in front , and we began to march round her , chanting very softly , " How green you are , how green you are , how green you are , how green … " and then louder and louder as we danced away from her still in our long Indian file , till we got right to the top of our street where we played another game altogether , totally ignoring the yells of fury from the lamp-post , and when our mums called us in to tea we all ran in and forgot about her . |
| 5 | Jonathon pressed on with his new model . |
| 6 | Yeah how 's how 's getting on with her new school ? |
| 7 | How are you getting on with your new housemates ? ’ |
| 8 | In the face of the open dissent of Prior , Pym , Walker , and Gilmour , and even some resistance from the Chancellor of the Exchequer himself , the Prime Minister , urged on by her newest economic adviser , Professor Alan Walters , forced through the most resolutely anti-Keynesian budget of modern times . |
| 9 | Mr Mallory perceived that his ice was warm and half melted inside its chocolate coating , and that it was dripping on to his new suit . |
| 10 | IN THE unlikely event that Stephen Hargrave , youthful former chairman of Pathfinders Group , does not get on with his new boss Hugo Biermann — who recently reversed into the company — he now has another venture to concentrate on . |
| 11 | All of these activities meant that he could not get on with his new play , of which the first two scenes were already drafted and which he had planned , tentatively , to finish in time for the Edinburgh Festival of 1952 . |
| 12 | Fig 28 Once round on to the new tack , the board is steered on to its new course by leaning the rig forwards . |