Example sentences of "[verb] on with their [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While police in Strathclyde push on with their high-profile weapons amnesty , Operation Blade , the Lothian force has adopted a lower key approach in keeping with the scale of the problem . |
| 2 | It was strange , too , Anne thought , that everyone got on with their normal lives , in spite of the constant raids and disturbed nights , and had become used to seeing servicemen in so many different uniforms thronging the streets and the cinemas , and in the public houses she was sure , although she had never been in one . |
| 3 | There is fat chance of that for as long as the Government allows the banks to carry on with their grasping one-way policy . |
| 4 | ‘ The whole set up is there and yet the other parties want to carry on with their wasteful plans . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ It 's not my intention to stay cooped up in here , waiting for them to go on with their little games . ’ |
| 6 | None of the people on stage knew what was happening , the girls continued to sing their plaintive song and the other men danced on with their own pieces of chiffon , hoping that Ken would go away and disappear for ever . |
| 7 | Unless Blakelock had the early-morning job of checking on Lab security — and this was yet another of the questions to be asked — he and Brenda Pridmore would probably have got on with their normal work at the reception desk . |
| 8 | This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs . |
| 9 | Major areas of application of consumer multimedia include music , games , home education and self-improvement , popular reference , ‘ how to ’ applications such as DIY , car maintenance etc , and child-minding software designed to keep children quiet and entertained while adults get on with their own lives for short but blissful periods of time . |
| 10 | Everybody gets on with their own lives and old links get used less and less till they 're forgotten , and before you know it , people are dead and gone and it 's too late . |
| 11 | Glasgow , Liverpool , Newcastle and Leeds pressed on with their extensive highway systems , but other cities abandoned them and by the mid-1970s an urban road policy in the context of an explicit town planning framework was stood on its head . |
| 12 | The variation in the proportion of students carrying on with their full-time education was large , as Table 4.4 shows . |
| 13 | Perhaps the prince and princess can now get on with their official duties without all this speculation about their marriage . ’ |
| 14 | We can provide a small group with a stimulus in the play area and let them get on with their own play , occasionally intervening ( as described below ) . |
| 15 | And you go on from there er , you 've , mm mm , we come and exercise , they do their own , they sweep up they sweep up and then carry on with their ordinary routine of every day . |
| 16 | Sixth-form colleges will be funded on the basis that they carry on with their present practice . |
| 17 | ‘ Just carry on with their usual kind of enquiries : forensic tests , house-to-house visits , appeals for witnesses . |
| 18 | Jeff Hammond , of Willis Corroon , said the service would provide the means of dealing with these potential threats to businesses enabling them to get on with their main task — providing quality products to an ever more aware consumer market . |
| 19 | The overlap with the districts needs to be eradicated , it 's a black hole at the moment , every district can pass a its surplus on to another district , and indeed it would be the last district to prepare a district wide local plan that has to meet the residue of the Greater York requirement , it may maybe a good stimulus for the districts to get on with their local plans , but that 's not an planning way . |
| 20 | Among certain groups living in southern Africa the labia can be as long as seven inches and the owners of such equipment have to push the lips back into the vaginal opening in order to get on with their daily tasks . |
| 21 | Many people wish to be left alone to get on with their own lives and they must be allowed to do so , and there must also be opportunities for different degrees and different kinds of involvement . |
| 22 | How long can you leave the rest of the class to get on with their own work ? |
| 23 | They simply rebuilt the fallen walls , and carried on with their normal efficient and highly organized lives ; they did not associate the earthquake with Vesuvius , and there was no particular reason why they should . |