Example sentences of "[be] [verb] on with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am to remain ill and without treatment , I am to carry on with the exhausting task of caring for an old and senile woman . ’ |
| 2 | In any case , if any of the pupils are to go on with the language at A level , they will simply have to learn some grammar at some stage . |
| 3 | It is in the interview that many of these aspects of the post are checked on with the candidate . |
| 4 | ‘ I see you 're getting on with the boots for Edward Morris 's nephew , doing a good job too by the look of it . ’ |
| 5 | Just as most large organizations and systems have found important uses for the computer in accounting and housekeeping operations , so also large libraries , whether public , academic or special , have tended to put their acquisitions and other operations on to computer , and considerable experiment has been going on with the applications of computerization to information retrieval . |
| 6 | We will get over it and I am getting on with the work in hand . ’ |
| 7 | We are moving on with the medical services . |
| 8 | They 're occupying themselves writing out an account of their movements since Lorrimer was last seen alive and the local force are getting on with the preliminary checking of alibis . |
| 9 | But we accept that there is not a customer for this work and we are getting on with the job of ensuring that the business as a whole continues to develop positively . |
| 10 | But trampolining wo n't be catching on with the other animals . |
| 11 | ‘ At the moment the bill looks likely to receive the royal assent in early April , so if the election is later than that then we will be pressing on with the plans . |
| 12 | They may only be carried on with the local authority 's consent , and |
| 13 | So you wo n't have to shuffle the chops or the toast , when you could be getting on with the vegetables . |
| 14 | The firm 's number of assignments has doubled since 1979 — from about 70 carried out by five consultants to around 150 handled by nine — and its annual fee income in London now exceeds £3m. profits are shared equally by the partners worldwide , and all new consultants are taken on with the view that they will ultimately become partners . |
| 15 | We need to sort out the EC 's finances if we are to get on with the community 's enlargement . |
| 16 | It may be that money worries are behind the disappearnce , but there 's no firm evidence to support that and police are carrying on with the investigation because there may yet be another explanation . |
| 17 | ‘ We are carrying on with the wedding as planned . ’ |
| 18 | If she is lucky , the congaie and her mentis children are passed on with the furniture to the next occupant of the house . |
| 19 | In the meantime , they were pressing on with the task of handing leaflets to anyone prepared to take one , and taking limited encouragement from the presence of a junior Labour front-bencher , Kate Hoey , at their conference fringe meeting . |
| 20 | Mr Haydn Cook , chief executive of the Friarage , said negotiations were going on with the Scorton hospital about its contract for the forthcoming year . |
| 21 | ‘ I was asking , Preston , how you were getting on with the Devil . ’ |
| 22 | We do not send you copies of every letter we write , minutes of every meeting we attend , etc because we assumed you would realise we were getting on with the job . |
| 23 | The group is pressing on with the expansion and development of NET but really needs the embryonic United States economic recovery to develop swiftly if short term returns are to improve . |
| 24 | I say this largely because of what is going on with the black blues artists , like Albert King , BB King , Albert Collins . |
| 25 | Okay right so there 's a s there 's a system to what 's going on with the acids and it 's not just one acid like hydrochloric most of the acids will do it some of them do it very readily some of them you have to get the conditions right often you have to get the temperature high to make it to make the reaction go but a metal plus an acid erm there 's a typical one zinc H two S O four gives zinc sulphate and the hydrogen . |
| 26 | Not with all these murders that 's going on with the cos there was that girl was n't there ? |
| 27 | Well it certainly is , and we think that we 've had an examin of our co , examination of the constitution , we 've made a number of changes , but the task for Labour now is to press on with the issues of looking at our policies , and making sure that our economic policy and our social policy a actually meets the changes that are out their in the world . |
| 28 | Mr Sugar is ploughing on with the rationalisation announced last year . |
| 29 | ‘ I must say , I admire the way he 's soldiering on with the course , ’ said Melissa . |
| 30 | The Touring Guarantee is valid for four years from the date of purchase of a new Mercedes and is passed on with the car if it is sold during that period . |