Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] on [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the hon. Member for Sedgefield , once a programme is introduced it must carry on for ever , regardless of whether it is the most effective way of achieving those aims . |
| 2 | Henceforth she must carry on from where she had started that momentous morning in Goddy 's office . |
| 3 | DCE Call Directory Service and DCE Security Service , which must feature on at least one machine in a DCE environment cost $2,500 each . |
| 4 | DCE Call Directory Service and DCE Security Service which must feature on at least one machine in a DCE environment cost $2,500 each . |
| 5 | We must ride on at once and get out of the hills before dark . ’ |
| 6 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
| 7 | Hold on c can we sort of stop this now or we 'll go on for ever |
| 8 | It 'll go on for much longer . |
| 9 | ‘ And then we 'll go on from there . ’ |
| 10 | Well yes okay that 's a possibility and that 's something that we 'll come on to tomorrow . |
| 11 | So you could carry on along there . |
| 12 | I could go on about how many different sounds you can muster from Marshall 's new baby , but there are just so many that this would be unrealistic . |
| 13 | Not that it could go on for ever . |
| 14 | But Nails could go on for ever . |
| 15 | I wished this could go on for ever but I realised that all too soon I would have to return . |
| 16 | Children could go on for ever finding out information about dinosaurs and be no nearer satisfying this vague purpose . |
| 17 | She knew from experience that if she started a conversation with the girls about anything other than business , it could go on for ever , and Christina did not have time to listen to Todney 's domestic problems this morning . |
| 18 | ROS : It could go on for ever . |
| 19 | Reynolds seemed to realise that such objections could go on for ever , so he said , ‘ Yes . |
| 20 | If only the pantomime could go on for ever . |
| 21 | so be aware that you do n't want to ramble on too long or this appointment could go on for ever and a day . |
| 22 | I am not writing to discuss the subject of inflation although give a soap-box to stand on I could go on for ever . |
| 23 | Presumably there 's so many songs in your repertoire that you you 've no need really to get a new one er you as artists might want to get a new one but you 've got so many er evergreens I mean you could go on for ever with just the evergreens could n't you ? |
| 24 | The raid had been a triumphant vindication of Stirling 's theory that his unit could operate regardless of the phase of the moon and could get on to heavily defended targets . |
| 25 | Thus Aintree 's recall man for the past seven years became the sacrificial offering so that the Jockey Club bigwigs could get on with more important business like tarting themselves up for Ascot and tea with the Royals . |
| 26 | Let's move on to perhaps some of the legal aspects and some of the areas where we are actually concerned about violence at the moment . |
| 27 | At first my mam and dad were n't pleased about me falling pregnant , and they used to go on about how was I going to manage . |
| 28 | Now Sammy was a character in himself he was a bachelor and his wi his sister was Fanny the elocutionist er and , and er there the women used to , to go into old Sammy 's shop on a Friday night simply to be entertained by all the wisecracks and nonsense that used to go on in there , and somebody would say I suppose you 're off this weekend and he 'd say yes I 'm off to my little widow in Wales , he had n't got a little widow in Wales at all now but it would the start of the conversation going . |
| 29 | What else used to go on in there in the way of activities you mentioned billiards and card games and dancing ? |
| 30 | She always does — without much faith in what she is doing , like those anti-fascist chores she used to take on until recently ( I should n't talk about that really ) . |