Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , I find yoga a bit slow and I like to exercise to music , so I moved on to popmobility-type aerobics which I named ‘ slimobility ’ . |
| 2 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 3 | Throughout the whole process I looked on in wronged silence , like a wife . |
| 4 | The next night I went on without Dutch courage and flattened a drunken heckler with a couple of speedy put-downs that came from nowhere ( 't was I , your valiant defence mechanism again ) and a new career was born . |
| 5 | So I went on to reciprocal for 10 minutes to seek a more friendly environment , which I did , and then set course again . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyway , when I went on to high school , I moved over to '70s American stuff — Television , The dB 's , Richard Hell And The Voidoids , Alex Chilton and Big Star . |
| 7 | Before I move on to other contributions , can I remind everybody that we are dealing with the Employee Resources Report . |
| 8 | I move on to Labour motion one six . |
| 9 | Erm , we are indeed talking to Health Authority about the matters that were mentioned but can I come on to occupational therapists because I 'm very glad to say that erm we are able to recruit occupational therapists in this county . |
| 10 | She goes on in formulaic terms : ( " He [ my husband ] loves me and I love him well ; our love is as true as steel " ) |
| 11 | They tell you to go on with artificial respiration for ever , for long after you 've given up hope . |
| 12 | Cogan was a Fifties singer who died tragically young ; but in Burns ' brilliant intermingling of fact and fiction , she lives on into middle age to examine her portrait in the basement of the Tate , meet her most obsessive fan , and discover her strange links with Moors murderer Myra Hindley . |
| 13 | ‘ Next question , ’ she moved on with wan humour . |
| 14 | Yeah , but she hung on like blue death ! |
| 15 | Talking of bitches , how are you getting on with old Sinbad in Cas. ? ’ |
| 16 | How you get on with other people . |
| 17 | Suddenly she was in shadow and only the upper sky was lit with fingers of smoky orange and then an acid burnt lemon from the disappeared orb , but she walked on round unfamiliar roads in what was rapidly becoming dusk . |
| 18 | And with the vague , uneasy sense that , having forced the door open a little way , the country on the other side might prove a lot stranger than she 'd ever imagined , she walked on in subdued silence for a while . ) |
| 19 | ‘ And so you signed on with International Models ? ’ |
| 20 | This is before you move on to environmental impact , the feeling of the community , and what the planners think : considerations whose complexity rises exponentially with the size and prominence of a site , and the number of bodies who have interests in the exercise . |
| 21 | If you carry on through New Polzeath , Polzeath and Trebetherick the path emerges at Daymer Bay . |
| 22 | He asked after Fred 's new play and she ran on with unconvincing enthusiasm about a young actress who was going to be in it . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 24 | Teeth clenched , she held on like grim death , determined not to embarrass Penry Vaughan with a fit of hysterics just because she was in a boat again . |
| 25 | She travelled on to western Georgia and reached the Black Sea , but there her journeys ended as she suffered an infection from the bite of a tick which resulted in her death in Kutaisi , the west Georgian capital , 22 September 1840 . |
| 26 | It was in this way that Maurice , with the two of them clinging on for dear life , put out on the tide . |
| 27 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 28 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 29 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 30 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |