Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it comes to her imagined transcriptions of Jip 's diary , she goes on in the same descriptive vein for a paragraph , then stops herself with an abrupt exclamation of ‘ No , he would n't say all that ’ ( 54 ) , whereupon she starts again in more concise fashion . |
| 2 | Erm she 's doing numeracy power with them at the moment before she gets on to the because I believe she 's got to sort out some programs for as yet . |
| 3 | A mother may set out some crayons and paper or plasticine while she gets on with the ironing but she should expect to be interrupted and asked for help . |
| 4 | ‘ She waits on in the Twa Dogs now , ’ she said , ‘ a pothouse on the road out to Ireby . ’ |
| 5 | She walks on through the trees , while he capers at her side , an unlikely jester . |
| 6 | Does anyone have any objections if she carries on till the end of the year ? |
| 7 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 8 | Well it 's a bit like that but instead of making it go round all the church it goes on to the tape . |
| 9 | But , you know they can pick it and er , it just flashes up and they have to put the right answer in , if they get the right answer it it goes on to the next one , if it |
| 10 | It goes on to the erm . |
| 11 | Our own sauces , or whatever , erm , if my mother makes a cake , it goes on to the top shelf , but usually we just use everything . |
| 12 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 13 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 14 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 15 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 16 | Have at last worked out how it fits on to the trolley . |
| 17 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 18 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 19 | It lingers on into the first moments of his wakefulness , leaving him unsure what world he 's really in . |
| 20 | Although the scheme seemed to be quietly dropped after the outcry about separating sheep from goats , in essence it lingers on in the policies of the Universities Funding Council ( UFC ) . |
| 21 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 22 | But it lives on in the poems we wrote together , and in the poems I wrote myself in Salamanca and Bath . |
| 23 | Pearce encapsulates it as each generation ensuring that it passes on to the next an undiminished stock of assets , including environmental as well as man-made capital . |
| 24 | After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player . |
| 25 | He hangs on to the hope that he will work with Almodóvar again , but Hollywood and a coterie of internationally-acclaimed directors are now pounding on the door . |
| 26 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 27 | ‘ Thus although , from a technical point of view , the old system of division of labour is thrown overboard , it hangs on in the factory as a tradition handed down from manufacture , and is then systematically reproduced and fixed in a more hideous form by capital as a means of exploiting labour power . |
| 28 | First , it leads on from the cross of Jesus to his resurrection , from condemnation to vindication , from destruction to restoration . |
| 29 | He stays on into the dawn — how quiet |
| 30 | ‘ Clearly , once it gets on to the motorway it can get anywhere . |