Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] on [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kohl has decided to go on with a fast-breeder reactor in Kalkar on the Rhine , although development costs have quadrupled to 6–5 billion DM . |
| 2 | I refer instead to my pet rat , who I have decided to pass on to a new owner due to our having a cat . |
| 3 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 4 | In 1967 he wrote : ‘ Human beings will become so used to being crushed together that when they are on their own , they will suffer withdrawal symptoms : ‘ Doctor — I 've got to get on to a crowded train soon or I 'll go mad ’ . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got to get on with a job I 'm paid to do . ’ |
| 6 | Since there was never anything at all gratuitously coarse or vulgar about Karajan 's music-making , it is true that he never attempted to graft on to a score like Verdi 's Falstaff additional jokes or belly-laughs . |
| 7 | Using a pre-set timer , the lights can be set to stay on for a period from 25 seconds to 12 minutes . |
| 8 | She was asked to hang on for a moment . |
| 9 | A visitor to a public house who is asked to stay on for a private party by the landlord will remain a visitor . |
| 10 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 11 | Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant . |
| 12 | Palace experienced that at Liverpool on Tuesday , when Mike Marsh was allowed to stay on after a professional foul on George Ndah . |
| 13 | And its been a day of tumbling wickets — with Worcestershire forced to follow on after a disastrous morning at the crease … |
| 14 | A few other media met the conditions of technology , but simply failed to catch on with a mass audience . |