Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I really must get on with other things . ’
2 We 'll go on with routine procedure for now . ’
3 ‘ When the alarms go off in the house , they 'll go on in Central Station .
4 Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope .
5 Thus they could move on to running ‘ Quality as a Business ’ , and more recently ‘ Post Zero Defects ’ .
6 Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 .
7 I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances .
8 So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none .
9 Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't .
10 Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury .
11 If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut .
12 ‘ Then you could get on with real issues such as a transport policy instead of a scheme to privatise it .
13 O K , let's move on to maximum benefit .
14 Successful work using primary evidence may lead on to creative expression , which may come from a synthesis of the information gathered from the documentary evidence .
15 But since we are in agreement , let's go on to other things .
16 When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories .
17 He had in those days of innocence seen the Edition as a finite task that would lead on to other things .
18 And since the central figure in all this was Vincent d'Indy , I shall go on to present evidence that appears to explain his motives both in ‘ improving ’ Rameau and in concealing what he had done .
19 Like a true professional , Floyd was determined the show would go on for New Year 's Eve at his pub , the Maltsters Arms .
20 Like all long-term coughers he had developed a noise-reducing technique , and all that could be heard was a chuck-chuck-chuck sound that would go on for long minutes at a time , gradually winding down like a clockwork drummer until every scrap of air was squeezed out of his poor concrete lungs .
21 ‘ Kelly believed she , too , would go on to other things that God planned for her . ’
22 ‘ Kelly believed she too would go on to other things God had got planned for her . ’
23 Spend the immediate post-Smiths period saying how he was the talented one and would go on to great things .
24 Complaints may come on from suppressed emotions or vexations .
25 Complaints may come on from electric changes in the atmosphere .
26 There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity .
27 She will move on to simple arithmetic , addition then subtraction .
28 In the Profitboss 's team Hilda in Telephone Sales will not simply " take orders " but will sell on to interested customers .
29 Psychological studies could provide some answers , but it is not obvious that the subprocesses of language , identified by the psychologist , will map on to individual brain areas , any more than the computational processes of a digital computer map on to individual parts of its hardware .
30 The other Andeans say they will go on with free trade without Ecuador , if need be .
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