Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A taxi firm run by women for women says it plans to carry on operating despite a ruling that such services discriminate against men . |
| 2 | Because of their youth and vulnerability , and since they were less likely to be union members , apprentices and turnovers might be persuaded by employers to carry on working during a strike . |
| 3 | The general idea , using these methods , was to carry on recording until a quota sample of sixteen people in each area had been filled . |
| 4 | ‘ Folly , I do n't want you to go on looking for a place of your own . |
| 5 | It also allows the police and Customs to permit accountants to go on acting for a client after they have disclosed suspicious activity to them . |
| 6 | But I would hope , I mean it has given me the the wish to go on living in a similar kind of situation . |
| 7 | Or would it be a sign of still greater maturity for their staff to go on contributing to a national system , a system in which the collaboration of the entire academic community could raise standards higher and judge quality more surely ? |
| 8 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 9 | It 's been bad enough walking about with my insides falling out and knowing people were looking and having to keep on behaving like a healthy young virgin who 's never had anything to do with a man . |