Example sentences of "[to-vb] on [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Sir Geoffrey were to ask you to carry on for a bit longer , would you be willing to do so ? " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Mellor told Mr Major he felt unable to carry on in a phone call early yesterday morning . |
| 4 | I 'd like you to go on to a university and do music , but I think you 'll do that anyway , and I 'd like you to stop playing other instruments . |
| 5 | ‘ Mouse ’ was to go on to a succession of schools — at all of which he was unhappy — and to Oxford , where he was run over by a train under circumstances which strongly suggested suicide . |
| 6 | At Holy Trinity , Brompton , all four priests are Old Etonians , one of the churchwardens is a former private secretary of Margaret Thatcher 's , and it is not unknown for members of the congregation to go on to a wedding reception in St James 's Palace . |
| 7 | My dear Theo , I wrote to you already early this morning , then I went away to go on with a picture of a garden in the sunshine . |
| 8 | And what started as a language-game had to go on as a lie , or a myth . |
| 9 | This silly and childlike regressive behaviour can not be allowed to go on in a relationship in which a couple care for one another . |
| 10 | If knowing how to go on in a discipline is largely a matter of rule-following , it remains the case that the rules are as much socially imposed by the disciplinary tribe as they are by epistemic considerations ( Becher 1989 ) . |
| 11 | That joint 's got to go on by a quarter to , or goodness knows what time dinner will be ready . ’ |
| 12 | The areas you need to work on after a marathon are the hamstrings , the quads and the hips . |
| 13 | Sew a ring in the centre of the band to slip on to a cup hook . |
| 14 | SCIENTISTS are beginning to catch on to a technique with the space-age name of FAB-MS ( fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry ) . |
| 15 | At £17.50 a ticket , I expected the band to come on for a bit longer or were they all dashing off to see Lady Chatterley too ? |
| 16 | Because we do send people erm er sorry send , we ask people to come on to a training course which we fully expense . |
| 17 | Please note that we have arranged a special performance on Saturday at 5.00 pm — to help our patrons who wish to come on after a matinee , and/or go on to another evening performance . |
| 18 | Is the paper so glossy that it is difficult to write on with a highlighting pen ? |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Clive Lloyd is one of the best-loved cricketers ever to walk on to a field , but after the relentless domination of his four-man pace attack there must have been many people who permitted themselves a smile at the news . |
| 21 | No , it 's only when you run out of that stuff , cos you ca n't expect them to manage on like a bowl of soup or something can you ? |
| 22 | Ian Leckie , Quakers ' community development officer , said : ‘ The traditional approach has been to run on with a bucket and the magic sponge . ’ |
| 23 | It came away from the wall and he had to grab on to a crate to stop himself overbalancing . |
| 24 | Variously ascribed to Andrea di Lione , Pietro Testa and Mattia Preti , it is a fascinating art-historical curiosity , that in my opinion is sufficiently unusual to hang on to a while longer . |
| 25 | The Danish star failed to hang on to a shot from Steve Clarke and the ball ran away from him for Gavin Peacock to sweep it home and stun the United fans . |
| 26 | She was asked to hang on for a moment . |
| 27 | They are much more likely to hold on to a degree of independence . |
| 28 | Consequently , he is continually having to hold on to a sense of humility while he listens to other people , otherwise he can too easily defend himself by taking up a judgemental posture . |
| 29 | What we should remember , however , is that workers have not always had the same kinds of experiences I have just described and have , consequently , been able to hold on to a sense of political relatedness between themselves as individuals and groups vis-à-vis society and the industrial enterprises within it . |
| 30 | Trying to snatch a word with you is like trying to hold on to a fistful of quicksilver . ’ |