Example sentences of "[to-vb] on in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After various consultations with interested parties , it was decided to carry on in the traditional manner . |
| 2 | Even then it should not apply where all that the Purchaser does is to carry on in the ordinary course of the business . |
| 3 | Lights began to go on in the dark houses , and I relished my melancholy to the last drop . |
| 4 | However , unless I want junk food from one of the many establishments purveying it in this thoroughly commercialised station , all I have available to sit on in the huge concourse is a grubby metal flip-up slat a few inches wide . |
| 5 | Lion Cavern came from last in a race run at a slow early pace , to get up in the finalstrides and score by a head from long-time leader River Falls , with Swing Low a further length away third , and Rodrigo de Triano failing to run on in the final furlong and weakening for fourth . |
| 6 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 7 | Look how difficult it is for women to get on in the medical or legal profession ! |