Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible to let resentment and hurt linger on for years , when it should have been released long before . |
| 2 | I did not need to go on about Jean-Claude 's obstinacy , foolishness and arrogance . |
| 3 | If there is a partial response to this diet , then it is a positive sign , and you should consider going on to Step 4 . |
| 4 | I mean I did not need to stay on at school or get my B.A. at Strathclyde to know when not to F or C. Fuck-me shoes , I just handed them back to the saleslady with as much dignity as I could muster and says , thanks but no thanks , I do n't know when I 'd ever have the occasion to werr them . |
| 5 | This degree of knowledge will not guarantee immunity from mistakes or deceit at the hands of unscrupulous dealers , but it will help to combat the more obvious attempts at misinformation — far more likely than outright deception — and assist in assessing the integrity of any dealer or expert whom one may need to rely on for advice . |
| 6 | How would you feel staying on at school when all your friends had left ? |
| 7 | ‘ I mean , with you home all day and Ernie 's wife saying she 'll come mornings and this Karen , well she wo n't want waiting on like Miss Maynard . |
| 8 | I took this medical test to be a sign that things were happening and that we could hope to go on to Paris , which Alex said was the next staging post . |
| 9 | I wish they 'd stop going on about Christmas for heaven 's sake , . |
| 10 | And then you just do a run , you do n't have to go on to print it at all you just print it off . |
| 11 | I wish I 'd have carried on with piano lessons . |
| 12 | ‘ I thought you might have moved on to Prague . |
| 13 | I should have thought on about Easter being late . ’ |
| 14 | For a moment Montgomery pondered how well Toby Latimer would have got on with Brian Jackson . |
| 15 | She could have gone on for hours . |
| 16 | Anyway back to main point , so up to retirement quite straightforward , no problem at all and this is why he could have gone on for donkey years without a return of income , his salary goes up of course , it 's picked up in the tax tables , his personal allowances do n't change so they could swan along there for so many years without even looking at his affairs , but then see what happens in the very next tax year , when he has n't had a return and may not get a return for a couple of years . |
| 17 | I defended myself stoutly by pointing out that the alternative was to break off negotiations , with a dispute that could have gone on for months at great cost to the health of the nation . |
| 18 | If you had n't made me hate you , it might have gone on for months . ’ |
| 19 | We might have gone on for years like that — me combing the streets for you while pretending to be there on other business ! |
| 20 | Nevertheless , many people who might otherwise have gone on to Government employment schemes have been deterred from doing so because of the difficulty in finding jobs as a result of going on those schemes . |
| 21 | It could just as easily have gone on to Bulak bridge . |
| 22 | I could have gone on of course erm , longer but er I wanted to do erm , I 've always wanted to write and so I 've er been able to do that since . |
| 23 | Perhaps scenting less than total absorption from his audience , he concluded , ‘ Like us , if we 'd have clung on to liveries when it was n't profitable . |
| 24 | Gloria was always telling Dot she should try to hold on to things so she 'd have them as keepsakes for ever . |
| 25 | As irony would have it , however , an examiner that I did have passed on to Rowse the information that , in the paper on Political Institutions , in which I did badly , I had vigorously attacked Rowse 's pamphlet on ‘ The Question of the House of Lords ’ . |
| 26 | So as a result papers would fly round of , I 'm afraid , rather a shallow kind — a last minute dash by some bright brain on a subject which very able people in departments and outside advisers might have worked on for months and months and months . |
| 27 | The New Improving Defence ( but should n't we have held on to Kerslake ? ) |
| 28 | It is all very well to say , as I am sure the hon. Member for Keighley ( Mr. Waller ) will say — because it is what British Rail has said for months — that the great majority of passengers coming into King 's Cross on the channel tunnel trains will go to further destinations by public transport , but there will also be many hundreds of thousands of passengers in a year who will want to be met by friends in cars , who will want to get on to coaches if they are in large parties or who will want to take taxis . |
| 29 | I do n't want to linger on in hospital with tubes and drugs and all that messy business . |
| 30 | The decision as to how many fry the brichardi would allow to grow on to adulthood is in their hands , not yours . |