Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv prt] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reasons for this phenomenon is as follows : firstly , each lender has its own system of calculating gross interest and secondly , when base rates rise or fall , lenders are at liberty to delay or hurry up passing on the benefits/bad news to their customers . |
| 2 | It was getting late , and not many folk would stay up carousing on the night before a Recovery . |
| 3 | They just let you go on buying on the never-never . |
| 4 | I could n't go on speculating on the might have-beens of Stavanger 's life , for there was work to do . |
| 5 | He said what he thought teams could end up playing on the pitches without paying for them , and it would be up to the council whether it called police to remove the players . |
| 6 | At the same time this was an occasion for using the telephone , not cables , teletexes or letters which could be misdirected or might end up lying on the desks of the wrong people . |
| 7 | Soon she would get down to work on the garden ; it would be something to do at the weekends . |
| 8 | We can pick up recording on the way home again . |
| 9 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |