Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You keep the paper , I 'll haud on to the cigars . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ If we knew where one of these things was going to be flown into space , ’ he said , speaking quickly before the words had time to escape , ‘ and we could sort of hang on to the sides or whatever , or maybe drive it like the Truck , and we took you with us , then we could jump off when we got up there and go and find this ship of ours , could n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | Or — and something came apart in his stomach and turned a revolution and plummeted downwards — were they all politely and patiently waiting with well-controlled longing because it would not be too long now before they could get home and carry on with the lives they preferred without him ? |
| 4 | This is not sad because the important part of humanity , its ability to respond emotionally , will carry on in the androids . |
| 5 | Layton used to go to Leonard 's flat each morning where they would work for three hours or so , though sometimes letting the work run on through the afternoons . |
| 6 | So when did you actually move on to the flats ? |
| 7 | Well okay this morning what I 'd like to do in the half hour or so that we 've got before lunch is to talk about the skills we need when we actually come up here to deliver then this afternoon we 'll look at that feedback from the video and what you did and then we 'll move on to the skills of design , the preparation skills . |
| 8 | Now let's move on to the accessories that are available for these machines . |
| 9 | Let's move on to the pages I 've got to the actual format here . |
| 10 | Let's move on to the birthdays and the anniversaries . |
| 11 | From the behavioural point of view , the principal male characteristic is sadistic sexual egoism , since is it clear that only the male who is capable of driving off his rivals can hold on to the females of the breeding group . |
| 12 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |
| 13 | Do n't hold on by the reins whatever you do . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ You must go on with the preparations as though you were alone . |
| 15 | He or she would decide whether cases should go on to a Children 's Hearing before the Children 's Panel , or whether to take no further action . |
| 16 | Can we go on to the minutes of the committee meeting of sixth December then . |
| 17 | Because you 'd sort of , they , they 'd go up and then if , if you went any farther you 'd go on to the doctors ' lectures you see . |
| 18 | For myself , I would let the others go on to the caves and pass the time instead above ground in the large riverside village of Saint-Pé ( the Gascon form of Pierre ) -de-Bigorre , which has a nicely arcaded square and a few pleasing remains of its old abbey church , once the grandest religious building in the Pyrenees but now part in effect of the dull parish church that later replaced it , after it had been fired by Protestant arsonists in the Wars of Religion . |
| 19 | It explained the problems although we were a bit — we 'll go on to the cons in a minute . |
| 20 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 21 | If , as expected , Mr Papandreou also fails to form a government , the mandate will automatically pass on to the Communists . |
| 22 | thing you could pass on to the police and they could take it up with the local council . |
| 23 | Over 100 Dale Farm milkmen have also been issued with incident report cards which they can pass on to the police through their depot manager . |
| 24 | ‘ Shall I get on with the letters ? ’ |
| 25 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
| 26 | Let's get on with the clothes . |
| 27 | ‘ How did you get on with the piglets ? ’ |
| 28 | Then they can get on with the jobs they are paid for . ’ |
| 29 | Even so , this is a shortened Session , and as we must wait until next year for the start of a fourth Conservative term in office , we must now get on with the measures contained in the Gracious Speech . |
| 30 | ‘ How did they get on with the Zosers ? |