Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 4 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 5 | If your players do n't latch on to such throwaways first time , too bad . |
| 6 | There are always gon na be a a set of of people in any area who erm who will latch on to racist attitudes and racist acts if if someone comes in waving that as an you know , as an organized activity . |
| 7 | If the Conservatives are the largest single party , should he hang on as Prime Minister in the hope that he can do a deal with another party ? |
| 8 | When Catherine died , she was all I had left , but you ca n't hang on to young people … they 're not an insurance against loneliness in old age . |
| 9 | Oh could you hang on to that lot a minute . |
| 10 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 11 | The wilfulness of human nature can be deceitful , and we can hang on to old ways like cherished thoughts or possessions . |
| 12 | Flupper would pretend to skid and go out of control : it was terrific — we 'd hang on like grim death to the rope . |
| 13 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 14 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 15 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 16 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 17 | Trained civil staff is much below the normal level and can not carry on without military help . |
| 18 | I ca n't carry on with this indecision . ’ |
| 19 | well , erm tis n't , she 's not , she wants the W R A F and nothing else and Sue said you ca n't be like that , you know , and er , so they 've decided that she 's got ta carry on with this Saturday job because she wo n't be able to go on the dole look , straight away will she ? |
| 20 | Okay well next week we 'll carry on with this material , looking at communication networks . |
| 21 | Do not carry on with large water changes , however , as these only perpetuate the problem . |
| 22 | However , there is a sense in which the particles that make up your body will carry on into another universe . |
| 23 | How can a government carry on in such circumstances ? |
| 24 | ‘ Do they always carry on in this fashion ? ’ |
| 25 | And erm that would carry on until such times as when the foreman or whoever would deem them fit to be a squad that could carry out er a heavier job if you want put it that way , where they would progress on to heavier plates etcetera , and do watertight work . |
| 26 | First Response have a freephone help-line , manned by trained advisors , which you can ring on for more specialist , individual advice on using both tests . |
| 27 | Lee will rap on about this feeling of unison — he calls it the pulse — a mystical experience that arrives when the La 's all hit that special groove at the exact time . |
| 28 | From Table 6.4 , 99.86 per cent of records will be stored in their home cylinder and only 0.14 per cent will overflow on to another cylinder . |
| 29 | They arrive on stage in strict order of precedence , the noblest usually arriving last so that the lesser characters can look on in suitable admiration , whilst the servants ( the corps de ballet ) keep their distance . |
| 30 | When Autocover was originally negotiated the objective was to establish a scheme to cover the widest spectrum of the membership possible but we had to accept that all Insurance Companies would insist on excluding certain categories . |