Example sentences of "we [verb] [to-vb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end , I refused Toby 's offer of a drink , and we agreed to sleep on the problem and talk again sometime during the following day . |
| 2 | We bring to bear on the various officers and employees and shareholders and others associated with the corporation our ordinary standards of personal responsibility . |
| 3 | Therefore , before embarking on any research project we must make clear that we intend to act on the results . |
| 4 | We must move on , because we 've got to have a commercial break , and then we want to check on the traffic . |
| 5 | By March 1989 Paddy Hopkins of MEG was arguing against the type of short-term development involved in mining and in favour of development based on indigenous , renewable natural resources , especially on the tourist and leisure industries : ‘ We want to concentrate on the development of tourism to provide jobs , not the short-term benefit — perhaps five years — which mining would bring ’ . |
| 6 | We both had large appetites and although we tried to get on the same table at mealtimes so that we could monopolise the food , we were permanently hungry . |
| 7 | We have launched Omega products into Sweden where we hope to build on the tremendous success we have had in Norway . |
| 8 | ‘ But we seemed to concentrate on the economic effects of the Industrial Revolution , and stuff like that . |
| 9 | What have we got to get on the way home ? |
| 10 | With a little shiver , she muttered awkwardly , ‘ Well , go on , then , or are we going to stand on the ladder all day ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ How are we going to get on the Shuttle ? ’ he said . |
| 12 | Mr Gordon Brown , shadow trade secretary , asked : ‘ Why have we had to rely on the Ombudsman to confirm the mismanagement , the maladministration and incompetence that was widely known more than a year ago ? ’ |
| 13 | We like to concentrate on the pop stuff in a few tracks and indulge in the more experimental stuff with the rest . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps this debate wo n't be as lively and er as controversial as the one that er we arranged to have on the question of insider dealing but it is an important matter because auditing as I said , is not just as assistance to companies but it is a reassurance to the general public and the public at the moment are in need of grave reassurance that the insur that the er the financial services industry as well as industry generally , is being properly looked after and for these reasons er although we support er the orders before er the house tonight , we have no hesitation at all in ensuring that they are debated properly than not something that should simply go through on the nod . |
| 15 | So we began to ponder on the circumstances which might have made it necessary for such a tiny place to be defended . |
| 16 | And what sort of things might we have to encounter on the road ? ’ |
| 17 | So , at the very last minute we decided to perform on the lawn outside the main building . |
| 18 | Denise Wong , the artistic director of the company and director of the piece says , ‘ We wanted to look at mothers , but it is such a vast topic that we decided to concentrate on the mother and daughter relationship , and the concept of unconditional love . |
| 19 | We decided to focus on the women with endometriosis as the principal diagnosis since this group would be least influenced by selection bias . |
| 20 | The path seemed to be washed away in places , so better safe than sorry , we decided to stay on the upper path . |
| 21 | A police spokesman said : ‘ We aim to build on the success of last year . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ But there is great potential and we aim to build on the skills of the people . ’ |
| 23 | What are we going to do about the bad and how do we propose to build on the good . |
| 24 | If we wish to reflect on the nature of the body we must in succession examine the body first as being-for-itself and then as being-for-others . |
| 25 | So we continued to meet on the sly . |
| 26 | We had to go on the Green Line bus . ’ |
| 27 | Now he might remember I think the court come just before the after Nicola , and the car was going to because I know we had to go on the train to Liverpool and er , I 'd got ta give evidence as well , they made such a palaver ! |
| 28 | He grumbled incessantly about the ‘ disgusting ’ provincial life we had to lead on the island . |
| 29 | Erm then we had to call on the way back in Deeside er in Mold and there was a miner 's support group there . |
| 30 | From there we went in a funny little train with open trucks which fascinated Tim , until we got to a railway junction where we had to wait on the station for some hours for another train to take us to Calcutta . |