Example sentences of "we [verb] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now we got on to this the other day does anybody remember that ? |
| 2 | For a short time we got on without much difficulty , but we were soon obliged to have recourse to our hands and knees , and clamber thus from one crag to another . |
| 3 | I think that part of our business makes it more difficult because ah the purchase of Allied Carpets by Carpetland is the space of the market at a fairly speedy rate and I personally believe other retailers will have the policy to sub-let surface areas in the next few years so it 's something we got on with three years ago and very pleased we did it . |
| 4 | Can we hang on to these ? |
| 5 | We sailed on for another two weeks . |
| 6 | As we paddled on down this part of the river I became aware of a huge commotion behind me . |
| 7 | A familiar disjunction : while we hold on to personal musical favourites dating back over twenty-five years because we still enjoy listening to them , the music which brings on the fiercest nostalgia is often a terrible , loathsome noise with which we think we have nothing in common . |
| 8 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 9 | And so , for 500 dense pages , we hang on for grim death as Hughes ' locomotive intelligence hurtles down the track he has set himself . |
| 10 | At Bergheim — three houses and a gas station — we turned on to one of those narrow tracks that do n't even get a farm road numeral . |
| 11 | So how have we got on with that ? |
| 12 | If not can we move on to six which er in Mr 's shorthand is area likely to meet Greater York needs . |
| 13 | But well can we move on to two and I must confess erm I 'm not quite clear what is meant by this one . |
| 14 | We walked on above Long Bank Wood and Spring Bank where wild deer are said to roam and where Bill was made a fool of by several rabbits . |
| 15 | We drive on in subdued silence . |
| 16 | As I mentioned in the chapter on ‘ Teachers ’ , the Bible has got a lot of things to say about how we get on with other people . |
| 17 | See how we get on with this . |
| 18 | So , well before we get on to any issues to do with the structural poverty of the Third World , maintained by the wealth extracting efforts and arrangements of our Western world , we can surely see why quite a few people do not really believe in recovery through economic growth and consumption and we need to ask whether we ought to want it anyway , but people in the Tory Party and in the Labour Party in the City with a capital C and the trade unions with a Capital T and a U go on talking as if our goal must be jobs and recovery in the same old way , technologized , computerized and skillerlized of course with strong dashes of management insights and so on |
| 19 | I think I 'll reserve my other comments , sir , when we get on to some of the later points . |
| 20 | I think , I 'll come back to that a little bit when we get on to some consideration of these press releases . |
| 21 | Before we get on to this next item , would it be a suitable place to break for , time to break for coffee ? |
| 22 | We chatted on like that and life seemed pretty nice . |
| 23 | Well we kept on like that and er er people like that we were packing up wholesale so erm I 've lost myself a little bit now . |
| 24 | ‘ We do n't want to start crowing because we 're not up there yet , but if we keep on like this I believe this side can make a challenge . ’ |
| 25 | But the more we go on with this type of service , this soft praying and quiet singing , and not ringing the bell or catching the Spirit , the more we realize that we ai n't solving the problem . |
| 26 | Right , can we actually have a look now the last bit is sort of more the nitty gritty before we go on to this . |
| 27 | There are fragments of kouroi from Delos as early or nearly as Nikandre 's girl , but before we go on to these a few more general remarks are in place . |
| 28 | And number twenty easiest , not easier but easiest and the third task was the easiest of them all , easiest now they were all your new words , now we go on to some of the older words now , number twenty one , occupy occupy |
| 29 | Domenico Valentino , Florence 's relevant Soprintendente for such matters says , ‘ If we go on like this , we 'll end up with a huge mass of literature relating to Boboli , but lose the gardens themselves ’ . |
| 30 | In fact if we go on like this we 're almost bound to . |