Example sentences of "i [vb mod] [vb infin] on [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Have you any message I may pass on to him ? ’ |
2 | ‘ I must go on with the post , but I 'll send somebody to help you as soon as I can . |
3 | Well , you roused my interest of course ; but also I panicked , felt I must follow on from you . |
4 | Well , I must get on with it . |
5 | I must get on with my work . ’ |
6 | ‘ I must get on with Sheikh 's essay , ’ said Robert — ‘ it 's twenty pages long ! ’ |
7 | His widow , Margaret , said : ‘ Alfred told me that I should carry on with the case if he died , and that is exactly what I will do . ’ |
8 | I could not see , then , how I might press on with this bantering ; in fact , I decided it best to call a halt to the matter and , pretending to remember something I had urgently to attend to , excused myself , leaving my employer looking rather bemused . |
9 | That 's why I was thinking I might hang on to the Volvo for another two years until you 've got your own car and then I can buy what I really want . |
10 | I have my first sittings at 8.30 am , and then I have my meetings ; I dictate in the afternoon to my secretary , and I might work on till midnight . |
11 | I 'll hold on to mine . |
12 | I 'll hold on to you dear . |
13 | I 'll hold on to this . |
14 | ‘ You keep the paper , I 'll haud on to the cigars . ’ |
15 | I will put that on the side and just with the rest as you 're going Now I 'll move on to the financial statements . |
16 | ‘ This marriage — aye , I 'll go on with it . |
17 | ‘ I 'll go on with it here . |
18 | ‘ You away in and I 'll go on to the hotel by myself . |
19 | ‘ Hopefully there 'll be a lot more messages from her because I think I 'll go on to be at least 120 . ’ |
20 | Ellen , please ask a maid to find some dry clothes for me , and then I 'll go on to the village . |
21 | And I 'll go on to talk about how that is significant in the context of , of . |
22 | I 'll go on to talk about that . |
23 | But I think the analogy begins to break down and I 'll go on to erm straight forward thinking in Richmondshire erm where we would n't recognize an elephant if we saw one . |
24 | I 'll carry on for as long as it takes . |
25 | I 've become very fond of Ellis and I 'm prepared on occasion to be tempted into his latest hare-brained scheme , but I 'm buggered if I 'll carry on like Richard Hannay and his chums in a John Buchan novel . |
26 | ‘ In fact , I do n't know how I 'll get on without you . ’ |
27 | ‘ I 'll get on to it tomorrow morning from the Office . |
28 | ‘ I 'll get on to the emergency services immediately . |
29 | ‘ OK , I 'll get on to it straight away , see what I can do . ’ |
30 | ‘ I 'll get on to it right away . |