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 .
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