Example sentences of "i [vb base] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 These issues I touch on in the latter part of the chapter .
2 With my burdens lying against the brickwork of the bridge , I walk on along the same narrow path that now begins to climb the side of a rather bald looking hill .
3 I suppose I was on my way to call for Millie , but I walk on past the house instead , obscurely ashamed to have caught her father unawares .
4 But as I read on about the growing disharmony between Mrs. Proudie and Mr. Slope , Trollope rose in my estimation and count him among my favourite authors .
5 As I hang on to the arm-rest with white knuckles , it is clear to me that Brundle has decided not to attempt the corners but to go straight on to the escape road : the turn is impossible now ; it 's just a joke ; he 's trying to scare the shit out of me .
6 If I hang on to the key ?
7 If she does that , I get on with the jigsaw .
8 Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck .
9 The delicacy of the situation , with their parents and often their grandparents there and everything ( as in a thwarted erotic dream ) , would hardly explain the lack of visual stimulation ; and I get on like a house on fire with the girls in the officers ' bordello .
10 Selina and I get on like a house on fire .
11 When I fight I go on to the end , as I did in 1926 . ’
12 I burst on to the pass from Jack Clarke , had a wee look and saw I was in the clear .
13 As I burst on to the empty platform , the train starts to pull away .
14 Before I move on to a fuller description of helicopter radios , let's summarise the above :
15 In the next chapter , I move on to a more interesting , more telling and more fruitful critique of inductivism .
16 If things go badly , I move on to the next thing and do n't beat myself up
17 In section 3.4 , I move on to an outline of the methods of the Belfast research .
18 And although I move on in the final chapter to consider some of the policy implications of the analysis , the main aim will be to clarify rather than prescribe .
19 Cos that 's what I live on during the day is never-ending supplies of tea and coffee .
20 I carry on with the horses , working the horses and then report to him by phone , go in the , in the office and re he 's there at the other end , knows what time I 'm gon na ring him up .
21 I carry on up the street , looking in the windows .
22 back home , so I carry on down the road .
23 And I come on to the mi middle
24 ( They get up — To GUIL ) I come on in a minute .
25 Of course , I 'll never find an answer , because the one I love most is always the one I gaze on from the other .
26 So I work on down the lambing quite a few times .
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