Example sentences of "he [vb -s] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 2 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 3 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 4 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 5 | Where we might have expected him to grant her the respect of verse , he goes on in the same business-like prose : ‘ How now , Kate ? |
| 6 | Like Billy were he lives , he lives on by the courts , you know by the Law Centre ? |
| 7 | Many legends are told of Barbarossa ; it is said that he is not dead , that no true Emperor has ruled since his reign , and that he lives on until the Day of Judgement . |
| 8 | With true teen anger he latches on to the witty cynicism of the two Lenny 's , Cohen and Bruce , but fires them up with youthful vitriol . |
| 9 | After the first player has had his turn , he hands on to the second player . |
| 10 | He hangs on to the hope that he will work with Almodóvar again , but Hollywood and a coterie of internationally-acclaimed directors are now pounding on the door . |
| 11 | He stays on into the dawn — how quiet |
| 12 | When he gets on to the old antibiotics he |
| 13 | Halvard — Perhaps you could let us know how he gets on in the tour games . |
| 14 | The voice he puts on for the customers , you would think he was in daily contact with the Lord Mayor or the Duke . |
| 15 | This week he 's at Queens Club with Sky for the Stella Artois tournament , then he moves on to the Manchester Open on June 14 . |
| 16 | Erm then he moves on to the middle peasants erm they 're similar , I mean once again they , they 've got enough to eat , they are , they are n't under as much stress , I mean th th they can su survive and so the idea of them risking all to support a revolution would be very er you know very risky at the time at the beginning er the opening period erm so once again th th I 'd say their conclusion is afraid not , you know , I wo n't join a peasant association , i it wo n't last . |
| 17 | He steps on to the bathroom scales . |
| 18 | The two sets of metaphors have persisted side by side , not only in the West since the ancient Greeks , but in other civilizations as well ( Chinese ming ‘ bright ’ is the ordinary word for the enlightenment of the sage , which is often compared to a mirror reflecting things exactly as they are , while te ‘ get ’ is used of insight ; ‘ I 've got it ! ’ says the disciple to his master as he catches on to the Tao ) . |