Example sentences of "can [vb infin] on [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , can hang on to that for me ? |
| 2 | we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about . |
| 3 | It was a special feeling to score , and hopefully I can carry on like that . ’ |
| 4 | First Response have a freephone help-line , manned by trained advisors , which you can ring on for more specialist , individual advice on using both tests . |
| 5 | The key area in terms of waiting , I 've referred to later in the report , perhaps we can move on to that . |
| 6 | Erm I have four or five people I can take on for any one of those companies so nobody 's in competition with |
| 7 | I hope that as chairman of ICI the contribution that I can make is to be looked upon by people on all levels as someone whose experience they can call on at any time . |
| 8 | The Hybrid Bill procedure is also relatively speedy — 14 months from the first Channel Tunnel Bill to the final Act — when compared with major pubic inquiries which can drag on for several years . |
| 9 | Lord Owen rejects the idea that the Bosnian Serbs can hold on to all the territories they now occupy . |
| 10 | The extent to which an atmosphereless planet can hold on to such volatiles depends on the impact speed of the volatile-rich body and on the gravitational field of the planet . |
| 11 | Now , now , if I can hold on to these members depends on benefits being maintained , not decreased , that 's not an incentive . |
| 12 | This can go on for several hours on a number of occasions two hundred or more eggs have been counted . |
| 13 | ‘ I can go on for another three or four years yet because I 'm still as fit as a fiddle , ’ he said . |
| 14 | John looked at his watch , ‘ Come on Mary , we can go on for another ten minutes and I 'd like to find out what is around that bend . ’ |
| 15 | So use the opportunity , get a return , make them take a good look at you and then you know you 're alright and can go on for another couple of years and make them look at you again . |
| 16 | Playing hard to get is a game which can go on for some considerable time , especially if one has as ardent a suitor as the French . |
| 17 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
| 18 | Which answer will help us most to ensure that life can go on on this planet ? |
| 19 | ‘ Peter , ’ said Sarella when she 'd got over the shock of what he 'd just said , ‘ surely you do n't imagine we can go on with this charade any longer ? ’ |
| 20 | The woman , however , having attained one orgasm , can go on to another and even several during one coupling ; and may feel satisfied after one or unsatisfied without more . |
| 21 | This ascent up the levels of programming languages can go on without any natural limit : a language like LISP , when run , is normally translated through two or three levels before it becomes machine code . |
| 22 | One can go on in this knockabout vein for some time , because some of the illogicalities of the Velikovskian scientists are very funny indeed . |
| 23 | She can go on like that for hours if she is n't stopped ’ . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't think we can go on like this . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I do n't believe you can go on like this and get away with it , ’ was his core phrase , prepared with care because he believed that it was in the King 's idiom . |
| 26 | We 'll both get out of your lives and then you can get on with that idyllic existence you shared before we ever came to this island . |
| 27 | When they go home you can get on with some electronic angling with your detector . |
| 28 | ‘ Maybe then I can get on with some work . |
| 29 | ‘ If you have finished touring my sitting-room , perhaps we can get on with this . ’ |
| 30 | So that we can get on with this work . |