Example sentences of "could [vb infin] on [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the Elector Carl Theodor had taken up residence in Munich , and had invited the members of his court to join him there ( though they could stay on at Mannheim and retain their salaries if they wished ) . |
| 2 | With his connections , there was still a good chance Balestre could hang on to power . |
| 3 | The nest was built whilst the truck was in use , so the bird must have been patiently waiting for it to return after each journey so that it could carry on with nest building . |
| 4 | or you could carry on along California Road |
| 5 | Fix it up for me to fly from there if it suits or I could carry on by train . ’ |
| 6 | This was pleasant for the small landowners , who could move on to Virginia and resume tobacco growing there , but less prosperous white men in the West Indies lost almost all hope of working up the scale to become modest farmers on their own land . |
| 7 | Thanks , that 's Paper G. If we could move on to Paper H. Trade Union Recognition . |
| 8 | For Camus the sky was a source of sustenance that he could draw on at will ; for me it is a thwarted promise , yearned for and glimpsed against the odds . |
| 9 | I could dribble on at length about but I wo n't cos this is a Leeds list after all , and also Tim might get narky : - ] |
| 10 | We 're sort of outside of that area so I do n't know what we do about our video equipment , but I think it would be beneficial if there were somebody we could call on to sort out problems for us , who actually understood all the stuff . |
| 11 | erm towards the end of the century it was just about possible for middle class girls , or a few middle class girls to get a reasonable academic education at one of the G P D S schools — we 've got one in Hove , you know the girls ' public day school trust foundations — but only very few went there and got what would be equivalent now to a kind of secondary education and a very , very , very , very tiny minority of those girls could go on to university if they faced an enormous amount of opposition when they got there and also to get there in the first place , but for most girls there was only a basic elementary education , which increasingly stressed the sort of domestic side of a girl 's vocation . |
| 12 | The effect would be that after a complainant gave evidence which the judge thought credible , if the prosecution at that point decided on due reflection to discontinue , the judge could go on to call all the remaining prosecution witnesses himself . |
| 13 | With this as a starting point , you could go on to experiment with even more additional lights . |
| 14 | If we could state positively , and with hope of agreement , what the point of education is , then we could go on to debate how it should be provided , how much public money should be spent on provision , and how much variety should be permitted , within the general legal framework . |
| 15 | Yeah because erm , poor thingy , the girl I went to school with she went on to Spring Hill when she was fifteen , see you could go on to grammar school when you were fifteen then as well as going at eleven |
| 16 | One could go on with provisos of this kind , or with hints as to procedure in this or that case , for pages . |
| 17 | And this party looked as if it could go on for hours yet ! |
| 18 | This could go on for hours . |
| 19 | Let's hope the ms strikes lucky this time , otherwise this could go on for generations . |
| 20 | I could go on for pages . |
| 21 | I could go on for minutes on end . |
| 22 | ‘ Oh , well then , that trip could go on for years . |
| 23 | ‘ But this could go on for years . ’ |
| 24 | Every week she gets worse and yet it could go on for years . |
| 25 | It could go on for years possibly . |
| 26 | Up to now , the Government , rather than the UN , has met the cost of the 3,000-strong British contingent and the UN presence could go on for years , he said . |
| 27 | If the sky remained clear , I could go on by moonlight . |
| 28 | This could go on till morning , it was ridiculous . |
| 29 | And court cases could drag on for years . |
| 30 | ‘ It could drag on for months , ’ I protested , ‘ years even . ’ |