Example sentences of "could [vb infin] on [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Maybe this idea could catch on for older properties ? |
| 3 | But the three-minute song is just a left-over from when that was all you could fit on to one side of a 78 record . |
| 4 | Thus they could move on to running ‘ Quality as a Business ’ , and more recently ‘ Post Zero Defects ’ . |
| 5 | All of this involved taking both parents ’ sex cells with their half-complement of DNA signals in the chromosomes , and bringing them together so that the cells could clamp on to each other and start dividing and growing . |
| 6 | Emboldened by his success , the being could go on to parallel transport the vector a along the closed path NABN in Fig. 3.8 . |
| 7 | Out of seventy children in the village school only sixteen could go on to further education after the age of ten or eleven . |
| 8 | The troubles are going on for over 20 years and the NI Office is doing very little about it , so it could go on for another 20 years . |
| 9 | I could go on for some time sir , but I will now proceed to the technical planning matters . |
| 10 | I could go on at great length on all these topics ; it would be very pleasant for me to say what I think and relieve Monsieur Geoffrey Braithwaite 's feelings by means of such utterances . |
| 11 | So I could go on at great length , colleagues , to tell you that he 's on this committee and that committee well er and that would take me a good half hour because he 's , he 's on , he 's involved in everything in everything in the Party in the union erm , and his commitment is absolutely second to none . |
| 12 | Er I could go on at great length about it if you wish me to but I 'm sure you do n't . |
| 13 | Masklin knew that they could go on like this for hours . |
| 14 | No doubt we could go on like this |
| 15 | Wellingtons and shorts , and we used to pour all this molasses and then tread it in , and we 'd go on treading it in until the next load came in , see , we could go on like this all day . |
| 16 | Wyllie came under closer scrutiny by the NZRFU for a variety of reasons — his unwillingness to have John Hart as an influential coaching partner , his inability to keep to selection announcement timetables and then his rather desperate efforts to have Mike Brewer , the one on-field forward whom Wyllie could rely on for solid advice , put into the team even while suffering a painful foot injury . |
| 17 | He is still optimistic that Richey 's conviction will be overturned , but the case could drag on for another six years or more . |
| 18 | If you wanted to shorten the circuit you could press on to Black Sail Hut . |
| 19 | ‘ Then you could get on with real issues such as a transport policy instead of a scheme to privatise it . |
| 20 | which I have n't yet got on to cos I wanted to hear most , at least most of the arguments on this aspect of the case , although it 's got very in effect very little to do with the other , other , but it does n't see round , er I could get on with that to a degree , er , so I do n't mind too much , but I think Friday is , is asking to much from Mr |
| 21 | ‘ I never could get on with those people ; they appear entirely obsessed with sex . |
| 22 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 23 | he could dig on to that . |