Example sentences of "on without a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Sold him on without a vet 's certificate , eh ? ’ the Archdeacon snuffled through his nose .
2 ‘ He says he wo n't go on without a warm-up act first . ’
3 The same realization came to the King , pushed towards his precipice by Hardinge harshly telling him that he could not go on without a decision .
4 The rest of us intend staying right where we are — and Meredith Putt will find he 'll not move us on without a fight . ’
5 Net trading surpluses , from which funds were allocated , evaporated ; for most of 1921 and 1922 the LCS Political Committee was forced to carry on without a grant .
6 Quinn 's voice went on without a pause .
7 He half walked , half ran on without a word .
8 But Mr Enfield only nodded his head very seriously and walked on without a word .
9 It was burning , fraying at the edges , riddled with violent cancers of nationalism , spite and greed that could not go on without a climax for much longer .
10 ‘ How 's she getting on without a farm manager ? ’ the old maltster asked the younger men .
11 And I believed that this world of darkness and changing images went on without a break , as unceasingly as the other less real one outside , wherever outside was , and by some unlikely philanthropic gesture of the city corporation was allowed to co-exist and be connected by the little dark doors with dark portholes .
12 Addison has encapsulated the result by observing accurately that ‘ for a few critical years after 1945 , the home front ran on without a war to sustain it , and Britain was reconstructed in the image of the war effort ’ .
13 At last somebody who 's on without a face as long as a fiddle .
14 The lights were obviously controlled from some master switch for they went on without a sound .
15 The consequences of a low initial limit was that a solicitor would either have to stop work at an early stage and wait for an extension to be authorised , which ‘ is time-consuming , causes delay and raises difficulties with clients , ’ or work on without an extension .
16 The visitor can pass on without an inkling of these rare events , and in walking through the church pass over the Teutonic bones of those ancients .
17 So he and his rider galloped up a long hill and then down a longer hill and then up another hill and so on without a break for eight exhausting miles , and the more his rider puffed and gasped for breath , the more he enjoyed himself and the faster he went !
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