Example sentences of "on [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What else if I , I have to go and relieve er if I want er to only work down the cabin and it come to meal times cos we carried on dredging from six in the morning we do al all the winters round cos they eat on the dredger they used to eat three winches four winches on the dredger cos they 'd heave the dredger across the river and back again , wo when they come to meal times I used to have to go on and relieve the man what was driving that winch and I used t cos the er er chins coming round the barrel of the winch they used to override and I used to have a handle to knock them clear . |
| 2 | On the plus side , would n't it be nice if the clients were helped to look ahead and did n't go on lurching from legal hitch to last-minute legal hitch ? |
| 3 | A classical logician , like Aristotle or the man in the street , would go on to deduce from this that unc That , however , is wrong . |
| 4 | Of course , it is quite another matter to go on to argue from this very limited piece of evidence that loss of the fricative in /xt/ was embedded in the English language as a whole as a completed sound-change at this early date . |
| 5 | And there are many men and women who , having ‘ failed ’ at a first marriage , have gone on to learn from that failure and to have extremely happy second marriages . |