Example sentences of "it [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uses for the foam or suggested ones , are for keeping bank vaults safe and for applying pesticides to crops without polluting the air , I do not see it catching on . |
| 2 | Somehow I ca n't see it catching on in the way Play-Doh did . |
| 3 | One of the region 's top ice hockey teams has been saved , along with the ice rink it plays on . |
| 4 | For among the effects is one that is new , and that nothing that I 've said so far could have suggested this very exuberance , as well as the things it plays on , can make us smile or laugh . |
| 5 | They will cut their claims to an amount which can roughly be covered by the bank 's remaining assets of $2.8 billion while allowing it to carry on operating . |
| 6 | And this government wants it to carry on that way . ’ |
| 7 | Not that I do n't wish it to carry on . |
| 8 | It is easier , for example , to conclude that someone is being abrupt if you only have what they say and how they say it to go on . |
| 9 | She wanted it to go on for ever and ever ! |
| 10 | If a bank was in such a position that it was to end , what is the necessity for it to go on ? |
| 11 | It was so wonderful and I wanted it to go on forever . |
| 12 | There is an imbalance , and I feel that I ca n't allow it to go on . |
| 13 | I ca n't prove which it is ( or even if they 're doing it together ) but I ca n't allow it to go on . |
| 14 | That the thump of my heart was challenging it to go on and not to be broken by a … |
| 15 | I would n't have wanted it to go on too long . |
| 16 | Then , just when Rachel was feeling she wanted it to go on forever , this exciting masquerade between the two of them where it seemed as if the rest of the world did n't exist , she found herself beside Danny who began stuttering and waving his arms , obviously trying to tell her something . |
| 17 | She wanted it to last too , to make love slowly and languorously , for it to go on forever . |
| 18 | We want it to go on forever . |
| 19 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 20 | It turns on to its side and as I cling on for dear life I hear a startled cry from Nathan . |
| 21 | It sleeps on , oblivious of everything but the source of life within it that is strengthening it daily . |
| 22 | And it got on from that you see . |
| 23 | His Dad kept it hanging on a nail in the shed and he 'd have noticed right away if it was missing . |
| 24 | ‘ At first I could not believe it , but when I saw it hanging on the wall of this house , I was flabbergasted , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The Western was in its dying throes , but Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969 kept it hanging on by a thread . |
| 26 | And note also that it clips on ; there 's no cable . |
| 27 | Once the action and reaction grievance-violence-remedy of grievance has been set up , it goes on of its own accord . |
| 28 | ‘ It is of thrilling interest as a story , but it is more than that ; it is a kind of poem , and it has the great virtue of improving as it goes on . |
| 29 | It goes on to state that the cell had no electricity and no floor covering , the prisoners were allowed few clothes and they received only two meals a day , one consisting of a single very small momo ( steamed bun ) and the other of a small cup of wormy vegetables . |
| 30 | It goes on : ‘ Too little thought was given to the question of whether a legitimising licence would have been beneficial to investors . |