Example sentences of "[verb] on and [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was good quality stuff , good to work on and I gradually worked my way up to being one of the house engineers and it took off from there . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I did pick up a lot of younger listeners with the early evening shows and it 's harder for them to tune in now , which I regret , but , without wanting to sound melodramatic , I would have done myself a mischief if I 'd carried on and I already feel better . ’ |
| 4 | are going on and I just did n't feel that we could erm support one . |
| 5 | I wondered what the hell was going on and I suddenly felt absolutely terrified . |
| 6 | He was in this office a fortnight ago saying that it was about time as his father was getting on and one never knew , et cetera et cetera … |
| 7 | Well I was a bleeding age but I had n't got a job and erm I decided to keep on and we actually used a lot of our August summer holidays to help move the stuff from to School . |
| 8 | Er well that was about the biggest , that that we worked on and we maybe had er some things for churches . |
| 9 | You do n't know what 's gone on and what still goes on between G.P. and me , she seemed to say . |
| 10 | ‘ And there 's me rambling on and you not knowing who the devil I am , nor me you … ’ |
| 11 | But as time dragged on and I obviously got worse , I suppose my friends decided to take action . |
| 12 | By this time people were organising treks out of Burma and the chaplain 's wife begged me to take you three out by a plane leaving Shwebo next day , but you were all too sick , and so we stayed on and I hastily sewed boiler suits against mosquitoes if and when we could trek out . |