Example sentences of "[pron] would [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll give you a hand until the rush dies down and then I thought I 'd get on with the account orders for tomorrow , ’ she said casually , but the girl gave her a strange look , and Folly had a nasty feeling that her voice was n't as fully under control as she had thought . |
| 2 | In the street outside the hotel , a crowd cheered and cheered ; periodically someone would go on to the balcony and throw roses down to the assembled admirers . |
| 3 | She said she 'd get on with the cooking better if I came down here on my own . |
| 4 | But now he came to consider it , she 'd had an air of knowing more than she 'd let on throughout the proceedings . |
| 5 | Perhaps you 'd carry on with the Leicester ladies , and Gladys Brown . ’ |
| 6 | You 'd recognize this if you are a driver and especially a driver who maybe has the opportunity of travelling long distance , now years ago when I was younger and perhaps some of you in the audience when you were younger , you could go from here to the South of England with no trouble , without a break and you 'd head on down the motorway and you , you 'd be alert and alive and er ready to meet up with all sorts of emergencies and you 'd drive quite well all the way down , non stop down the South of England , but if you 're like me now , when I get to Stafford on the motorway you 're beginning to feel as if you 've had enough and it 's difficult to try and keep your concentration as you used to years ago , and that 's how it can be in the truth sometimes , when we 've been with it a long time that , we grow older not only physically , but spiritually too we become very experienced in the truth and we become very sort of fat spiritually , we can live off of that fat ca n't we ? |
| 7 | Because you 'd sort of , they , they 'd go up and then if , if you went any farther you 'd go on to the doctors ' lectures you see . |
| 8 | For a second it looked as though she would go on with the game , but then she stopped smiling and her eyes slid away from his . |
| 9 | Tomorrow she would motor on through the German and the Czechoslovakian borders to her destination in Mariánské Láznë . |
| 10 | She had to get to a chair otherwise she would collapse on to the floor . |
| 11 | Then of course the there were area combat missions , area missions but these had nothing to do er with the work training I think that and I did and in developing of our crews so that we were able to survive and of course er our mission that we thought that would probably be the same as was on the fourteenth when we went to Schweinfurt and we made it back and not only that but we got back to England , we 'd manage on about the third pass to get in to this one field and there was another plane trying to get in and they went up and bailed out and after we were eating our supper here they brought the men in the fields er where they , on the bombers ' field where they had landed the never got in so they went up and set the plane on automatic pilot and bailed out because they could n't land the plane but we managed to take them out and I think there was the extra good flying training and I did together that made us able to survive the savage attacks that we had , he had it on the Munster mission , I had it on the Schweinfurt mission . |
| 12 | Mother used to come too , although she was chapel , and then we would go on to the Methodist service in the evening . |
| 13 | whether they would go on with the scheme or with a part of it , having the public offices in a well-devised and properly-arranged manner , all connected with each other , instead of being , as now , disconnected . |
| 14 | Then , usually , he set more puffball to smoke in underneath , to kill off all the bees , and they would move on to the next hive . |
| 15 | If he was n't careful they would get on to the subject of the motorway . |
| 16 | She wondered if he 'd stay on in the motel business , or move out . |
| 17 | At halftime , he 'd come on to the pitch and give the whole team extra-strong mints , rearrange the tactics , change our positions , tell us we were playing downhill in the second half , tell us that a six-goal deficit was nothing . |
| 18 | Mrs Blakey , only a little less sceptical than her husband of this line of talk , nevertheless recalled how Timothy Gedge had affected her when he 'd come on to the telephone with a woman 's voice , and her bewilderment when the silence had first begun in the house . |
| 19 | He would stay on through the night although the local doctor had said it was probably useless . |
| 20 | He had gained five distinctions in his Matriculation examinations and it had been decided that he would stay on at the College until he was eighteen to take Higher School Certificate . |
| 21 | He said he would stay on until the vacation . |
| 22 | He would cling on to the craft and try to steer it . |
| 23 | It was nearly a mile of steep climbing , he knew , before he would emerge on to the open heathland where The Drover 's Arms stood . |
| 24 | Asked if he would hang on to the tot , he replied : ‘ No way — no , no . ’ |