Example sentences of "i [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted me to drive on and I was in no position to argue . |
| 2 | His only answer was a wave of the arm , signalling me to drive on . |
| 3 | My mam moved away but the landlord would n't let me stay on because I was on social security . |
| 4 | Even when he was n't there he 'd let me stay on . |
| 5 | You see , I know my father would have wished me to carry on just now . ’ |
| 6 | He expects me to carry on up at the manor as though it 's just another working day. ? |
| 7 | And I finally went back to my G P on the seventh day which was a Saturday in the morning , and he told me to carry on taking the drug . |
| 8 | ‘ You ca n't possibly expect me to carry on this sort of charade — not for that length of time ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ You just do n't want me to carry on my business , do you ? ’ she hit back , angered at his refusal and refusing to see the rest as a compliment . |
| 10 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 11 | Now I do n't wan na , want me to prattle on much more tonight , if it 's not worth speaking about , I think it 's probably about enough |
| 12 | ‘ D' you want me to go on ? ’ |
| 13 | My father wanted me to go on to a Public School and I received special lessons in Latin Verse and in Greek .. |
| 14 | Aware that he had broken in , Surkov urged me to go on improvising . |
| 15 | After a while I sat down in a secret place by the Cherwell and fell to musing about how I had once myself aspired to Oxford , how one of my lecturers at Edinburgh had urged me to go on to read for a B.Litt. there , but of course the war had put an end to any such ambitions . |
| 16 | He waited for me to go on , looking puzzled . |
| 17 | Do you want me to go on ? |
| 18 | Sceptical doubts about objectivity make good sense within a practice ; there are objectively correct answers to questions how to go on , and if challenged in a particular case , we can support our choice by appeal to the rule ( 'Why did you write 20,002 ? ’ 'Because you told me to go on adding 2' ) . |
| 19 | ‘ There was no reason for me to go on living . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you want me to go on ? ’ |
| 21 | She appeared to wait for me to go on . |
| 22 | It 's something that will help me to go on . |
| 23 | Patience , determination , a good sense of humour … want me to go on ? ’ |
| 24 | half G T half G T squared plus some constant times time normally your the the G will be a negative half A T squared but someone had said come up with that equation , and you 've said well what are you going to give me to go on well the acceleration 's constant . |
| 25 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 26 | ‘ Here 's me goin' on about my life , and you have n't told me about yours . |
| 27 | ‘ When I 'm on stage it 's just me rattling on . |
| 28 | No point in me hanging on to the stuff , cos the baby 's grown out of it , that 's it , is n't it ? |
| 29 | Clara B seems to live in fear of me appearing on there one evening . |
| 30 | But there was a wealth of material for me to work on . ’ |