Example sentences of "we [to-vb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sir , what are we to live on ? |
| 2 | Ought we to rush on before doing more about the ring ? |
| 3 | He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on . |
| 4 | Oh we 've actually found a free seat for us to sit on . |
| 5 | ‘ The site enables us to carry on our day to day business without interfering with the local community . |
| 6 | ‘ The only important thing ’ , he continued , ‘ is for us to go on writing our poems . |
| 7 | But there 's really no need for us to go on howling , is there ? |
| 8 | However he added : ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will , ’ he added . |
| 10 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 11 | Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty . |
| 12 | We have negotiated a special deal with one of the world 's leading car hire organisations , that enables us to pass on to you the corporate rates and preferential service for car hire that they usually offer only to large companies . |
| 13 | No , it comes to us to pass on to you and we passed it to you |
| 14 | The two voices I want us to concentrate on are ‘ the laughing voice ’ and ‘ the Gothic voice ’ . |
| 15 | The forest floor is safe at last for us to walk on ! |
| 16 | Before , we were just listening to everybody else telling us to keep on playing and carry on doing this and that , but that was really just because they were afraid we were going to be a flash in the pan . |
| 17 | ‘ This programme will help us to keep on improving the quality of our service , ’ explained Lockett . |
| 18 | ‘ Fortunately for us they did n't and now , after this win , hopefully it will be a platform for us to build on . ’ |
| 19 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 20 | It was far too small for the three of us to live on . |
| 21 | " It sounds trite , but I have enough love for both of us to live on . " |
| 22 | There was a cement block two feet high for us to lie on , the toilet a hole without water , two worn blankets ( later we got a third one ) and one pair of trousers and one shirt per year . |
| 23 | I think it will help us to hold on to what I am going to say if we keep in mind two pictures : a hallway of a house , and a telephone . |
| 24 | Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will . |
| 25 | They 'll give up and leave us to get on with some work I imagine . |
| 26 | ‘ But we have a son and we feel Penny would have expected us to get on with our lives . ’ |
| 27 | I think that what happened was that a lot of traditional union members , that is , the white , heterosexual male stewards who normally formed its backbone , for once took a back-seat , and allowed us to get on with it — to organize in our own way which we did . |
| 28 | It was time for us to get on with the climbing . |
| 29 | Meanwhile , obviously she wants us to get on with completing the next issue . ’ |
| 30 | I believe that the public want us to get on with abolishing the community charge and replacing it with the council tax . |