Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Additionally , many single people admit that they had not realised before how much they relied on their job for companionship and sometimes , even for part of their week-end social life . |
| 2 | The foundations of interviewing lie in the mundane observation that individuals can report on what they feel , are , have , tell others about their lives , disclose what their hopes and fears are , offer their opinions , state what they believe in , say what they did last week , how much they spend on food , who they see regularly , and so on ; in short , they can impart masses of information about themselves . |
| 3 | So they decided on 31st December . |
| 4 | So they sat on a blanket and clung to each other , tears streaming down their cheeks . |
| 5 | So they sat on the engine housing and Wycliffe felt sufficiently relaxed to light his pipe . |
| 6 | So they practise on the ground . |
| 7 | So they worked on er what were called circking machines . |
| 8 | Together they embark on a perilous ascent . |
| 9 | Brando brought Stanley Kubrick into the project as the film 's director and together they worked on the script for several months . |
| 10 | Together they descend on the area with a daunting array of technology and meticulously start to gather samples of hair , sperm , skin and saliva by torchlight from a chosen patch of grass . |
| 11 | Together they sat on one of the deep and wide settees in the room , and , though there was room enough to spare should they wish to spread out , Leith opted to sit up close . |
| 12 | And together they swept on remorseless , to the final crest . |
| 13 | Swiftly they closed on the running prey up ahead , the scent growing stronger in their nostrils , heightening the bloodlust of the chase . |
| 14 | Of course they 're all putting their hands up by me see , and Da , I thought David would clock , and he never said a word , I thought he ai n't sussed it , anyway they went on this night out and the girls kept saying , Debbie saying oh Lynn just come , I said I ai n't got no intentions of coming , I said David 's going amongst all the others I 'm not going , so Debbie said why , I said why because David is nothing but a wanker , a lot , along , a lot of the others , she said , she nearly fell off the chair , gordon bennett she said I never thought you , I never realised you felt like that , I said Debbie if you knew half of what I thought you would fall off that chair |
| 15 | Bloodlessly they rested on white slabs where mince and chops had once reposed . |
| 16 | In the book there are illustrations of traffic calming scenes in which walkers stroll among the cars and bikes , whilst elsewhere they remain on pavements , protected by kerbs . |
| 17 | Yet still they persist on the abolition of the Wages Councils . |
| 18 | Her eyelids flipped open , and the world was hard-edged , dull and ugly , and so big , so big it squashed the tiny meanings out of sight but still they hovered on the borders of her mental vision and she would have dreamt her way back into that fae¨rie ether but a harsh voice slurred a saw of sound at her . |
| 19 | Yesterday they played on it with delirious joy . |
| 20 | The result was that yesterday they turned on us for information as to the number of men to be dropped , the weight of stores and the mileage and so on , all of which was essential for them to know if they were to fit out the aircraft properly . |
| 21 | Some people prefer not to talk or to think about their tinnitus as they find that the more they concentrate on it the worse it becomes . |
| 22 | Indeed , the more they reflected on it , the better it appeared , and they quickly passed from affecting forgetfulness to unaffected obduracy . |
| 23 | Although she put them firmly into the category of ‘ workers ’ , rather than ‘ idlers ’ , and therefore to be praised , they were not quite on a par with the Welsh factory workers , or designers ; nonetheless they stood on a higher plane than accountants , clerks or corporate planners . |
| 24 | you might 've had some timetables like they have on the train |
| 25 | Have you got erm , you know you have the screen , and the monitor screen , have you got s , you know like they have on T V , the the writing that comes on , sort of , like a telephone number comes on the bottom of it , is it , have you got that , special things like that . |
| 26 | I mean , if we have a petition like they do on the counter in Welfare Rights in the Town Hall , I do n't think there be any opposition to that and the Libraries for the setting up of a P D S A branch , you know , I do n't see why , why we should n't give it a try . |
| 27 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 28 | The only glimmer of light she could see at the moment seemed to come from the cheerful faces of the Rafferty children whenever they arrived on the Four Winds doorstep . |
| 29 | These equations , however , contain the derivatives of U , and hence they depend on the arbitrary functions f(u) and g(v) that are specified by the incoming waves . |
| 30 | Two beers later they shake on the deal and stagger out of the Captain 's Cabin . |