Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 31 | But he stopped , adjusted himself so that his cock lay comfortably upright against his stomach , and made himself walk on ; he knew his spirit grew stronger on retention , that he sapped his vital energies when he jerked off . |
| 32 | The man at Capital told me to hold on , and I waited for a very long time . |
| 33 | She told me to hang on a bit , and then I was talking to this David Kendrew bloke — the one on the programme — the one Mum 's always on about . |
| 34 | All you told me go on ah only this one 's |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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' ) . |
| 37 | I gave him the money and they told me to walk on and not look back because they would be following me . |
| 38 | ‘ Guy told me to stay on , ’ Tara said politely , taking the empty plate and cup from under her nose . |
| 39 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 40 | Levi told himself to get on with it . |
| 41 | I told you to hang on . |
| 42 | Leonora paused for a moment , then steeled herself to go on . |
| 43 | Tebbit also advised her to carry on . |
| 44 | Some of his supporters on the Hill told him to press on further with deficit reduction while he had a fair wind . |
| 45 | She told him to go on ahead , that she did n't want a ride . |
| 46 | Norm then told him to carry on just playing for as long as he could . |
| 47 | He is now at Krasnoyarsk , near Moscow , because officials in the capital told him to move on . |
| 48 | ‘ Well , he did begin to go on about it being unusual for him to be that side of the bar , but I told him to get on with it . ’ |
| 49 | Hospital staff advised him to drive on , but an hour later he turned back when more children and four teachers from Northgate High School , Dereham , Norfolk , fell ill . |
| 50 | Allen told her to ramble on about astrology , a subject Lysette knew nothing about . |
| 51 | So I started to write a variation on the first bar and told her to go on in the same way and to keep to the idea . |
| 52 | ‘ I did my teacher 's bit and told her to stay on until she got her leaving certificate . |
| 53 | When the cloud lifted they moved on . |
| 54 | Whatever they ate they kept on getting ill , because Rabscuttle was hiding in the store-rooms and spoiling the food as fast as it was brought in . |
| 55 | Kersey looked at Wycliffe , expecting some question or comment and when none came he went on : ‘ So where did he spend his time after lunch each Sunday ? ’ |
| 56 | I had the feeling they were " not quite right " , steeled myself to go on , careful not to annoy them . |
| 57 | Yesterday 's report says : ‘ The attractions of granting a licence , as a shield against accusations that the Department had — with the knowledge that the partnership was unlicensed — allowed them to carry on taking investors ’ money , were allowed to cloud the thinking within the Department . ’ |
| 58 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 59 | ‘ One of the very great and rare educators , he knew the art department had to be in the centre of the school , and not way down in some field : he encouraged me to get on with it . ’ |
| 60 | As he nodded she went on , ‘ I 'd had a bit of a knock in — in a relationship with a man in London , and I was very miserable over Elise 's death . |