Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend is a charming relative newcomer to this place and we are delighted that she is here , but if she had been here as long as I have — getting on for 18 years now — she would have heard me banging on about exactly that point . |
| 2 | Accordingly it is interesting to speculate to what extent these attitudes have caused British businessmen to adopt short time-horizons in making decisions — with negative consequences for longer-term growth performance — because their main objective is to acquire sufficient wealth to enable them to move on to the better things in life . |
| 3 | Ah I do n't know whether you want me to chat on about that |
| 4 | ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that . |
| 5 | ‘ Want me to get on with it , then ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't make love to me like that and then expect me to carry on as if nothing 's happened . |
| 7 | ‘ It would be marvellous if The Committee were to win the National , ’ Scott said , ‘ for the two owners have been immensely patient and have let me get on with bringing the horse back to his best after he had been off the course for two and a half years . ’ |
| 8 | Jeff Hammond , of Willis Corroon , said the service would provide the means of dealing with these potential threats to businesses enabling them to get on with their main task — providing quality products to an ever more aware consumer market . |
| 9 | ‘ I found I got on with him reasonably well . |
| 10 | Apart from that , how d' ya get on with Julie ? |
| 11 | How d' ya get on at nursery ? |
| 12 | How d' ya get on at the dentist ? |
| 13 | ‘ I might have expected you to hang on in there like a limpet , ’ Rourke said with a tight grimace . |
| 14 | We suggest you go on to Patagonia . |
| 15 | Liz has let you get on with it . |
| 16 | ‘ It must be nice living here , ’ I said , changing the subject , ‘ but how d' you go on for shopping ? ’ |
| 17 | How d' you get on with my baby sister , Louisa ? ’ |
| 18 | I mean once you get er in the , say you get on in grain and you got leather shoes on , well you 'd roll but th when you got , when you got rope , these rope soles , cos they used to grip on the grain , they would n't slip about . |
| 19 | ‘ I want you to get on to your divisional headquarters and ask them to organise a search of the moor in the neighbourhood of Jordan 's farm . |
| 20 | ‘ No one has any more to say on that point , so I suggest we move on to the next one . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Now I suggest we move on to phase two . |
| 22 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 23 | She let him carry on with his stupidity and offered no elaboration nor explanation of her terms . |
| 24 | The path was stony ; that was why she let him hold on to her , and for no other reason . |
| 25 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 26 | Dolly let him get on with it in the usual way . |
| 27 | When he was naked , she helped him climb on to the desk . |
| 28 | He had been wonderful about her family whom he did not pretend to like , never made an issue of her going there and he let her run on about them when she got home . |
| 29 | Oh has he gone on to Matthew 's now ? |
| 30 | well , they want us to move on to developing the policies which have addressed the changed world . |