Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In principle , they can fix their financial risks and get on with the job of dealing with the commercial ones . |
| 2 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 3 | He halted only for a second , enough to narrow his eyes and purse his lips into a look of utter disgust , as though a dog 's turd had grown legs and scurried on to his carpet . |
| 4 | And if it was important , to us and the country , why in the world were n't we snuffing out all those niggling grievances and getting on with the job of winning ? |
| 5 | Thomas shut his eyes and hung on with all his might . |
| 6 | She closed her eyes and dropped on to the bed , her heart pounding . |
| 7 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 8 | According to the Guild of British Tie Makers , men form ‘ strong emotional bonds ’ with their ties and hang on to them , hoping they will come back into fashion . |
| 9 | Now , can we cut out the delaying tactics and get on with it ? |
| 10 | He mumbled his thanks and strode on up the road . |
| 11 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 12 | It does not matter whether the golden spike is hammered in somewhere in England or in France or in China , so long as we can make an arbitrary decision , stop arguing about words and get on with the much more difficult ( but much more rewarding ) task of correlation . |
| 13 | Birkett shrugged his shoulders and went on with the fish cakes . |
| 14 | Nikos shrugged his shoulders and went on with his writing . |
| 15 | If either or both of her sons had decamped to the West , she 'd have shrugged her shoulders and got on with existence . |
| 16 | He looked at himself in his mind 's eye , squared his shoulders and carried on down the stairs . |
| 17 | Imagination contracted the distance and made it surprising to fall for so long , and then he was tearing through dogwood and elder bushes and tumbling in a shower of twigs and leaves on to the ground . |
| 18 | The Church should not be helping him up , but helping him over : false optimism does not need a helping hand ; it needs firstly the truth , and secondly love to salve the lost illusions and move on to a fuller humanity ( Walker 1986 : 214 ) . |
| 19 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 20 | Chamfer the top corners and nail on with 1–1/2in ovals , punched in and filled . |
| 21 | Hankin , who spent 18 months at Peterborough under John Wile before being released in 1985 , saw his young braves survive numerous corners and hold on to a point against a side who have seen off Liverpool and Newcastle at home this season . |
| 22 | Willie staggered to his feet and hung on to the side of the cart . |
| 23 | Travel during the summer months along the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains and continue on to Mammoth Lakes , a resort town where the overnight stay will be at the Mammoth Mountain Inn . |
| 24 | He supervised several Rhodes scholars , who obtained their doctorates and went on to successful careers . |
| 25 | Cut out a small black rectangle to form the ‘ Jolly Roger ’ and , using a little white fondant , cut out a skull and crossbones and stick on with a little water . |
| 26 | Most people 's income is taxed directly by their employers and handed on to the Inland Revenue , an arm of central government , under a system called Pay As You Earn ( PAYE ) . |
| 27 | Droplets of blood ran over his fingers and dripped on to the floor . |
| 28 | I scattered pennies and rode on like a young lord through Aldgate and into London . |
| 29 | His father was a German-Jewish refugee and his mother Welsh , but Wartberg was an aggressive anglophile , given to wearing tweed suits and blathering on about flower growing , law and order , the decline of British standards ( he had just obtained one for his best-selling valve ) , the prohibitive business rate and so on . |
| 30 | When Betjeman failed his Divinity exams at the end of his first year , it would have been open to his tutor to plead for him with the College so that he could resit these comparatively unimportant exams and stay on at the University . |