Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We will consider these questions below before moving on to controls in sections 4.3 and 4.4 . |
| 2 | Nationally , few MPs think that they will gain much from chuntering on about the drains … but I just wonder if they are not wrong . |
| 3 | In any large , structured company , some people are better motivators and better at getting on with the work force than others . |
| 4 | That 's fine , but you now know this will happen , and you know how to do it — just by carrying on with this Inch Loss Plan diet and the Maintenance Exercise Programme which will have the effect of continually improving your shape . |
| 5 | Trainees should obtain nine points or more before moving on to Goal 4 . |
| 6 | The court heard that Nichol then drove her home before going on to another girlfriend , Leoni Hogg , whom he had previously lived with . |
| 7 | I waved aside her gratitude , being much more keenly preoccupied by the difficulty I was having in making myself stand upright without hanging on to something . |
| 8 | If the current yield on the CTD bond exceeds the money market interest rate , the bond will be delivered on the last business day of the month , because the short earns more by holding on to the bond than by delivering it and investing the proceeds in the money market ; otherwise the bond will be delivered on the first business day of the month . |
| 9 | Do you think it 's really worth going on with this idea ? " |
| 10 | And the thing about Fingers was always black now with holding on to the thingummy and then putting in drifts , and hammering , your fingers was get er drift was always on a in a a pan a wee pan with oil in it , drift was always full of oil and you stuck it in the hole . |
| 11 | I got back to Durham today after staying on in Leeds to watch the Villa match ! |
| 12 | Just past South Cadbury is Cadbury Castle and you can take a diversion here before going on to Sutton Montis and Queel Camel . |
| 13 | It just so happens that Paul had to make his visit there before going on to be decapitated somewhere else . |
| 14 | The days were truly apocalyptic ; sadly , many of the commentators and reviewers , the would-be art leaders , were merely apoplectic ; not least in fastening on to his overt sexuality , their criticisms of him shielding their own neuroses . |
| 15 | And manager Joe Kinnear last night reported that John Fashanu was in agony after pulling his hamstring again after coming on as a substitute even though he was ‘ only about 10 per cent fit . ’ |
| 16 | But instead of getting on with the revolution , which Lowe believed was Wilson 's historic duty , Harold had immediately ‘ sold out ’ to the capitalists by adopting right-wing policies approved by NATO and the International Monetary Fund . |
| 17 | In school , George was described as ‘ aggressive … he wanders about instead of getting on with his work … he wo n't conform … he 's like his brother … generally he disturbs other children . |
| 18 | Instead of getting on with the business of making toilet water , he spent his time on the racecourse and worse . |
| 19 | kept checking up on people 's like erm capabilities as well instead of getting on with his own job he kept checking up on their them all as well . |
| 20 | Apparently it belongs to this boy Svend because it was he who suggested they go to Copenhagen instead of staying on in Roskilde when the pop festival ended . ’ |
| 21 | Why does not that rule go in 1992 instead of limping on until April 1993 ? |
| 22 | A common mistake is to try to use lift on the way back instead of gliding on through it at a sensible speed . |
| 23 | Involvement of the valve of the aorta ( the large main artery , emerging from the heart ) , can cause this valve to become inefficient , so that instead of closing fully after each pumping beat of the heart , it remains partly open , allowing a proportion of the blood to return to the heart instead of passing on round the body . |
| 24 | Instead of pushing on to Normandy to muster an army and then return to Maine in force , he switched direction and went home to die . |
| 25 | ( 20 December 1777 ) So instead of moving on to Paris before the winter set in , the Mozarts remained in Mannheim . |
| 26 | Mungo Stone had the sensation that instead of threading on to the horizon , at any moment the ever-narrowing rails might simply come to a dead end among the trees . |
| 27 | Perhaps we should think about it , instead of drifting on from day to day . |
| 28 | To take advantage of the high rate of return on securities , people buy them now instead of holding on to their money . |
| 29 | If instead of holding on to the property X had given the property to Y no inheritance tax will be in point provided Y farmed the property ( or X survived the gift by seven years ) but in that case there would have been no capital gains tax uplift on the death of X. |
| 30 | Instead of going on to the pillar-box , Auntie hesitated a moment , then took shelter from the rain in the doorway of a gent 's outfitter 's , just by the bus-stop . |