Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [to-vb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To begin with Charlie was not quite sure what was happening , but he liked the sensation so much that he just continued to hold on to her , and after a time even began to press his tongue against hers . |
| 2 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 3 | I just had to sign on at the police station once a week — no surety , unopposed bail , no problem at all . |
| 4 | When talking about grief a frequent comment is , ‘ We never used to have this sort of fuss made in the good old days : we just had to get on with it ! ’ |
| 5 | At Morrison & Gibb , according to one survivor , the girls went up to a special room to learn all the types , and another former Morrison & Gibb " learner " remembered that " you were given a card with the lay of the case " and just had to get on with it , practising until you could pick up the type correctly . |
| 6 | Mind you , I did n't have time for a refresher course , we just had to get on with it . |
| 7 | No question of a divorce and marriage , she just had to get on with it . |
| 8 | Mm nobody we just had to get on with my work . |
| 9 | they were enchanted by Finchingfield , but we soon had to move on to Thaxted , home of Dick Turpin . |
| 10 | This arrangement , cleverly yet quite simply managed , would give him a couple of hours to get on with what he desperately wanted to get on with : to climb into bed with Downes 's beautiful and doubtlessly over-sexed wife , Lucy , and get his bottom on the top sheet before his time ran out . |
| 11 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 12 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 13 | Surkov always had to hold on to his temper . |
| 14 | ‘ The farmers probably tried to get on with farming and making a living while all the fighting was going on , ’ said Hilary Wade . |
| 15 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 16 | He even wanted to carry on after hearing about his problem , but the Doctors made it clear that would almost certainly be fatal . |
| 17 | But she passionately wanted to get on with him ; she made every effort to entertain and to captivate , for in proximity he was even more dazzling than from a distance . |
| 18 | Yet Gloria herself never seemed to hold on to more than the bare essentials that they had in their two paper carriers . |
| 19 | So you actually had to go on to a smaller boat ? |