Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 Torturers were either trained policemen or soldiers , or they were special commando units , or they were trained in USA or Panama , or they simply carried on the tradition of civilian torture .
2 At the close of a moot the judge or judges declare which counsel or side performed best ; he , she or they then go on to the next round .
3 and I just get on with my job .
4 Did you notice I did refrain from discussing my hands and I just get on with the game !
5 I was walking along with my girl and I see my old man and I was scared , you know , smoking , but at the same time I did n't want to throw it away because my girl was there , you know , and she 'd see it , and I just kept on walking and my old man stopped and said to me , ‘ Give me a light ’ , and I give him a light , and he said , ‘ I 'm away to the shops ’ , and I was , you know , thinking , I can get away with this .
6 perhaps Charley 'll crack one day , while Maurice and I just carry on malingering .
7 and I still kept on making Freudian slips —
8 Staffa , Iona and I never get on well together in the height of the tourist season , I know exactly what JTR meant in saying ‘ the route has been described to death ’ .
9 So I went to a very good secondary school but I was in the A one stream right the way through and I was always within that top three of that A one stream and it gave me confidence and I really got on .
10 Besides , the sorts of holidays Rose and I usually go on would n't have been up-market enough for George . ’
11 ROBBIE And you just went on teaching .
12 When he gets you he beats you up for leaving him ; you go back and start working for him again ; then you try to get away from him ; he finds you again and you just go on like this all the time .
13 And she just went on saying it .
14 There was no central heating in the Old Rectory and she seldom switched on the two-bar electric fire in her bedroom , knowing how worried the Copleys were by their her bills .
15 I inwardly breathed a sigh of relief as the bus pulled up to the stop and we eagerly clambered on , searching for a seat near to someone we at least knew the name of .
16 A , a curtain is used to screen you off , and if it 's a very cold day we 've got infra-red heat we 've got a lamp above the he , the couch and we actually put on the infra-red heat so we warm you up first before you start , before we start so your body is feeling nice and warm and you 're feeling relaxed , we have nice music playing and it does help right , with the tension that builds up on the shoulders .
17 ‘ The roof restoration began in 1982 and we then went on to the rest of the building repainting emblems throughout the length of the station , ’ he said .
18 So thank you very much indeed , and we now move on to , briefly to Earlier on our progr in our programme we received that Tony could not be with us today , but we are delighted to welcome in his place Sir Leonard I B M's Director of Personnel and Corporate Services .
19 And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited .
20 We hang around shuffling our feet and making phone calls and they just get on with it ! ’
21 All the wisdom of er in , in writing and doctors and everything else says oh it all varies you know some do this and some do that some go straight through in a regal dignified way and they just carry on into relatively old age , you know , smooth as relaxed , nothing to worry about , away .
22 And they still keep on sending not just one flash in the pan you know .
23 His name was Dave Brown and he eventually went on to establish one of the first clubs in the country to be licensed as an openly gay establishment .
24 The Ideas , Kant says , " have an excellent , and indeed indispensably necessary , regulative employment , namely , that of directing the understanding towards a certain goal upon which the routes marked out by all its rules converge , as upon their point of intersection " .2 And he immediately goes on to add : " This point is indeed a mere idea , a focus imaginarius …
25 The black and there was all cement drawn and everything and we had a big table in there and he just carried on he did n't make shoes and he died when he was er , well he had a bad stroke and , and he was in the other room for seven years .
26 computers and that and er he left it and he just carried on talking about this that and the other , and he says right I 'm going and he went and he left the game , he 'd brought it down for the kids , he did n't say , you know
27 And he just went on and on and on .
28 Thank you , child ! ’ and he just went on looking at me .
29 Three and he just came on and played the piano .
30 The bus turns the corner and it gets stuck in some traffic for a bit and he just carries on shouting again and again .
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