Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We may have moved on from the steel nib and the blackboard , but are we not educating our children for much the same reasons as we were 50 years ago ? |
| 32 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 33 | Nenna thought of Tilda , who would certainly have got on to a late night bus and ridden without paying the fare , or even have borrowed money from the conductor . |
| 34 | He might have got on to the motorway . ’ |
| 35 | ‘ You 'd both have got on like a house on fire . |
| 36 | She could have stayed on in the country , until they found a place of their own , or even permanently , with William coming back at weekends . |
| 37 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 38 | He may have shimmied on to the scene a little late , but watch out for his name on the smoochy compilations for Christmas 1993 . |
| 39 | ‘ Besides , the fans did n't have to run on to the pitch . |
| 40 | Clive Barker ( 1977 ) of Warwick University has given new substance to the use of games in the training of actors and Brian Watkins ( 1981 ) has evolved a theoretical framework conceptually linking drama and game in a way which I shall attempt to build on in the next chapter . |
| 41 | He would probably have gone on to a ripe old age . ’ |
| 42 | Farrar was educated at the Rev. Thomas Arnold 's private oral school at Northampton and was a child prodigy who passed both the London University and Cambridge University examinations by the time he was 17 , and could no doubt have gone on towards a degree had he been inclined to do so . |
| 43 | The fact that a sociologist was witnessing the interviews make it all the more certain they would be conducted with scrupulous care , but there was no way he would be given access to the extra-legal deals which may well have gone on outside the interview room or later during a prison visit for ‘ write-offs ’ . |
| 44 | Sponge-fishing may also have gone on from the ports , though there is no direct evidence of it . |
| 45 | " I can show you how , " he promised , " but we would have to hold on to the back of a chair . " |
| 46 | How she missed that time — those few weeks , which now she would have to live on for the rest of her life . |
| 47 | The truth was that Mr Wolski was sad with himself , for he did not wish to stay on at the Zoo any longer . |
| 48 | I shall allow questions to continue until 4.30 , after which we shall have to move on to the debate . |
| 49 | He was informed that he would have to sign on for an extra year to join the guards , but he told his mother , ‘ I 'll stay as long as I choose . |
| 50 | I wo n't go banging on about the open fireplace again , but to my mind that was certainly one of them . |
| 51 | Some of the stories will now appear dated , and as the years ticked by a few of his novels did tend to veer on to the wrong side of the far-fetched . |
| 52 | If you forced someone to live on nuts and lentils they 'd go roaring on to the European Court of Human Rights or something . ’ |
| 53 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 54 | Two questions — how did you manage to get on with the people in this house ? |
| 55 | And that things would tend to drag on to the last minute and then they would start and then it would it go forward . |
| 56 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 57 | One may get displaced on to the other , or one , a problem in its own right , may be used as a defence against the other . |
| 58 | He could afford to hang on to the house until the market quickened . |
| 59 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 60 | By now , however , in the twilight of their existence on Earth , problems of climate were becoming more important , having finally a crucial bearing on whether they would continue to live on as a species , or succumb . |