Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not claiming that these are the ‘ best ’ ( whatever that can mean in terms of music ) solos I have ever heard , or even the best players — just the records that I 've kept on coming back to over the years . |
| 2 | Not s in a sense just by individual feudal landlords , but by landlords saying well I 'm , I 'm not really feudal anyway , that I 've moved on from that , I am a commercial landlord rather than a feudal landlord . |
| 3 | I mean this is just the areas that I 've touched on , and again it 's in many cases it 's only fringe . |
| 4 | ‘ In fact , it 's been one of the most exciting things that I 've worked on and it 's certainly changed my career . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Next day this camel drops to its knees and this guy gets on and signals that I 've to get on behind him . |
| 6 | School makes me nervous ; when I walk down the corridor I feel that everyone is staring at me , and because a lot of people know about my anorexia they think it their job to comment constantly on what I am eating or not eating , and how much better I look now that I 've put on weight . |
| 7 | So that 's why , you know , three different sorts of reminders that I 've put on the front of the calendar card . |
| 8 | That 's right , yes , because you see that 's the other thing , that I 've got on here . |
| 9 | this , this jumper that I 've got on now , green one . |
| 10 | As for Edward — it was clear that I 'd stumbled on to sensitive ground . |
| 11 | The one good thing was that I began to get on much better with my children . |
| 12 | Not that I regretted taking on the responsibilities , but it meant shelving any dreams I 'd had . ’ |
| 13 | I felt that I had moved on ; my attitudes , my experiences had moved on . |
| 14 | I 've often wished that I had stayed on and tried for university , but I was n't keen , and my family was n't the sort to encourage it . |
| 15 | He was so stiff , so shocked , that I had to go on . |
| 16 | I just trying to shake this flu that I feel coming on . |
| 17 | ‘ About my book , ’ he said , hesitating , ‘ I do n't know that I want to go on with it . ’ |
| 18 | Well I 'm still treasurer at the bowls club and I do n't feel that I want to take on two . |
| 19 | And it 's that part of the jigsaw that I want to concentrate on . |
| 20 | And you 'd also better take into account the fact that I want to get on with some work while I 'm here . |
| 21 | Those are the two other issues that I want to get on to in the last part of the programme . |
| 22 | ‘ I said when I came to Pittodrie that I wanted to go on playing for as long as possible , ’ Aitken said afterwards . |
| 23 | They took things that I wanted to pass on to the children |
| 24 | Because the practice is something in which people share , there are behavioural criteria for saying that someone has cottoned on to the use of an expression . |
| 25 | ‘ Another thing you 've forgotten , ’ Maria supplied waspishly , agitatedly conscious that she had to go on resisting him . |
| 26 | Then as he turned towards her the overhead lights that she had switched on to look through her dresses shone directly onto his face and she noticed how pale and drawn he looked , lines that were usually unnoticeable etched between nose and mouth , eyes almost feverishly bright . |
| 27 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 28 | She was thirty-nine now , and it was only in the past two years that she had put on weight . |
| 29 | She was still wearing the ugly straw that she had put on for morning church . |
| 30 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |