Example sentences of "it [conj] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then I 'll need to go and get my pads and my bandages so that I can put this right , you 'll need two of these for this bandage , the first one , you open out so that the pad is going to go into the palm of her hand and that over the top and she is going to grab hold of the other one like that , okay , now we 've got the wad in there and she 's hanging on to it , but it was the sterile part of the bandage as I undid it that went on to the wound , there is no time for dressing here is there ? |
| 2 | What process is it that goes on in our brains that enables us to recall people and past events ? |
| 3 | He got hold of it and hung on . |
| 4 | I put my forehead against it and hung on with both hands . |
| 5 | I state it and pass on . |
| 6 | I ignored it and carried on taking a long break . |
| 7 | There was only forgetting it and getting on with her present life . |
| 8 | I think it 's about time that you stopped blaming , and I think it 's about time that you started accepting re le responsibility that you are in it and getting on and making this council . |
| 9 | You know we 've corrected it and gone on about it and discussed it . |
| 10 | I ran towards it and flopped on to an old bench . |
| 11 | I was outraged by it and got on to Smith at once , saying that on no account should the students be flogged and that if the sentence was carried out I would leave immediately . |
| 12 | I knew I should ignore it and walk on , but I was too furiously angry . |
| 13 | When you 've drawn the first one , just put it back in the first bag and forget about it and go on . |
| 14 | ‘ Then why did n't you leave him to it and get on with your own life ? ’ |
| 15 | ‘ She 's a strong girl and now we just want to forget it and get on with our lives . ’ |
| 16 | It 's best with anything like that to dismiss it and get on with the game , ’ said Richardson , whose team were playing their opening tour match against an Australian Cricket Board XI in Perth today . |
| 17 | As the full , six-strong complement of the member 's Committee representatives were present , and obviously in support , he would quickly realise the arithmetic of it and press on to a vote . |
| 18 | Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything . |
| 19 | There is a major issue here , but I want to note it and move on to consider a different aspect of how race and class intersect . |
| 20 | Well , certainly people are satisfied with where we 've got to and want to draw a line underneath it and move on from there , and I think the prospect of going back to the constitution er issues , and they m once again being a key focus , I do n't think anyone in the Party , or outside the Party , sees the Labour Party wanting to devote itself to that at this time . |
| 21 | They clamp their jaws on it and hang on , martyring themselves for the sake of the colony . |
| 22 | She bent her head into it and held on to her hat . |
| 23 | Twice his quarry threw him backward glances , and on the second occasion seemed to slow his pace , as if he might stop and attempt a truce , but then thought better of it and put on an extra turn of speed . |
| 24 | And now , I I almost felt empty when she died , and I did n't have anybody to care for that really needed me all the time so I I , wanted to help out at a local dementia centre to try and make up for it and to pass on |
| 25 | Des lounges against it and switches on his walkie-talkie . |
| 26 | Spender 's and Auden 's world for example , as well as their views of it , were broken on the anvil of history ; that ideology was bankrupted — and they themselves acknowledged it and moved on . |
| 27 | When he built up one successful enterprise , he often lost interest in it and moved on to another . |
| 28 | I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate . |
| 29 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 30 | The barbarians had passed over it and moved on . |