Example sentences of "could [adv] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | middle-class people , rich people , go elsewhere ; they go and see their GP , they have a wider network of people that they could perhaps draw on ; and if they do n't they have the nine-to-five freedom from their children , the release from the pressures of having kids around ; they have boarding schools which are a legitimate way of getting rid of our children if you have the money to do it . |
| 2 | Hareton inherited nothing from his father , and could only stay on at Wuthering Heights as a servant , working for the man who had been his father 's enemy . |
| 3 | A rule book from the hospital in 1917 said all patients had to be discharged within four weeks of admission and could only stay on if absolutely necessary . |
| 4 | But they admit that these babies had not achieved complete and independent toileting as they could only hold on to their eliminations for a few minutes and needed help to undress and get on the potty . |
| 5 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 6 | We could only carry on like this for so long , and it all depended on how well we could sleep during the day . |
| 7 | He was committed and could only stumble on . |
| 8 | United manager Alex Ferguson could only look on enviously . |
| 9 | For years she could only look on and sympathise with Lady Spencer as the ‘ spiteful stepmother ’ stories about her grew unchecked . |
| 10 | At my tender age , I could only look on . |
| 11 | Manager Alan Lockwood was forced to bring in a number of young faces and he could only look on agonisingly as they struggled against more experienced golfers in gusting winds . |
| 12 | Nicholson wanted to loiter with the man who — in his eyes — could pluck with ease a flower he could only look on at a distance . |
| 13 | From the 1760s , moreover , some of the British secretaries of embassy in Paris and Madrid were also accredited as minister plenipotentiary : they could thus carry on the business of the mission quite effectively in the absence of its head . |
| 14 | LESSONS could soon carry on all year at Darlington College of Technology in a bid to make education available to people from different walks of life . |
| 15 | It 's always the programmer — it 's very , very seldom the computer — and if I could just go on for a minute , I feel it 's essential that young children , particularly in the primary schools , get used to using hardware and programing , so that they will see the computer as part of their normal lives , like reading and writing and anything else they use . |
| 16 | If you could just hold on to them my son wid pick them up when he 's hame . |
| 17 | Then I could just get on with living . ’ |
| 18 | We could easily move on to a project exploring other aspects of Victorian England . |
| 19 | Thus a query and its settlement could easily drag on for hours . |
| 20 | Since it was the only nationwide law enforcement agency when McKinley got killed in 1901- making three presidential assassinations in forty years — it was the only group that could easily take on the job of bodyguarding future presidents . |
| 21 | Do you do you think erm your father when he started the shop in twenty six , would ever imagined that it could possibly go on to the the end of the century ? |
| 22 | In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ . |
| 23 | So what is incorporated in there , is the minimum that you could ever survive on in terms of running a totally enabling authority . |
| 24 | Such events , however , were not very frequent — a whole year might pass without one — and so the only additional earnings he could usually rely on were his winnings at the weekly bridge school . |
| 25 | But they could also switch on a constitutional warning light about future treaties , as yet unwritten , calling for still closer European integration . |
| 26 | He had a lot to learn about operating methods from the people on the shop floor , but he could also pass on to them the fruits of his university education . |
| 27 | Well , my , my memory right , you go down into , into like a , the ground floor and the top of the , like the bottom of the next floor is about that sort of height , but there is a wall up there sort of thing , which erm , I , I must , which you could probably get on . |
| 28 | Well I could I could er I could probably take on that task if you wish , cos it 's easy enough to actually write letters to people , cos I can just ask my secretary to do that . |
| 29 | She said she was going to make a Will saying they could both stay on , without paying rent , as long as they wanted to . |
| 30 | You could both stay on in your respective jobs . |