Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got to carry on . |
| 2 | So got to continue on there on behaviours recognize people that you see around about recognize to be aggressive , some as assertive some as passive . |
| 3 | Unlike Schleiermacher , Hegel had a large number of followers who sought to carry on from the point he had reached . |
| 4 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 5 | Attention focused chiefly on strengthening the " European pillar " of the military alliance , although members failed to agree on how precisely this was to be achieved . |
| 6 | of the 16 students not seeking employment at the time of the survey , 14 planned to carry on writing up their theses , and two had arranged extended visits overseas . |
| 7 | What 's Karen got hanging on the washing line erm are we up are we up for erm the Bare Naked Ladies there I think we are . |
| 8 | The woman was wearing a red hat which Katharine impertinently asked to try on . |
| 9 | And there was a move to set it up again in the late Sixties , but that got sat on . |
| 10 | Mum took me back chez Hamish and Tone ; she agreed to pass on my expressions of contrition to my father . |
| 11 | I agreed to pass on the message as I was on my way to Make-up . ’ |
| 12 | She got picked on 'cause she was soft and she was daft . |
| 13 | At times like that , you call on your mates , and Kenny Everett kindly got us out of a spot of trouble there and agreed to come on at short notice . |
| 14 | A distributor or seller who was not the manufacturer ( e.g. a retailer ) could also be liable under the same principle if he was negligent , e.g. if he negligently failed to pass on to the customer a warning label ( ‘ Not to be taken internally ’ ) which he had received with a bottle of medicine . |
| 15 | The researcher stopped hanging on to the doorframe and stepped into the room . |
| 16 | So she left it all to herself and tried to carry on but it was too much for her . |
| 17 | In public , people tried to carry on with their lives , while at home they were starting to prepare for what was to come . |
| 18 | I tried to drive on , but he came at me with some story of having run out of petrol . |
| 19 | The most serious charge against the women 's union was that it proposed to carry on working if the men went ahead with their strike . |
| 20 | Corbett muttered and tried to go on . |
| 21 | I Branches without women rivals now sided with Glasgow in demanding a campaign to exclude women for good , while branches such as Edinburgh , who had to contend with the problem , tried to go on arguing for some form of recognition of women workers . |
| 22 | I tried to go on . |
| 23 | He later claimed that he initiated the demand for independence within one year : he asserted that he saw the Governor who promised to pass on his message to London . |
| 24 | But by the Tuesday night my throat had all dried up and , though I tried to motor on , I had to take to my bed on the Wednesday . |
| 25 | It started to rain when I was halfway to Porteneil , so I stopped to put on my ka-gool . |
| 26 | Then I realised this was unusual for an owl , because in the wild they tend to swallow their prey whole , so I simply stopped holding on to the chick and soon she was gobbling it up in one . |
| 27 | Leaving the court the families all tried to put on a brave face . |
| 28 | When they tried to stumble on , the heavy guns sank up to their barrels in the ground ; meanwhile the buzzards hovered overhead , hurling down great rocks on the struggling men . |
| 29 | Mr Brown , former governor of California , promised to fight on , but his lustre faded under the intense spotlight of New York . |
| 30 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |