Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing that went on in the town was a secret for long . |
| 2 | As he passed Jenny 's door he paused momentarily , but shook his head at himself and went on down the stairs . |
| 3 | You 're not allowed to work on it and er that 's about it really , our programme , we 've decided to er start the pipe at the first position away from the tank construction and we 've , we 've set out , we employed a concrete layer and to lay out the pipes while we 're doing nothing and continue on with the so that while this gang is actually laying there 's only er six people in total . |
| 4 | She , Bambi , Nell and the Youngs made their way past me without looking at me and continued on along the corridor beside the kitchen , going to inspect the revised quarters which I knew were in the sleeping car forward of Filmer 's . |
| 5 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 6 | But the scent was so fresh , it was obvious the beasts would be unwilling to leave for a while , so Grant decided to ignore them and push on with the next stage of their operation . |
| 7 | She craned forward to look more clearly and saw it was Michael Swinton 's man , Punch , and that he was putting his horse , a great mangy thing , at the walls of the fields and leaping them and going on to the next as if he were steeplechasing . |
| 8 | At any minute they would see the two horses and they would mount them and ride on down the road and all would be well . |
| 9 | I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns . |
| 10 | It bucked wildly in the night sky , as if deciding whether or not Richard Branson had been lucky enough already , then righted itself and plied on through the night sky , swift and inviolate . |
| 11 | Well it was just a a guild for women who could take their knitting and have a cup of tea and discuss everything that went on in the Cooperative , you know . |
| 12 | The inhabitants inside certainly know everything that goes on on the outside of their windowpanes , however . |
| 13 | ‘ We will obviously monitor everything that goes on over the next 12 months ’ , he says ‘ We can only hope that when we do our assessments of need we can support that need with the finances we 've been given . |
| 14 | She told me she takes an interest in everything that goes on in the house , and that the party line was a great help to her . |
| 15 | Now clearly not everything that goes on in the body or mind is voluntary . |
| 16 | I ignored him and carried on with the cocktail party . |
| 17 | I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’ |
| 18 | Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field . |
| 19 | Watching Silas , the answer evaded her because his face remained expressionless , so she pushed the question away from her and got on with the job . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything . |
| 23 | I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate . |
| 24 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 25 | The difficulty with such a conclusion is that one can claim authenticity for anything that goes on in the classroom , including mechanistic pattern practice and the recital of verb paradigms , on the grounds that it may be conducive to learning ( type 3 ) and a feature of the conventional classroom situation ( type 4 ) . |
| 26 | Splitting ‘ But then Alison never discusses anything that goes on in the household . |
| 27 | Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street . |