Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | driving along , keep to the left except when road signals or markings indicate otherwise or when you intend to overtake , or turn right , or when you have to pass stationery vehicles or pedestrians in the road , allow others to overtake you if they want you , you must not drive on by the side of the road . |
| 2 | Ron said that I should not go on to the track and kill myself because I might pull a hamstring . |
| 3 | Even so , this is a shortened Session , and as we must wait until next year for the start of a fourth Conservative term in office , we must now get on with the measures contained in the Gracious Speech . |
| 4 | It may or may not resolve on to the note it temporarily replaces . |
| 5 | They may not catch on in the north-east ! |
| 6 | Tell her you know how she feels , but do n't give in to her demands , as she 'll soon latch on to the idea that throwing a tantrum gets her what she wants . |
| 7 | And as everything slipped away she could only hold on to the thought that somehow her murderer knew who she was . |
| 8 | He could not get on with the believing Jews from Eastern Europe whose religion and traditions he neither shared nor understood . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Perhaps we could now move on to the question of Sir Conrad 's recent involvement in the club 's affairs ? ’ |
| 11 | After a little while , Oliver was so cold that he could n't hold on to the banisters any more . |
| 12 | They laughed so much , they could n't go on with the interview . |
| 13 | Could n't go on with the performance even with the understudies because of the police coming in . |
| 14 | The Italian dirty tricks department worked overtime as Galvano 's management tried to scream ‘ no contest ’ , claiming a head clash caused the badly cut left eye that meant their man could n't go on after the third round . |
| 15 | I could however moan on about the likelihood of anyone ever wanting to listen to this collection straight through at one sitting , or that Miss Battle could have done rather more in the way of characterising each aria ( and her diction is also hardly crystal clear ) . |
| 16 | We had a punchcard in class the other day which would not catch on to the ‘ cogs ’ and allow itself to rotate . |
| 17 | Indeed , both he and Valentine see the needs of teleworking providing additional momentum behind the delivery of solutions that would have an equally telling effect on the use of technology that would still go on inside the office . |
| 18 | He would even walk on into the Hollywood Hills , beyond any bus line , for the sake of a half-hour voice lesson . |
| 19 | But since we ca n't carry on with the experiment now we 've got to leave that till later on . |
| 20 | You ca n't hang on to the past . ’ |
| 21 | If you like your job but ca n't get on with the people with whom you have to work , consider asking for a transfer to another department . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , that makes sense , but if it means takin' the engine out and havin' engineers crawlin' all over the place so we ca n't get on with the job of takin' on stores and equipment — ’ |
| 23 | My brother and I were able to attend these from a very early age , and take part in them , though they would sometimes go on until the early hours of the morning . |
| 24 | I will not go on about the statistics . |
| 25 | It 's when they start getting round to looking at our facility agreements , start looking at how we 're organizing , the councillors , even if it 's the Labour Council as it is Manchester , will soon cotton on to the , in the , soon cotton to their , their , their potential power in terms of threatening our ability to organize and UNISON wo n't actually be that far behind persuading them to do , to do that because they want to see the G M B getting smashed in local authorities up and down the country which means as far as I can see , we need some resources coming in to assist in our branches with local authority membership pretty damn quick , because otherwise we , come July the first , we 're gon na find we 'll be up against it . |
| 26 | ‘ We are not going to stop our style of play , we are a free-running side who want to score tries and even if we come unstuck against good sides with well-organised defences we will still keep on with the kind of game which we know pleases the fans . ’ |
| 27 | On earlier models , the mylar sheet will always move on during the left to right row , whichever side the carriage was on when you started . |
| 28 | If , as expected , Mr Papandreou also fails to form a government , the mandate will automatically pass on to the Communists . |
| 29 | Arguments about this change continue to rage , and will probably burn on for the foreseeable future . |
| 30 | She will now go on to the next leg of the Boots Customer Service Award — the district semi-finals . |