Example sentences of "he [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's a man wivout pity an' 'e do n't care who 'e steps on ter get what 'e wants . |
| 2 | His remarkable doggedness led him to carry on regardless when two stink bombs broke everyone else 's concentration . |
| 3 | He is dependent on the permission of others for every step he takes , and if they so wish they can make it impossible for him to carry on any concrete activity . |
| 4 | This is more remarkable since in his own lifetime he had but few enthusiastic followers , nor did a school grow up around him to carry on his work . |
| 5 | The picture becomes almost a real person to the boy , replacing his dead grandmother and helping him to carry on when circumstances seem to be against him . |
| 6 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 7 | ‘ For the purposes of this Act an appointed representative is a person — ( a ) who is employed by an authorised person ( his ‘ principal ’ ) under a contract for services which — ( i ) requires or permits him to carry on investment business to which this section applies ; and ( ii ) complies with subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) below ; and ( b ) for whose activities in carrying on the whole or part of that investment business his principal has accepted responsibility in writing ; and the investment business carried on by an appointed representative as such is the investment business for which his principal has accepted responsibility . |
| 8 | Gedanken waited for him to carry on . |
| 9 | He had given up his voluntary work at St Dunstan 's in November claiming that it was ‘ too fatiguin' ’ for him to carry on with . |
| 10 | A licensing board may grant a provisional licence to the holder of any licence to enable him to carry on business in temporary premises during the reconstruction of his premises . |
| 11 | Norm then told him to carry on just playing for as long as he could . |
| 12 | Charlie felt indifferent as each of the decorated men was announced and his citation read out until he heard the name of Lieutenant Arthur Harvey who , the colonel told them , had led a charge of Number Eleven Platoon all the way up to the German trenches , thus allowing those behind him to carry on and break through the enemy 's defences . |
| 13 | When they lock the man up with Jim and John and Henry and Mary and Dolores and Grace — I hope they will give him access to books , with paper enough for him to go on making translations for us from the classics such as we have never seen except at his hands in our language . |
| 14 | He received an internal phone call from Muldoon , who told him that McGillicuddy wanted him to go on to Dublin immediately . |
| 15 | She told herself off for not being attentive enough , for not finding the right words to encourage him to go on . |
| 16 | She waited for him to go on |
| 17 | She wanted him to stop yet at the same time wanted him to go on in the hope that the lovely sensations would begin again . |
| 18 | Augustus Melmotte , the rich entrepreneur hero of the book , feared his debts would not allow him to go on living anywhere , and killed himself . |
| 19 | I waited for him to go on , but Reid said nothing more and it left a moment of awkward silence between us . |
| 20 | She waited for him to go on . |
| 21 | She told him to go on ahead , that she did n't want a ride . |
| 22 | ’ His courage wavered as the two of them continued to stare at him , each daring him to go on . |
| 23 | They all wait for him to go on , while appearing as if they do not care whether he goes on or not . |
| 24 | She only wanted him to go on dancing till he dropped . |
| 25 | Folly hardly dared breathe , willing him to go on . |
| 26 | She wanted him to go on , but he did n't , so she simply sat and dreamed and let her mind go floating out into the grey April morning towards the gulls and the sky and the sea . |
| 27 | He wanted his son to be a champion , and he did everything he could to force him to go on racing against his better judgement ! ’ |
| 28 | Amused query in her eyes , she indicated for him to go on . |
| 29 | He simply wanted him to go on sitting there . |
| 30 | Her heart began to beat a little quicker and she waited for him to go on . |