Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 I 'll stay with you and hold on to the guns .
7 I ignored him and carried on with the cocktail party .
8 I waved to him and passed on into the lecture room . ’
9 Caspar took no notice of him and carried on through the wood towards the field .
10 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 .
11 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 ?
12 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 .
13 Just mention it and move on to the weather , football , the SDP and whether it will turn political , anything .
14 I was bored stupid by it and moved on to the marketing department of an American conglomerate .
15 Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject .
16 Nearby , the siren of an ambulance cries like a mad baby , its pitch rising as it passes us and heads on down the street .
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