Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now that has been reached , he will only want to get on with the future . ’ |
| 2 | At this juncture I merely want to hold on to the notion that workers are pressed , for a variety of reasons , into a dependent position of an infantile-like nature , which is felt to be unalterable , in many industrial enterprises . |
| 3 | ‘ We very much want to get on with the renovating it . ’ |
| 4 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 5 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 6 | Garry would dearly love the club captaincy back but he is realistic enough to know he just has to get on with the game . |
| 7 | You 're not now , oh right okay that 's fine , the er , what I want you to do instead of writing , I mean two hundred words is , is probably feel nothing , but in fact because we want er it to be absolutely right , what I 'd like you to do this time is just write an appraisal , the contents thing er that we had last time we had if you like , content and appraisal and audience , but audience was only er , a sentence or two , I 'd simply like a , an appraisal , what your view of this is , if you 're writing that part of the review , so we 're only thinking in terms of a hundred words now , er what I 'd like you to do is to distribute yourselves over the laboratory , erm go wherever you want but do n't start talking with people , it 's not the , not the Cribben thing I just want to get on with the exercise that I 'm concerned with and write your appraisal , but obviously put your name on it and er if we meet back here thirty five minutes is that long enough for under a hundred words of excellent quality ? |
| 8 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 9 | But the Gypsies say they just want to get on with the local people . |
| 10 | NORTHANTS might just struggle to hold on to the NatWest trophy they won on Sunday . |
| 11 | Speedie was just trying to get on with the game . |
| 12 | She just had to hold on to the thought that , although he believed he knew who , he did n't know where . |
| 13 | I just had to sign on at the police station once a week — no surety , unopposed bail , no problem at all . |
| 14 | She just wanted to collapse on to the bed she had spotted in the corner and sleep for about a week . |
| 15 | This is not Norma 's fault , she 's probably quite a nice dear who never wanted the fame , never wanted a prime minister for a husband , just wanted to get on with the washing up back in Huntingdon . |
| 16 | A couple of miles down the road at London Irish they still want to hold on to the Irish connection , even if that leads to qualification by reading The Irish Times . |
| 17 | He might be banished during cleaning , but he was still permitted to jump on to the bed . |
| 18 | Swindon insist there 's been no formal approach by Cheslea and still hope to hold on to the architect of Monday 's triumph . |
| 19 | It was the smell as much as the taste which convinced me that I was still Joe Bodenland , and still destined to struggle on among the living . |
| 20 | The final recipient has still got to get on with the work based on this small amount of information , only now with DOPACS he has a time limit . |
| 21 | it gives you more time to get on with the job of managing your business . |
| 22 | Low house prices here mean that even though Northern Ireland is bottom of the UK salary league with an annual average of £15,012 , people can still afford to get on to the housing ladder . |
| 23 | So we sort of like trying to hang on for the time being about the door . |
| 24 | Strathclyde 's Labour group also agreed to press on with the closure of two primary schools , Castlehill in Prestwick , and Dalmuir in Clydebank . |
| 25 | Sponge-fishing may also have gone on from the ports , though there is no direct evidence of it . |
| 26 | They had both planned to stop on in the Sixth , then at the last moment , half way through the summer holidays in fact , Sheila had announced she was getting a job . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So that really means going on to the Labour resolutions and the Liberal resolutions |
| 29 | I now wish to go on to the order concerning access . |
| 30 | I really need to hang on to the key , is that alright ? |