Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If they want me to stay on after the World Cup I will consider that .
2 How d' ya get on at the dentist ?
3 ‘ No one has any more to say on that point , so I suggest we move on to the next one . ’
4 ‘ Before , we used to give people the tools and let them get on with the modelling , ’ Mr Wise explains .
5 Let me press on to the important subject of the council water charge which is set out in schedule 11 .
6 Her eyes closed , she turned her face away , released her hold on my cheekbones and let me go on into the hall .
7 Here 's your mother , now let me get on with the work . ’
8 Frau Nordern heaved up her brief-case and let it fall on to the desk with a satisfying , rather official thud .
9 Having discussed coloured water and clear water briefly let us move on to the reality of the situation as we find it when we arrive for a session .
10 ‘ Then let us get on with the business that must be discussed . ’
11 Before the Secretary of State rattles on yet again about European figures , our minimum wage policy and our alleged doom and gloom , and as he has proved himself completely unable to say anything constructive , will he today at least ask the Prime Minister to chuck it in now , call an election and let us get on with the job ?
12 Let us get on with the scheme because there is no reason for further delay .
13 Let us get on with the Irish debate .
14 Okay I know we moved on to the next piece last week we will start again on that tomorrow .
15 AI workers are , by and large , naive materialists and mechanists , and for them those are not positions to be justified , but simply assumptions that allow them to get on with the job of constructing mechanical analogues or simulations of ourselves , who are , in Minsky 's memorable phrase , ‘ meat machines ’ .
16 Further inland , you find yourself climbing on to the moors , which are another haven for wildlife .
17 People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be .
18 People who live in towns donlt understand what goes on in the countryside.It 's hard for us to explain why this great tradition should be preserved , but it is n't the barbaric activity it 's made out to be .
19 The nuptial pads on a male frog 's feet enable him to grip on to the females tightly when mating .
20 There 's er a collar and a what they call a which is a protein tube and then it has various spikes at the end that make it stick on to the outside of the bacteria .
21 Given all these considerations , some supposedly empirical , but others more clearly normative , Schumpeter concluded that the proper role of the people was to choose their rulers through competitive elections , and then leave them to get on with the business of governing .
22 I 'm sure that Ruth searches her heart , she , she may of made her decision lightly way back to go with Ruth er , to go with Naomi but not now , its a heart searching decision she makes , the choice before her , do I go back or do I go , do I go on , do I go back to Moah with its familiarity with all the things I am aware of or do I go on into the unknown with my mother in law and with her god Auper makes a choice and she goes back and Ruth had , Ruth says no and she makes the commitment and she says there , in verse sixteen , do not urge me to leave you or turn back from following you , for where you go I will go and where you lodge , I will lodge , your people should be my people and your god my god and its those last few words that makes all the difference , your god will be my god , I will not be a stranger there , I will not be an alien there , I will be part of your people , and the only way she could be part of Naomi 's people was for Naomi 's god to be her god , that was the thing that kept , that was , that was the common denominated should all of Naomi 's people , because they all belonged
23 After all the usual questions about the game in progress , Lillie was asked : ‘ How do you get on with the England team , what sort of blokes are they ? ’
24 How do you get on with the dreaded ?
25 How do they go on in the senior school .
26 I think he went on to the parapet and the tocsin was sounded to make him run .
27 When I fight I go on to the end , as I did in 1926 . ’
28 Find a good nanny and then help her get on with the job of looking after your children .
29 A high-speed intellectual roller-coaster ride quite likely to toss you out of the car at the turn of the next page — or at best have you clinging on by the fingernails .
30 ‘ What have you got on under the leather stuff ? ’
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