Example sentences of "do [adv] [verb] on [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was now unhappy living there , did not get on with the son 's girlfriend , and wanted her money back so she could live elsewhere . |
| 2 | On it were the words : ‘ Do not go on to the moor . |
| 3 | Do not hold on to the interviewer 's hand for too long as this signals overfamiliarity . |
| 4 | ‘ We do not leap on to the table for our food . |
| 5 | To provide an illustration , a child who gets into trouble is much more likely to come before a court if he or she is from a poor home and has parents who do not get on with the welfare authorities or the police , than if his or her family is prosperous , respectable and willing to co-operate with the police and social services . |
| 6 | In the absence of more detailed evidence we can only speculate whether the more vocationally , or instrumentally , motivated applicants are , the less willing they will be to consider other , alternative courses and institutions if they do not get on to the course they wanted . |
| 7 | It is useful to have trays with a non-skid surface and a raised rim , so that small objects do not slip on to the floor or out of reach . |
| 8 | Wicket-keeper Fothergill did well to hang on to the ball low to his right , especially as the whole team went up in jubilation before the ball had reached his gloves . |
| 9 | " It should have been in her handbag , because the shopman said she did n't go on to the pillar-box to post anything . |
| 10 | The local Garda had been sent to Ashford Castle to protect Reagan , and they did n't get on with the CIA at all . |
| 11 | ‘ He and Marius did n't get on at the time . |
| 12 | You do n't go on to the next bit till you 've worked that one out . |
| 13 | But you must have , you know , do n't ramble on about the same thing , right , cos , for , for , for any more than a couple of sentences , cos then , you know , you c start entering into sort of diminishing marginal returns very , very quickly on these short answer questions , what you want to , do is sort of say a sentence about as much as you can rather than go into in depth discussion about erm , any particular aspect . |
| 14 | Do n't hold on by the reins whatever you do . ’ |
| 15 | There 's the odd few that do n't get on with the teachers . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't get on with the teacher . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ There may be benefits for us too — if we do n't get on with the new rector he may only be here for five years , ’ said Miss Duff . |
| 18 | A judge has ruled that a weekend music festival CAN go ahead — but only if performers do n't play on through the night . |
| 19 | If the play did end at this point , the real anticlerical joke would be that the Interludium does not go on to the successful trick as the audience might have expected and the clerk might have hoped . |
| 20 | As well as lines , Sumitomo had to install filters at each end of the lines to check that traffic that ought to be kept on the LAN does not disappear on to the WAN . |
| 21 | She does n't hold on to the sheet . |
| 22 | We think that it conserves services , that it has searched out the vast majority of efficiencies that we can find within this council and that it does n't pass on to the poll tax , council tax payers the fruits , I mean it does pass on the poll tax or council tax payers the fruits of how we have achieved savings and efficiencies over the last couple of years . |
| 23 | If the manager does n't get on with the band , the whole thing collapses . |