Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] on [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Burrows and Hunter 's research indicates that many landlords are trying to force pre-1988 tenants out of their properties so that they can either move in new tenants , sell with vacant possession or sell on to other landlords . |
| 2 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 3 | Circles , straight lines and zig-zags can be chalked or painted on to a hard surface for children to walk , run , jump or skip along . |
| 4 | He can not forbid the Common Law Courts to try an action ; but he can forbid a man to bring it , or to go on with it , or to take advantage of the judgement which he has got , and can put him in prison if he does not obey . |
| 5 | After lifting from a chair or helping on to pan , give resident maximum privacy . |
| 6 | On occasion there were more serious charges where preliminary hearings were held and the case either dismissed or passed on for trial at a higher court . |
| 7 | The ten most frequently occurring ( from a corpus frequency count ) are ordered and can either be presented to the user , or passed on to further stages of analysis , depending upon the implementation . |
| 8 | Items recovered are either reused or passed on to recyclers . |
| 9 | ‘ In total , he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirit which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 10 | ‘ In total he received around £12,000 of cigarettes and spirits which he had given away to business colleagues or sold on through his business , ’ said Roger Dutton , prosecuting . |
| 11 | In a similar vein , Dr M in Department B said that the first year is concerned with ‘ settling in and acquiring practice , and acquiring a certain body of common reading which can then be appealed to or built on in subsequent years ’ . |
| 12 | The little town was packed with milling crowds , but many of these were parents , come to collect their sons ' wages before they either went back to work or moved on to another farm . |
| 13 | Football was never an entirely respectable sport and from the outset crowds swore and shouted , occasionally threw things or charged on to the pitch . |
| 14 | Effective measurement requires detailed knowledge of the properties of phenomena which are to be reflected or mapped on to some mathematical system . |
| 15 | It 's at the top of Geal-Charn that you must make the decision to go back or carry on to Carn Dearg . |
| 16 | They can be massaged into the skin , or dropped on to a cloth or pillow to be inhaled . |
| 17 | Under this pressure , all ordinary human ambivalence and doubt is outlawed : adopters become guilty or angry when the relationship does not proceed according to the fantasy or reality of ordinary parenting ; children suppress their fantasies of an alternative life with birth parents — or hold on to that fantasy all the more tenaciously — and birth mothers , in particular , are pushed into a denial of their own experience and feelings . |
| 18 | Perhaps even more importantly , few of these authors in fact attempt to understand the implications of the expressive order ; how the classes and class-based processes which they emphasise are appreciated or acted on by the people concerned . |
| 19 | But his attitude he 'd been taught to get on and do things so that he would be painting the back of the house or going on with his hobby or doing jobs on the car . |
| 20 | Bryony come and stand over here or hang on to the buggy whichever you want to do . |
| 21 | Do you combine it with the weekly ‘ big shop ’ at Sainsbury 's , wait until you fall ill or hang on for the January sales ? |
| 22 | After all , the weather does not normally stop you getting to work , playing golf , or getting on with the rest of your life . |
| 23 | If you were sick or unemployed ( provided you sent in sick notes to your Social Security office or signed on at the Unemployment Benefit office ) ; |
| 24 | This is the time when most parents retire to a comfortable chair or get on with their other jobs . |
| 25 | Write your favourite joke or riddle on to a small piece of paper and put it inside your cracker . |
| 26 | So it will tend to pull and it almost definitely is either reaching or pulling or holding something or holding on for your life , |
| 27 | Many hot-spot plants are aromatic and , since patios and terraces are usually paved , this quality can be enhanced by allowing plants to trail or spill on to flagstones — which get hot in the sunshine — so that the aromatic oils which give them their scent are literally vaporised and perfume the air . |
| 28 | Dr Edwin Pugh , director of public health medicine , said : ‘ Most accidents occur when children are in the street or straying on to the road as parents we must be completely vigilant . ’ |
| 29 | You can stay here or go on without me , ’ said Fenella , returning the stare very straightly . |
| 30 | in exactly the same way as the Suffolk Punch would get down or stoop on to its knees in its efforts to draw a full or heavy load . |