Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] on " in BNC.

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1 It was far too small for the three of us to live on .
2 " It sounds trite , but I have enough love for both of us to live on . "
3 Why should any of us carry on playing their game when they treated a man like that ?
4 But if there is n't one then nothing makes any difference , does it , and if there is I 'm sure it 'll all be far too spiritual for anyone to get in a huff over the way the rest of us carry on . ’
5 And he 'd got a strip of steel about four inches the half inch and he stuck at the back of his , i it was a long seat that were a four of us sat on with iron legs and they stuck it in the wood and you 'd flip it and it i , you know how it would sto
6 Most of us move on without daring to look back , so we never come to terms with the truth about these old relationships .
7 Whatever the inner pressures within us to hold on to a prejudicial attitude , when a Christian maintains a prejudice and fails to aim for its resolution , the problem may well be a conflict with God 's truth , of actually resisting God 's will .
8 Well , where I currently am is is saying that we should seek to revue the Commission 's overall boundaries with a view to us taking on some extra work , and that meanwhile we should suspend further recruitment .
9 No , it comes to us to pass on to you and we passed it to you
10 ‘ The only important thing ’ , he continued , ‘ is for us to go on writing our poems .
11 But there 's really no need for us to go on howling , is there ?
12 However he added : ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will . ’
13 ‘ It is important for us to go on keeping cool and keeping calm , as we will , ’ he added .
14 Er time for us to move on and talk to er Sam er who is there somewhere .
15 And you know I think if we can , that 's a big enough task for us to take on here .
16 This is too big a responsibility for us to take on our own .
17 He apologises for the mess and sets to work clearing books and bottles and brochures off the one cracked settee for us to sit on .
18 Oh we 've actually found a free seat for us to sit on .
19 There was a cement block two feet high for us to lie on , the toilet a hole without water , two worn blankets ( later we got a third one ) and one pair of trousers and one shirt per year .
20 It was time for us to get on with the climbing .
21 ‘ Fortunately for us they did n't and now , after this win , hopefully it will be a platform for us to build on . ’
22 The forest floor is safe at last for us to walk on !
23 To make the young and pensioners pay for prescriptions is equal to having Claymore mines for us to step on .
24 Now that 's an internal target for us to work on and for you to have fixed in your mind because everything above four thousand pound you will get forty five percent commission instead of thirty .
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