Example sentences of "[vb infin] on [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She loved the way you could stride on to any stage with that easy cat-like walk of yours and instantly dominate the place . |
| 2 | Prominent advocates of ratification included EC Commission President Jacques Delors ( who declared on Aug. 28 that he " would not stay on for another mandate if the " no " vote won " ) and also both the RPR leader Jacques Chirac and the UDF leader Valéry Giscard d'Estaing , although many RPR and UDF members were opposed to ratification . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't think he will stay on in that role , ’ Mr Smith added , ‘ but we will consider the future in our own time . ’ |
| 4 | Right how much should we take out of this just to learn and concentrate on for all of next week ? |
| 5 | All brood parasites show a range of fascinating adaptations in support of their unorthodox life style , but the best-known and most fully studied is undoubtedly the European cuckoo which is the species we shall concentrate on in this chapter . |
| 6 | If your players do n't latch on to such throwaways first time , too bad . |
| 7 | He would hang on for that . |
| 8 | may as well er hang on to that and that . |
| 9 | Right , can hang on to that for me ? |
| 10 | Okay that 's , you 'd better hang on to that one and I 'll |
| 11 | Oh could you hang on to that lot a minute . |
| 12 | She longed to get home , to question her mother , but her brain would not let her hang on to these indulgences . |
| 13 | Can we hang on to these ? |
| 14 | Can you just hang on to those while I I 'm push Bryony a bit . |
| 15 | Few would have dared to predict in the late 1960s that duvets would ever catch on in this country , but today it would be hard to find a British household that does n't have one . |
| 16 | By this time I was feeling very friendly towards them and I might have said something to the effect : " If you will just mosey on down this trail ( meaning the main road between Cambridge and Huntingdon ) you will come to Alconbury , some 15 to 16 miles away . " |
| 17 | The Collector estimated that at this rate they might carry on for another two or three weeks . |
| 18 | Rather than carry on with such negative action , John and Colin decided to do something more constructive and let the general public know just what their activities involved . |
| 19 | I ca n't carry on with this indecision . ’ |
| 20 | We 'll carry on with this another time . ’ |
| 21 | we can carry on with this next week , as , as you see , we 've touched on a big topic , so we 'll , we 'll leave it to you to introduce next week 's discussion , whatever way you think fit , erm , that raises other issues which you want to talk about . |
| 22 | N C V O will carry on with this vital role , and enriching and enlarging the dynamics of the voluntary sector . |
| 23 | Let me carry on with this same erm position of John Major erm meeting the Russian president . |
| 24 | Okay well next week we 'll carry on with this material , looking at communication networks . |
| 25 | well , erm tis n't , she 's not , she wants the W R A F and nothing else and Sue said you ca n't be like that , you know , and er , so they 've decided that she 's got ta carry on with this Saturday job because she wo n't be able to go on the dole look , straight away will she ? |
| 26 | In the first place , the mass media are ‘ so deeply embedded in the [ political ] system that without them political activity in its contemporary forms could hardly carry on at all ’ . |
| 27 | However , there is a sense in which the particles that make up your body will carry on into another universe . |
| 28 | It was a special feeling to score , and hopefully I can carry on like that . ’ |
| 29 | She would bet her last pound that her Terry did n't carry on like that . |
| 30 | ‘ Even in Libya they do n't carry on like that , ’ he had said . |