Example sentences of "[vb infin] [verb] on [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Friends and relatives tell me I should have stopped by now , and I know I do n't want to carry on through the toddler years .
2 ‘ I do n't want to go on about the amount or work — everybody works hard .
3 ‘ Do you want to go on with the lesson , or stand about talking all day long ? ’
4 Yes if she 's coming out you mean you do n't , you do n't have to do it all tonight she wan might want to be talking about erm her grading a lot so you ca n't expect her to do any work until she 's got that out of her system she might want to go on for an hour or so .
5 and Euston , I believe all those parish councils have written to the county surveyor , erm , wilfully the er H G V ban and saying how successful they think it is , now the proposals in this paper do n't have any particular effect on them , but I would want to pass on to the officers here in case it has n't erm quite registered , but this ban has been very much welcomed on the northern section of the A ten eighty eight where although it 's not a formal ban the affect on villages particular such as
6 However , the other category of liability for personal injury or death which the party in default can seek to pass on to the innocent party is that relating to claims made against the party in default by third parties , who have suffered death or personal injury by reason of the negligence of the party in default .
7 When at the top he was disappointed to find no flag , but with some cautious experimentation discovered that he did not need to hold on to the pole — he could float .
8 I just could n't wait to get on with the athletics .
9 In recent years IBM has introduced four-year ' term contracts ' for some graduate entrants , like a commission in the service , to give fine training and work experience to people who will expect to move on at the end .
10 Martha , who had decided to stop thinking about the inconvenience they were causing , asked Woodie not to stop at the boats ; they would like to go on to the New King 's Road .
11 And he said , well would you like to carry on with the contract ?
12 However , I would like to hang on to the notion of homology in a qualified sense .
13 We would like to hold on to the VHS copies for a further 3 weeks .
14 Lucy had no intention of reverting to the former subject , so she said in a determined voice , ‘ I would like to get on with the job .
15 So we will er if we may er not ask you to introduce your document we we 'd like to get on with the questioning .
16 Having given you food for thought , I 'd like to move on to a discussion of the criteria and can I say right now that I think it would be right and proper to limit our discussion this morning to the criteria .
17 They would not have pressed on with the kind of arguments they actually did use , probing the statute , obsessed with the question whether one decision was more consistent with its text , or spirit , or the right relation between it and the rest of law .
18 They pay thousands and thousands for the Van Goghs and Modiglianis they 'd have spat on at the time they were painted .
19 I must have fallen on to a sharp stick , I thought .
20 And the traditional Conservative chairman 's bash at Central Office may have to go on without the chairman : Chris Patten , busy in Bath , may not get back in time to drink with his team .
21 Therefore they would have to carry on with the remaining group .
22 We 'll have to carry on with the Week of the Lion tour if only to give there good people something to do .
23 If Dire Straits had n't been so successful , would you have carried on as a circuit band , or would you have gone back to teaching or journalism ?
24 ‘ Had it hit the concrete or had the ground been less soft , it would have carried on after the collision and headed straight into our warehouse , ’ said Mr Bagni .
25 But I 'm thinking , I 'm think I 've got this terrible feeling I 'd have to come on with the princess , if we 've just got married
26 Had the Wessex novels been written earlier , when places off the beaten track were inaccessible , or nearer our own time , when we have become sated with effortless mobility , ‘ Wessex ’ might not have caught on in the way that it did .
27 Rubie 's Choice appeared to blow up at Marks Tey and should have come on for the race , while Zoe Turner , on her home track , can choose between As You Were and Royal Sting .
28 Quick Reaction finished well clear of Bigsun at High Easter , but the latter will have come on for the race , while Shimshek bypassed Ascot on Wednesday and must have every chance here .
29 Fred Clasper may have moved on to a new fighting ground but he , and men like him , left behind their destructive trade-mark on Britain for more than a decade .
30 On average , a sixteen-year-old recruit to farming will have moved on by the age of twenty-three — ; usually to the building and construction or road haulage industries .
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