Example sentences of "and we [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | As in the UK , Christmas was slow to start , with sales at Hannas really taking off from mid-December — ‘ We had marvellous dry weather in the weekend prior to Christmas and we advertise on radio every year , which we find effective . ’ |
| 2 | It took some time to get entry , there were delays , long sessions of questioning and trouble with certificates but in the end it was sorted out and we got on a plane in April 1974 . |
| 3 | ‘ I once travelled on a train from Leeds to London with Shaun and we got on fine . |
| 4 | We were given a carrier bag containing a block of chocolate , crackers , corned beef , condensed milk , and we got on the train at Lime Street station . |
| 5 | And we got on this subject . |
| 6 | And we had on these shoes you know . |
| 7 | A researcher found out her favourite colour — a sort of purply-pink and we laid on her favourite drink — Perrier water with cranberry juice . |
| 8 | A group of alumni teachers came to a specially organised programme at the Schools Open Day this year and we laid on an ‘ Any Questions ’ panel so that they could grill our Admissions Tutors about what really goes on when they receive an application from a sixth former . |
| 9 | So in fact , we could have caused chaos on Oxpens Road by parking the bus on double yellow lines and making a big thing of getting handicapped children out , in and out of a specialised vehicle , but we , we actually prefer not to do that , and we go on the car park each week , and we pay the same fee as anybody else fee , pays because er we feel that that 's the right and proper place for us to be and the children to be , as they 're just ordinary members of the community with some special needs . |
| 10 | and we looked on it more as a party and a family gathering and showing everybody else that we were now committed and we 're going to spend the rest of our lives together . |
| 11 | I use the words I learned from Gan and the Rubber Dummy with my work mates and we get on fine . |
| 12 | I 've known him for about three years and we get on fine as friends . |
| 13 | Now it happens all the time , and there is absolutely no way at all with the best will in the world , and I 'm sure that we all mean it , that we get on the phones at nine o'clock , and we get on the phones at eleven o'clock , you just do n't work like that . |
| 14 | And we get on fine . |
| 15 | It changes every year so we go to these conference and we fight on our declaration of intent , on pensions , pensions reviews , that 's er reviewing a pension what we 're trying to get for the government of the day to review the pensions every six months instead of at the present every year . |
| 16 | Our sense of adventure only went so far and we relied on them to make the decisions . |
| 17 | There was you know little firms like that and yet everybody was in , nobody nobody would ever try and er and er and er and escape paying their contribution , but there was a law you could n't join a union till you were sixteen , that was the law then in then , but er when this strike came back and we came on strike in December , er we lads who was under age joined the union , they give us all six bob a week , the union did . |
| 18 | The technique learned during those years did n't fail him on this occasion , for he stepped forward , swung the bitel in such a way that to my amazement and also that of the onlookers , the disc just sprang up the standard and hit the gong with a resounding clang , whereupon Dad modestly collected his prize of a coconut , handed it to me to carry and we went on our way . |
| 19 | But we used to l I think I can remember going three times and we went on the train and we would have a big label with branch number seven , we were Walsall Wood and we were always told that , you know , you look on the sea front if you get lost , cos you 've got your name and who you belong to on card was all given out . |
| 20 | Er well that , well then we decided to get us , er one for summer and we went on the market and I think , was it a nine tog that 's all ? |
| 21 | and we went on that other side |
| 22 | And we left on the Friday |
| 23 | ‘ We have to take precautions to protect members of the public and we err on the side of caution . |
| 24 | And we realized on reflection , had Freda have not volunteered early enough , another lady who used to work at the station played , u plays for Nigel when he does his gigs . |
| 25 | just got into Wales and we camped on that flat land and then we went up the riv , oh we 've got it on the |
| 26 | She looked puzzled , and we walked on keeping step with one another , arm-in-arm . |
| 27 | Moonlight turned the grass to water and we walked on stepping stones to the far , shadowed wall . |
| 28 | And for everybody whose joined after , I think it was last January , we make sure that there is a job description , and that they are given one when they join , and we keep on file erm , but I know that there are loads of people who have been here longer than that some people have got them and they are out of date . |
| 29 | Besides that , it 's helping to maintain a high profile for the competition circuit and we depend on that for the continued success of our Crag-U-Like operations . ’ |
| 30 | when we erm , er when we were doing those projects we erm , we had a comments book and more , more people were in favour of them and saw them as an improvement to the town and so it needs something that 's really interesting actually , it 's er , erm the work 's department have said , as a result of those graffiti projects they can shift two officer 's from the graffiti team to the highway 's team , so it 's actually cut down on the work of actually clearing up unwanted graffiti , so it 's had a positive effect , so we , we 've got these two people work with the other people and we 've got Dorothy who 's working with , with black people and ethnic minorities in the town and erm for people who were here when this presentation was last given , er Robin who used to be in the local The Policy Team of the Local Government Unit is now actually a Community Development Officer , one of the decision 's , Robin use to do video work for the Authority erm , and we decided we asset whether the the need for that kind of , k ind of work to continue , and we thought on balance not erm and he now is running the music rehearsal space over at Latton Bush , that again is a project for young people , to enable , it 's a place where band 's can practice and that 's the problem in Harlow erm and er that 's really exciting project because it 's bringing in a lot of income for the Council as as well as providing the service that people want and , and it , I mean it is important at this time that we are doing limited projects where we are bringing in income , cos at , you know we estimate that erm we can get that erm rehearsal space properly resource , that project could be self financing , so your providing a service but your also getting paid , your getting paid for as well , so erm that is who we are now and were er , where were located , we have an open door policy as people will know . |