Example sentences of "on and " in BNC.
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| 1 | But we can say nothing to these things you know Jackson , we must jog on and be content with the jingling of the bells , only d — it , I hate a dust , and kicking up a dust , and being confined in harness while others ride in the waggon , under cover , stretching their legs in the straw at ease , and gazing at green trees and blue skies without half my Taste . |
| 2 | His parents did not get on and parted during the war , which put an end to the old hierarchic world of Amnersfield , where you were not to look at your masters when they came up the drive , but to hoe on regardless . |
| 3 | But you may not actually learn much , simply because the main object of the group will not be to help you but to get on and do the play , relying on the skills available and hoping that the audience will give adequate support . |
| 4 | Agents do n't want deadwood and if they are interested in you it is because they feel they can sell you into the market , so that you can go on and make money both for yourself and them . |
| 5 | The trouble is , wrote Harsnet , that if you start with this insight it is difficult to go on and then the energies , the needs and desires , turn inward and eat you up . |
| 6 | Now I have finally begun , he wrote , I have only to go on and the end will arrive . |
| 7 | The hardest thing , he wrote , is not to go on and on . |
| 8 | The hands in my pockets had measured and scraped , put on and taken off . |
| 9 | When it is too late to go on and too late to start again . |
| 10 | He went on and on about it until I could cheerfully have strangled him . ’ |
| 11 | My mind just goes on and on … |
| 12 | If you remember , I 'd had trouble enough when I was fifty convincing people to take me on and now at fifty-nine or sixty there were hardly any employment opportunities left open to me . |
| 13 | If this bit does refer to you , open your eyes , take a look around you , see what 's going on and do something . |
| 14 | After all , we have been reaping rewards from the vegetable garden for months : the soil ca n't go on and on providing if its own storehouse is not replenished . |
| 15 | You should gather seeds from the best plants only , if possible selecting and marking them early on and removing all but one or two of the first , fattest seed-heads to conserve as much energy as possible . |
| 16 | Instead of carrying on and making the downwind landing without incident , he flew on to give himself room to land and then tried to turn around into wind for the landing . |
| 17 | They become quite unconscious of what they are doing for a few seconds , and yet insist that they want to carry on and learn to fly . |
| 18 | These instruments should be switched on and checked before reaching cloud base . |
| 19 | The chair has to come to rest at the bottom of the stairs and you need room to get on and off at both ends . |
| 20 | Some have swivel seats to make getting on and off easier . |
| 21 | ‘ Out on the ground ’ these moves are seized on and discussed avidly . |
| 22 | She adored greasers , saw a motorbike as a symbol of freedom:just climb on and go . |
| 23 | This never happens , of course , so poor decisions do surface as the day wears on and fatigue levels increase . |
| 24 | Cameron was shaking with laughter , looking on and making no move to help . |
| 25 | Cameron passed it by , the man could stew in his choler for a while , and when the dark came on and his servants and womenfolk grued at every owl-call or salmon-splash from the river , his defiance would burn lower and he would give his name . |
| 26 | We are within the Constitution as it stands , nothing illegal is going on and we claim the right to be treated as democratic citizens assembling as we are free to do . |
| 27 | She walked on and on , imagining herself utterly alone wearing nothing at all . |
| 28 | ‘ After I split up with Godfrey they went on and on about how I should find someone else . |
| 29 | Recall that at the beginning of this piece I briefly discussed what the representational theory of the mind has got right : that thoughts are not simple responses , reactions or reverberations to environmental stimulation — contrasting this with the case of the thermostat which automatically switches on and off at pre-set temperatures . |
| 30 | Remote switching means that the extractor is switched on and off by operating the power tool it is connected to . |